Laguna, where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas - where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder, and blood-red secrets - where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence - with a fiery vengeance - and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery that reaches back across forty years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past, and sweats out a deadly truth in the sweltering Laguna Heat.

It's 1985 in Southern California, and the ghosts of postwar glamour, glitz, and greed still linger in swanky Laguna Beach. In the face of a series of grisly murders, Laguna Homicide cop Tom Shephard finds he must unravel a mystery that reaches back over 40 years--into his own past. Christopher Lane's clear, confident delivery provides easy listening as he creates the ambiance of a time when pay phones and cigarettes were part of life. Lane's crisp vocal impressions for the variety of people affected by the murders draw listeners deeper into the complex plot. Parker's debut novel comes roaring into the twenty-first century in audio format. With Lane as narrator, it was worth the wait. T.J.M. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

 

T. Jefferson Parker is the bestselling author of fourteen previous novels, including Storm Runners and The Fallen. Alongside Dick Francis and James Lee Burke, Parker is one of only three writers to be awarded the Edgar Award for Best Novel more than once. Parker lives with his family in Southern California.

Laguna Heat by T. Jefferson Parker
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