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    Laguna Heat
    Laguna Heat
    Laguna Heat
    Audiobook9 hours

    Laguna Heat

    Written by T. Jefferson Parker

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 29, 2008
    ISBN9781423355366
    Laguna Heat
    Author

    T. Jefferson Parker

    T. Jefferson Parker is the author of numerous novels and short stories, the winner of three Edgar Awards (for Silent Joe, California Girl, and the short story "Skinhead Central"), and the recipient of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery (Silent Joe). Before becoming a full-time novelist, he was an award-winning reporter. He lives in Fallbrook, California.

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    • 3/5
      No one does delving into the sins of omission and commission in the old gentry like Ross MacDonald who seemed almost to have a patent on the genre. Parker does a successful emulation in Laguna Heat.

      Tom Shephard, recently retired from the LAPD where he was a decorated detective, but also the subject of widespread vilification for shooting a sixteen-year-old, has been hired to work as the homicide detective for Laguna Beach (annual homicide rate 0.5). His first case finds him looking for the killer of Tim Callahan who died with blue cobalt in his hair, $1000 waded up and stuffed down his throat, and a 32 oz piece of basalt smashed into his forehead. The trail leads to events that had occurred many years before with interlocking motives and actions that came back to haunt all of them decades later.

      It’s an engaging story if unrealistic. The idea that a homicide detective could just take off and follow his instincts and a suspect down to Mexico struck me as bizarre. Apparently, this was Parker’s first novel and it doesn’t have the polish of some of his later work, but with that caveat it’s better than a lot of other stuff being published.
    • 4/5
      Don't you just hate it when a book gets made into a movie and they put a movie still on the cover? The photo doesn't match the description of the lead character AT ALL, so it's a bit disconcerting. Overall this was a worthy read. It was easy to imagine a the California coastal communities of the 80's with the flashbacks to the 50's as well. But the best part was the ending--it's always nice when the drama is not neatly or predictably resolved.