High Season (Frank Coffin Mysteries Series)

Jon Loomis's "auspicious fiction debut" (Publishers Weekly)is a fast-paced, funny mystery featuring Cape Cod cop Frank Coffin, who discovers that murder in Provincetown can be a real drag... "[AN] ENTERTAINING WHODUNIT...WITH AN EASYGOING SLEUTH."MARILYN STASIO,THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Frank Coffin had been a well-respected Baltimore homicide detective. But when he started having panic attacks at crime scenes, he was forced to go home to Cape Cod, where the worst crimes were usually break-ins, bicycle thefts, and domestic disputes. That is, until a vacationing televangelist turns up dead on the beach wearing a wig, a muumuu, and one size-twelve pump. Not to mention the raspberry-colored taffeta scarf strangling his neck. "[A] darkly comic Cape Cod caper...razor-sharp."ChicagoTribune Frank and his partner, Officer Lola Winters, begin checking out the drag bars and isolated trysting spots the reverend might have frequented. However, when the body count starts to rise, ,it becomes alarmingly clear that a killer with an agenda is at large in Provincetown. And Coffin's fearslike unwelcome summer touristshave returned in full force... "A model mystery, told in winning fashion."RichmondTimes-DispatchLoomis, Jon is the author of 'High Season (Frank Coffin Mysteries Series)', published 2008 under ISBN 9780312945213 and ISBN 0312945213.