Nice, newly posted Booklist review: Preston Lomax put the filthy in filthy rich. He humiliated his sons, ignored his daughter, belittled his wife, and failed to pay what he owed his drug dealers. And he didn’t even consider paying the countless painters, plasterers, and construction crews who worked on his estate all summer. So when he’s murdered in his newly renovated Nantucket home, the suspect pool is understandably deep. New to the island, Police Chief Henry Kennis uses good old-fashioned detective work to narrow down who on the island had the most to gain from Lomax’s demise. With only an unarmed alarm and half-smoked cigarette as evidence, Kennis never lets up. Even after the case is seemingly wrapped up, one unsolved little detail draws him back in and places him in the middle of the worst moral dilemma of his career. Kennis is an honorable small-town cop whom readers will root for. Novelist Axelrod, son of screenwriter George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch and Breakfast at Tiffany’s), is a Hollywood veteran who currently lives on Nantucket Island, where he writes books and paints houses. --Karen Keefe
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:28:16 +0000
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