High Season

by Loomis, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780312945213
• ISBN10: 0312945213
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Minotaur Books

Summary

In his debut mystery, Loomis combines razor-sharp wit with a driving plot, in this novel featuring Provincetown police detective Frank Coffin, who investigates the scandalous death of a television evangelist. Martin's Press.

Author Biography

Jon Loomis is the author of two collections of poetry, Vanitas Motel, which won the 1997 FIELD Poetry Prize, and The Pleasure Principle. Twice a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Loomis has also been awarded the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin, and has been the recipient of grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. He lives with his wife and son in west-central Wisconsin. High Season is his first novel. 

Table of Contents

Jon Loomis’s “auspicious fiction debut” (Publishers Weekly) is a fast-paced, funny mystery featuring Cape Cod cop Frank Coffin, who discovers that murder in Provincetown can be a real drag…

 “[AN] ENTERTAINING WHODUNIT…WITH AN EASYGOING SLEUTH.”—MARILYN STASIO, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Frank Coffin had been a well-respected Baltimore homicide detective. But when he started having panic attacks at crime scenes, he was forced to go home to Cape Cod, where the worst crimes were usually break-ins, bicycle thefts, and domestic disputes. That is, until a vacationing televangelist turns up dead on the beach wearing a wig, a muumuu, and one size-twelve pump. Not to mention the raspberry-colored taffeta scarf strangling his neck.

“[A] darkly comic Cape Cod caper…razor-sharp.”—Chicago Tribune

Frank and his partner, Officer Lola Winters, begin checking out the drag bars and isolated trysting spots the reverend might have frequented. However, when the body count starts to rise, ,it becomes alarmingly clear that a killer with an agenda is at large in Provincetown. And Coffin’s fears—like unwelcome summer tourists—have returned in full force…

“A model mystery, told in winning fashion.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch