High Season

About this book

Provincetown police detective Frank Coffin had been a well-respected Baltimore homicide detective. But when he started having panic attacks at crime scenes and fainting at the sight of corpses he was forced to pack it in and go home to Cape Cod where the most gruesome crimes confronting Ptowns five year-round cops were usually break-ins bicycle thefts and domestic disputes. After eight uneventful years a vacationing TV evangelist turns up dead on the beach at Herring Cove wearing a wig a pink-and-yellow muumuu and a pair of size-twelve pumps. Not to mention the raspberry-colored taffeta scarf strangling his neck. Ordinarily the Cape and Islands DAs office and the State Police investigate major crimes on the Cape but Ptowns powers-that-be are nervous. Coffins given a choice by the new police chief: investigate or lose his job. So Frank and his partner Officer Lola Winters an ex--army MP start out on the trail of a killer visiting the restaurants and tourist spots the evangelist and his wife visited by day and the drag bars and isolated trysting spots he might have frequented at night. As the body count begins to rise however it becomes alarmingly clear that this wasnt an isolated incident: A killer with an agenda is at large in Provincetown. Tracking a murderer is something Coffin hoped hed never have to do again and the experience triggers the same nightmares that plagued the end of his time in Baltimore. And if his life isnt complicated enough Franks girlfriend Jamie thinks shes being stalked by an overzealous suitor; his senile mother is stirring up trouble at the nursing home; and everyone in town has a theory about whos committing the murders. Funny sexy and dark in equal measures High Season is a mystery for anyone whos ever fallen in love with a seaside town.