No Way Home - Softcover

Coburn, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451176758 ISBN 13: 9780451176752

Publisher: Signet, 1993

Synopsis

Small-town police chief James Morgan finds that two seemingly unrelated murders in his Massachusetts town have unleashed a hurricane of passion and violence. Reprint.

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews

This comes on like a police procedural, but don't be fooled: Coburn (The Babysitter, Goldilocks, etc.) is actually using homicide as an excuse to peer under the window shades of another of his New England towns. Why would a sniper shoot Flo Lapham, and incidentally cause her husband Earl to suffer a fatal coronary, as they sat inoffensively in their backyard? Bensington, Mass., police chief James Morgan figures the killer must have been aiming for Flo's daughter Lydia, a nurse who was informally engaged to Officer Matt MacGregor, as a way of getting at Matt. But Morgan takes time out from his legendary dalliances with the well-groomed wives of the Heights--Sissy Alexander, Arlene Bowman, and Christine Poole--to question earnest, irresponsible Rev. Austin Stottle, tightfisted Selectman Randolph Jackson, and the three no- account Rayballs (Korea vet Clement--a.k.a. Chico in his alter ego as a lounge lizard who brings moments of joy to aging ladies--his retarded brother Junior, and Papa, long suspected of killing his wife years ago). What he finds is enough untidy passion--even without the news that Lydia had turned down Matt's marriage proposal or the revelation of a bank scam involving his favorite cuckolds Gerald Bowman and Calvin Poole--to motivate a dozen murders. Instead of tracking down the killer, though, Morgan seems more intent on bedding down with Lydia. Weird. Forget the on-again, off-again plot: the real treat here is the fun-house gallery of sad-eyed loonies, from patently crazy Junior to the townsfolk, whose normalcy is only relative. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly

When a vicious murder rocks serene Bensington, Mass., the idiosyncrasies of small-town life take center stage in this diverting surburban suspense novel.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0451176758
• ISBN 13: 9780451176752
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352