High Season (Frank Coffin Mysteries)
by Jon Loomis
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Author: Jon LoomisEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-09-18
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Minotaur Books
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Book Review: Not your regular who done it - Not your regular cop hero either
Summary: 5 Stars
Having grown up on hard boiled detectives, I expect my heros to be 2 parts Sam Spade, 2 parts Harry Callahan and 1 part Sherlock Holmes. However, Frank Coffin isn't any part of those characters. Instead, he is a realistic depiction of someone who has lived a tough life doing a tough job. Coffin has a "history" that dates back to his days on Baltimore, PD. At crime scenes, he has flashbacks and panic atacks every time he investigates a new victim. Although this behavior might make you think he is weak, actually, it makes him perfectly human. In fact, I don't think I would want to know someone who could look at a murder victim and not be sickened.
But for me, the main character in the story, and the reason I read it in the first place, is not Frank Coffin. It is actually (in my mind) the town where the action takes place - Provincetown, MA. Having vacationed at the Cape for over 20 years, I think the author has captured the spirit and character of the locals very well. He makes it perfectly plausable that there would be tension between the real estate developers and the old time residents. Over the 20 years we have been going there, P'Town had evolved, and not necessarily for the better.
Like Donna Leon's books centered in Venice, Italy and Chris Grabenstein's books written with a New Jersey Shore flavor, Loomis has delivered an excellent novel that provides a well written story with a wonderful sense of place (my favorite type of mystery).
If you like crisp writing, a good plot, 3 dimentional characters and more than a few plot twists, you will enjoy High Season.
Summary of High Season (Frank Coffin Mysteries)
Provincetown police detective Frank Coffin had been a well-respected Baltimore homicide detective. But when he started having panic attacks at crime scenes and fainting at the sight of corpses, he was forced to pack it in and go home to Cape Cod, where the most gruesome crimes confronting P?towns five year-round cops were usually break-ins, bicycle thefts and domestic disputes.
After eight uneventful years, a vacationing TV evangelist turns up dead on the beach at Herring Cove, wearing a wig, a pink-and-yellow muumuu, and a pair of size-twelve pumps. Not to mention the raspberry-colored taffeta scarf strangling his neck. Ordinarily, the Cape and Islands DA?s office and the State Police investigate major crimes on the Cape, but P?town?s powers-that-be are nervous. Coffin?s given a choice by the new police chief: investigate or lose his job.
So Frank and his partner, Officer Lola Winters, an ex--army MP, start out on the trail of a killer, visiting the restaurants and tourist spots the evangelist and his wife visited by day, and the drag bars and isolated trysting spots he might have frequented at night. As the body count begins to rise, however, it becomes alarmingly clear that this wasn?t an isolated incident: A killer with an agenda is at large in Provincetown.
Tracking a murderer is something Coffin hoped he?d never have to do again, and the experience triggers the same nightmares that plagued the end of his time in Baltimore. And if his life isn?t complicated enough, Frank?s girlfriend Jamie thinks she?s being stalked by an overzealous suitor; his senile mother is stirring up trouble at the nursing home; and everyone in town has a theory about who?s committing the murders.
Funny, sexy, and dark in equal measures, High Season is a mystery for anyone who?s ever fallen in love with a seaside town.
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