Henry
Kennis Mystery by Steven Axelrod ( #2&4)
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Overview: Steven Axelrod holds an MFA in writing
from Vermont College of the Fine Arts and as a former Hollywood screenwriter is
still a member of the Writers Guild of America. A father of two, he lives on
Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, where he paints houses and writes.
Nantucket Five-Spot (Henry Kennis Mystery #2)
Henry Kennis, Nantucket island's poetry-writing
police chief who will remind readers of Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone and
Spenser, works a second challenging case in Nantucket Five-spot. At the height
of the summer tourist season, a threat to bomb the annual Boston Pops Concert
could destroy the island's economy, along with its cachet as a safe, if mostly
summer-time, haven for America's ruling class. The threat of terrorism brings
The Department of Homeland Security to the island, along with prospects for a
rekindled love affair--Henry's lost love works for the DHS now. The
"terrorism" aspects of the attack prove to be a red herring. The
truth lies much closer to home. At first suspicion falls on local carpenter
Billy Delavane, but Henry investigates the case and proves that Billy is being
framed. Then it turns out that Henry's new suspect is also being framed--for
the bizarre and almost undetectable crime of framing someone else. Every piece
of evidence works three ways in the investigation of a crime rooted in betrayed
friendship, in~ delity, and the quiet poisonous feuds of small town life. Henry
traces the origin of the attacks back almost twenty years and uncovers an
obsessive revenge conspiracy that he must unravel--now alone, discredited and
on the run--before further disaster strikes.
Nantucket Red Tickets (Henry Kennis Mysteries
Book 4)
It's Christmas Eve on Nantucket and prominent
businessman Jackson Blum is about to live out his own version of A Christmas
Carol. No visions, no ghosts, just the past, represented by the exhumed
skeleton of his old partner Ted Coddington with a bullet from Blum's Ruger
pistol in its skull; the present, in the form of a horribly mistreated employee
who reveals Blum as the Scrooge he is; and the future, invoked by a family
crisis that threatens to ruin the rest of his life. Past - Present and Future,
all bumping on the same dark night of the soul.
Nantucket Police Chief Henry Kennis is
investigating the so-cold Coddington case with Blum as the main suspect while
he roots out a plot to rig the traditional five-thousand-dollar Red Tickets
raffle and struggles to close down a local opioid dealer who's selling to high
school kids from a house on Tuckernuck Island-a bleak vista of wild moors, dirt
roads, and unpainted homes a century old. "It's a time machine," says
Kennis. With a whaling history.
Henry's own son has been accused of cheating,
his daughter's been pushed out of the high school a capella singing group, and
his girlfriend's Christmas play is careening toward disaster. It looks like a
calamitous holiday for everyone.
All the scandals, tragedies, and intrigues of
the season close in on Blum and Kennis as the two of them face off amid the
carolers and colored lights. Finally, there's nothing to save the modern-day
Scrooge from his terrifying future but a decades-old secret scribbled on a
stolen slip of paper, and the uncertain mercy of the son he's lost. But it's
Christmas, and as the snow finally starts to fall on the decorated trees that
line Main Street, it's just possible that all sins will be forgiven and all
sinners redeemed.
