McMansion: A Ben Abbott Mystery (Ben Abbott Series) - Softcover

Scott, Justin

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9781590584705: McMansion: A Ben Abbott Mystery (Ben Abbott Series)

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ISBN 10: 1590584708 ISBN 13: 9781590584705

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007

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Ben Abbott, realtor and private detective, is so incensed by mammoth McMansions that he refuses to sell them. Ben is not the only citizen of Newbury who is provoked by over-sized, ugly, wasteful houses, however: Billy Tiller, Newburys greediest developer, is discovered underneath his bulldozer.

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About the Author:

JUSTIN SCOTT has written thirty thrillers, historicals, and mystery novels, including The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle. With many books set at sea, he has been called "the Dick Francis of yachting."
His main pen name is PAUL GARRISON under which he has written five modern sea thrillers including Fire and Ice, Red Sky At Morning, Sea Hunter, and The Ripple Effect, and the Paul Janson series based on a Robert Ludlum character,The Janson Command and The Janson Option).
Scott created the Ben Abbott detective series (HardScape, StoneDust, FrostLine, McMansion and Mausoleum) and was twice nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America.
He collaborates with Clive Cussler on the Isaac Bell series (The Wrecker, The Spy, The Race, The Thief, and The Striker.) He lives in Connecticut with his wife, filmmaker Amber Edwards.

From Booklist:

After Cincinnati detective Will Borders has a spinal tumor removed, he walks with difficulty and lives with pain, regretting not being the man he once was, particularly after he’s taken off homicide and made public information officer. But things change when his PIO predecessor, Kristen Gruber, an accomplished officer renowned as star of a local reality-TV show, is brutally murdered and sexually mutilated, and Borders is made lead detective on the case. Then two nursing students from nearby Oxford, Ohio, are murdered in the same fashion, and the serial killer starts targetting Borders and, indirectly, Cheryl Beth Wilson, nursing instructor of the victims with whom Borders reconnected after they met during his hospitalization. Borders pursues the killler even after being taken off the case for personal reasons, as his relationship blossoms with Wilson, and danger to both increases. Full of praise for its Cincinnati locale (in marked contrast to the author’s view of South Phoenix, the setting of his David Mapstone series), this sequel (to The Pain Nurse, 2009) confirms that the Will Borders novels have all the makings of a fine series. --Michele Leber

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