Overview
When twin teenage sisters go missing at the height of tourist season, Laurel, Maine Police Chief Tim Nichols' summer of patrolling beaches and leading parades comes to an abrupt end. A desperate search for the girls takes him from seaside bars and abandoned farms to million dollar estates and cobbled-together shacks. As Nichols doggedly unearths scraps of information and deciphers a steady flow of half-truths, he finds a darkness coursing through ts Laurel's sunny, tree-lined streets. He races to piece together the girls' disappearance, knowing that doing so may tear the façade off his postcard-perfect town.
Full Product Details
Author: Albert Waitt
Publisher: Level Best Books
Imprint: Level Best Books
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.395kg
ISBN: 9781685122362
ISBN 10: 1685122361
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 15 March 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
In seaside communities up and down the New England coast, the mega-wealthy share space with too many people who are struggling to get by. Al Waitt knows this world better than anyone - the glamorous restaurants, the dirt road hovels, the sense of entitlement, the deep-seated resentment. More than anything, he knows the people. And in this book, at once riveting and elegant, Waitt brings it all together in an exquisite and explosive read. - Brian McGrory, The Boston Globe. Author of Strangled and The Incumbent As much as the landscape presents a unique regional quality to Maine, so do its residents. The eclectic mix of yuppie, townie, vacationer, and transplant are equally represented with cinematic prose and pulsing dialogue. Set against the backdrop of a small coastal town, this thriller grips you like a riptide, with Waitt encapsulating a tension that will make you devour this book with a page-turning fury. - Joe Ricker, Author of All the Good in Evil and Some Awful Cunning
Author Information
Albert Waitt is a writer based in Kennebunkport, Maine. His mystery, The Ruins of Woodman's Village, will be published in 2023 by Level Best Books. Waitt's first novel, Summer to Fall, was published in 2013 by Barrel Fire Press. His short fiction has appeared in The Literary Review, Third Coast, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Words and Images, Stymie: A journal of sport and literature, and other publications. Waitt is a graduate of Bates College and the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. Experiences ranging from tending bar, teaching creative writing, playing guitar for the Syphlloids, and frying clams can be found bleeding through his work.
