Sailor Home From Sea

Sailor Home From Sea from the journals of T.R. Macdonald: Westwood, CA. A UCLA Teaching Assistant is killed in a hit-and-run accident. But it's not an accident. It's murder. Chicago, IL. A therapist at a prominent mental health clinic kills his girlfriend and then turns the gun on himself. O'Hare International Airport. Mary Shaw, aka Kandi, and the love of my life, is fleeing the scene of the murder-suicide when she is hacked. Her electronic life is destroyed and she is trapped with no ticket, no boarding pass, no cell phone, and no credit cards. Huntington Beach, Surf City USA. An artist named Mike Macdonald receives death threats. He's my father. Mike and Kandi need my help. The problem is, they don't want it. In fact, they don't want anything to do with me. I'm down, but the surf's up.

"James R. Preston's Surf City Mysteries feature non-detective detective T.R. Macdonald, a Wall Street wizard whose personal brokenness, intellectual rigor and sense of rightness are the necessary tools for revealing an Orange County that is far darker than our local real estate promoters would like us to know.

"Preston's fans get his talent. They call Surf City Mysteries addictive, engaging, and spellbinding. They sometimes note that the series is darkly funny. I worry that they miss the one quality that makes them really great and terrifying: they're true." -- Will Swaim, Founding Editor/Publisher, OC Weekly