Steven P Marini – författare

Jack Contino moves to Cape Cod, takes a job on the Dennis Police Department planning to live life in the slow lane, but things speed up when a black man is murdered. It’s similar to a killing in Needham, but the trail leads to a South Shore white supremacist group.*DeeDee O’Hare and Judy Black are twenty-somethings sharing a summer rental in Dennis. DeeDee worked in a restaurant with the victim and has a boyfriend, Jared Wilkes, a local bartender with a roving eye…for Judy. Jack checks them out and learns that Jared has a checkered past calling for close scrutiny. He finds that Jared and the hate group have a link.*Mob figure Tommy Shea, Jack’s old nemesis, is in the mix, but how is he involved? Jack has to find out. It’s hard to solve a local murder when the Boston Mob has it in for you.

Multiple, bizarre murders are taking place in Dennis, MA, Detective Jack Contino’s new town. But they all have different signatures. One looks like a MOB execution, another is a brutal knifing, yet another is the shooting of a businessman. The killer evens has his sights on Jack’s wife, Natalie. Somehow MOB boss Tommy Shea, Jack’s longtime nemesis, comes into the picture. He often does. What is his link to these events?*Jack can’t get rattled, but his nerves are getting frayed. He’s never had so much at stake in a case. He and his colleagues, including old pal Leo Barbado, get on the trail and must put the pieces of this puzzle together.

Some people seek out connections. Jack Contino does it for a living. A cop knows how to link people and events. Maria Falcone connects people and places: the city of Boston, a rural New Hampshire college town, a Boston hit man, a college professor...*Jack Contino is a veteran cop with the Metropolitan District Commission Police Department.  He often works with the FBI; a gangland massacre puts him in pursuit of a killer, but the trail takes an unexpected turn.*Maria connects by leading a double life: college coed during the week; high priced call girl on weekends. A professor loves her. A mobster uses her. Her future depends on one of them.*Ben Secani learned to kill for his country in Vietnam and finds opportunity in the Boston Mob.*The action puts these people on a collision course, and the result changes their lives forever.

A ghostly legend is brought back to life when Martha’s brother, Bart, buys the old Ocean Born Mary house with his partner Auggie. It is a conflicted friendship. A woman named Teresa shows up, bearing a shocking resemblance to a picture of Mary’s ghost. She deals herself in on the action, winning over Bart. Her presence, however, adds to Bart and Auggie’s troubles. Martha grows suspicious of Bart and his business partners, believing it will lead to trouble. Bart gets in deeper than she could imagine and she needs her lover Sam Miller’s help. Like their previous adventure in Schmuel’s Journey, the two must outwit a killer to get at the truth.