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Laguna Heat

By: T. Jefferson Parker
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
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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

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"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)
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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...

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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.

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This author has a talent for creating sympathetic, deeply nuanced characters that you really care about. Great story too. Highly recommended.

Fabulous

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