It’s bad enough when someone you know is brutally murdered. It’s worse when the guy was a paranoid schizophrenic helplessly bound to a wheelchair. Sam Acquillo and Jackie Swaitkowski tried to look after Alfie Aldergreen, as had others around the Village of Southampton, but now they were forced to wonder, what else could they have done?
One thing is for certain, Alfie’s killers are about to
know what it means to murder a friend of Sam and Jackie’s—Sam, a former corporate troubleshooter, former professional boxer, and all-around ornery bulldog; and Jackie, a defense lawyer often described as an avenging angel.
What Sam and Jackie don’t know is just how complicated and sinister Alfie’s killing will turn out to be. They’re introduced to an underside of their tony
village never before imagined—where friend and foe no longer cleave to familiar roles, and the past, at least
for Sam, becomes as inexplicable and treacherous as the present.
This sixth in the Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery series brings back Knopf’s ensemble of famously eccentric and involving characters, not the least of which is Sam’s mutt Eddie Van Halen. Combining beautiful watery settings with a unique look into the underbelly of the Hamptons, these are mysteries you won’t find anywhere else.
