

Laguna Heat
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/29/2008
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 04/29/2008
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
T. Jefferson Parker is the bestselling author of fourteen previous novels, including Storm Runners and The Fallen. Alongside Dick Francis and James Lee Burke, Parker is one of only three writers to be awarded the Edgar Award for Best Novel more than once. Parker lives with his family in Southern California.
Tom Shephard is the new homicide detective in swanky Laguna Beach, California, and he's come to town from L.A. after killing a boy in a justifiable homicide. But the rep and the psychological baggage has followed him to Laguna Beach. Shephard has barely found his desk when he's called to the scene o......more
Laguna Heat is Parker's first novel, which is my favorite read--first novels. I did this backwards, becoming a fan of Parker, then searching out his first work. Yep, maybe his best. Fitzgerald said of Hemingway: Something happened to him when he was twenty, he wrote about it, and then just wrote the......more
This was a mixed bag for me. Parts of Laguna Heat were really well written and compelling, while other sections of the novel seemed scattered and uneven. The bad actually slightly outweighed the good and I kept wondering what I was missing considering all the glowing reviews I’d read. Sure, we have......more
Although I have read a lot of T. Jefferson Parker's novels, somehow I missed this one (published in 1985) and it was even made into a movie two years later! I didn't see the movie either. The story is captivating. A young police officer in Laguna Beach (transferred from L.A.) has baggage from his fo......more
I liked this first novel a lot. Tom Shepherd is a good cop who had bad luck. He solves a crime but has a big dilemma at the end. He winds it up in a satisfactory manner. I read this almost fifteen years ago and don’t remember details. I’ve read about five books by this author and didn’t care for a co......more