Murder on the Island
Murder on the Island by Jed Power is a mystery novel published by Dark Jetty Publishing on June 15, 2016. This edition spans 282 pages and is presented in English. The story follows Dan Marlowe, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation after a young waitress from Hampton Beach goes missing. When her body is discovered near his cottage, Dan finds himself the prime suspect and must navigate a web of unsavory characters, including a local motorcycle gang and a heroin dealer, to clear his name.
Readers will encounter a gripping narrative that delves into the complexities of crime and personal turmoil. As Dan attempts to solve the mystery, he grapples with his own anxieties and the challenges of his personal life, which threaten to pull him deeper into a world of danger. The novel explores themes of criminology and the hard-boiled detective genre, providing a vivid backdrop against which Dan must confront both external threats and his internal struggles.
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Things couldn’t be worse for Dan Marlowe unless he’d been found in bed with a dead woman. In this, the fifth novel in the Dan Marlowe series, Dan is asked to look into the disappearance of a young Hampton Beach waitress. But when the girl’s body is found buried in the dunes-on the Island section of the beach only yards from Dan’s cottage- he finds himself the prime suspect in her murder. To clear himself, Dan must uncover the real culprit among a cast of unsavory characters that includes a local outlaw motorcycle gang, a big-time heroin dealer, two sleazy beach pimps, and a scam artist restaurant owner. As if finding the killer isn’t enough to keep Dan dipping into his anxiety medication, his personal life is rockier than the beach jetty. His own fault, but if he doesn’t straighten it out, he may find himself a customer again at that little drug den on a dark back street of Hampton Beach. And that would be the end of Dan Marlowe.
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