The Hampton Affair - Softcover

Lardo, Vincent

3.29

48 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425174824 ISBN 13: 9780425174821

Publisher: Berkley, 2000

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The three very different worlds of East Hampton--the rich gentry, longtime year-round residents, and the middle class--collide in a power struggle over family secrets, land, and wealth that ends in murder, and detective Eddy Evans finds himself caught in the middle as he struggles to unravel the mess. A first novel. Reprint.

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About the Author:

After a successful career in advertising and public relations, Vincent Lardo now lives in the Hamptons. He is the author of The Hampton Affair and The Hampton Connection, as well as McNally's Dilemma and McNally's Folly.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A debut mystery, set in the Hamptons, in which the very rich and the very poor are seen as mutually explosive. Consider the case of young Galen Miller, for instance. Hes become so positively bedazzled by the glitter he confronts on a daily basis that its debased his value system, seduced him into believing there is no such thing as criminal behavior. To him, poverty is the only crime, and anything that works to fend it off is, therefore, justifiable. Even murder. As a result, Galen kills his conniving stepmother to keep her from cheating him out of his share of a million dollars. It's a nonexistent million, it turns out, a predictable delusion given the kind of fantasy world both Galen and his alcoholic father inhabit. Mark Barrett, head of those powerful East Hampton Barretts, easily leads the feckless pair astray, drastically overstating the potential value of the Millers' hardscrabble farm. Mark has his reasons, most of them acquisitiveas acquisitive as his reasons for paying court to Vicky, daughter of deceased billionaire Joseph Kirkpatrick. Never mind that Vicky is already married. Never mind that her husband Michael (a match for Mark in acquisitiveness) is on to his game. The thing is it's a game played by Hampton rules, which, it seems, are wildly permissiveextortion, perversion, and even murder all safely within boundsproviding the payoff is big enough. Lardo writes respectably, but his plotlines get tangled, his characters are mostly noxious, and who'd ever want to go near his Hamptons? -- Copyright �1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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