Laguna Heat, T. Jefferson Parker
Laguna Heat, T. Jefferson Parker
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Laguna Heat

Author: T. Jefferson Parker

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/29/2008


Synopsis

Laguna, where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas—where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder, and blood-red secrets—where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violence—with a fiery vengeance—and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery that reaches back across forty years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past, and sweats out a deadly truth in the sweltering Laguna Heat.

About T. Jefferson Parker

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on November 26, 2011

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

Goodreads review by mark on June 08, 2010

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

Goodreads review by K on September 16, 2018

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

Goodreads review by Valerie on December 14, 2014

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

Goodreads review by Carolyn (in SC) C234D on June 02, 2018

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