Parson's Lake

When retired cop Evan Fuller moves from California to remote New England where he plans to write a bestselling novel, he finds himself jolted into a serial rape and murder case. Although he tries to convince himself that he does not have the stomach for playing police detective all over again, Evan Fuller soon becomes the criminals' chief hunter. The disappearance of one attractive young woman soon leads him to suspect a group of smalltown friends, all respectable citizens, who seem to have been systematically abducting, abusing and murdering women during annual lakeside rituals for more than a decade. At first, Fuller looks at the facts through the eyes of the pro policeman that has become his alter-ego. But those very same facts suddenly become highly personal when it dawns on him that the rapists are after his own girlfriend Jenny. Set against the backdrop of Robert Frost's glorious White Mountains, Parson's Lake is written with an expert understanding of the disgusted determination that possesses a seasoned cop's mind when he finds himself confronted with the threat of thickening violence.