Laguna Heat Audiobook By T. Jefferson Parker cover art

Laguna Heat

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Laguna Heat

By: T. Jefferson Parker
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $20.00

Buy for $20.00

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel
Laguna: a place where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks; where the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas; where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder, and blood-red secrets.

It's also a place where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence - with a fiery vengeance - and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery. It reaches back across 40 years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past, forcing him to sweat out a deadly truth in the sweltering Laguna Heat.

©2008 T. Jefferson Parker (P)2008 Brilliance Audio Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedurals Suspense Thriller & Suspense

Critic reviews

"Laguna Heat will linger in the memory long after all the puzzle's pieces are finally in place." ( The Washington Post)
"Parker writes prose so hard-boiled he might have inherited Raymond Chandler's saucepan." ( USA Today)
All stars
Most relevant  
The delving deep philosophically into each situation got really tiring. Each body found turned into a whole page of how it made him feel. Metaphors galore. It made the story drag, you just wanted to get on with it! 3hours in i had to quit. I didnt even care WHO did it.

Droned on and on...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Is there anything you would change about this book?

There were times the story characters didn't seem to react to the situation in a believable way. I like twists and turns but this story was kind of flat for me and didn't build any suspense. I tried it two times and it just was not great.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

A different narrator may have been able to improve the book. It seemed a little slow...

Not as good as some of his other books.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This author has a talent for creating sympathetic, deeply nuanced characters that you really care about. Great story too. Highly recommended.

Fabulous

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.