Synopses & Reviews
During a bone-chilling snap of record cold weather, a series of enigmatic drowning deaths play out in a small summer resort community on Long Island's Shinnecock Bay. Quickly implicated in the death is a local college professor named Deacon Kane, himself recovering from the accidental drowning death of his only son years ago - recovering slowly, and with the help of alcohol and an addictive, messy affair with a married woman. As the police and several other interested parties watch his every move, Kane befriends a hypnotically alluring bartender named Collette and quickly continues his brutal downward spiral with little regard for self-preservation. Whether and how Kane is connected to the young victims are the questions everyone wants answered. And as it becomes clear that Kane himself may not know the extent of his own involvement, all must admit that something dark and sinister is at work in Southhampton. Daniel Judson has a virtuoso's touch and an uncanny ability to layer suspense, plot, and character study into an engrossing and completely surprising crime novel that will not soon be forgotten.
Synopsis
As a series of mysterious drowning deaths terrorizes a small summer resort community on Long Island's Shinnecock Bay, local college professor Deacon Kane, recovering from the accidental drowning death of his only son with the help of too much alcohol and a messy love affair with a married woman, finds himself the prime suspect in the crimes. Simultaneous.
Synopsis
On a night of record cold, a powerfully built man drives his white van to the edge of Long Islands Shinnecock Bay and sets adrift a dead body. An hour later, wanna-be PI Tommy Miller hears over his police scanner that the body of a young man has been discovered - it is the third body to be found in as many months - and rushes to the scene. The next morning, failed-writer-turned-college-instructor Deacon Kane is met at his office by two detectives investigating the apparent suicide-by-drowning of one of his students. And later that afternoon, Reggie Clay, a burned out PI discovers a clue that calls into question the official account not only of this boys death, but the deaths of two other boys as well.
Police suspicions quickly fall on Kane, who forms an uneasy alliance with Miller and Clay - and their mysterious boss, a man known only as Mac. Together these four race to unmask a killer who seems somehow to know Kanes mind better than Kane himself knows it, and in the process are drawn deeper and deeper into the underside of the Hamptons.