Scott, Justin - FROSTLINE

[LJ Roberts]

FROSTLINE - G

Scott, Justin – 3rd in series

In quaint Newbury, Conn., real estate broker Abbott gets caught in a nasty land battle between two neighbors: cantankerous Vietnam vet Richard Butler, whose troubled, violent son, Dicky, has just been released from jail, and Harry King, a high-powered former diplomat and owner of Fox Trot estate, who wants Abbott to act as mediator in buying a sliver of Butler's property that juts into Fox Trot. King is creating a lake by damming a stream, but an explosion during a fancy lawn luncheon blows up the dam and turns the lake into a mud pond. In the sloppy remains, Abbott steps on parts of Dicky Butler's body. Since the local sheriff is a dolt, Abbott starts detecting.
I very much enjoyed the first two books in this series and was looking forward to this addition, first released in the UK in 1997 and has been updated. The main characters needed a bit more depth, the others weren’t very likable, but I still found myself reading straight through.