What starts as a pleasant summer on Cape Cod for Doc and Mary Adams turns suddenly chilling. When a house guest is murdered in his bed-with the very pills that control his epilepsy-their son Jack is the prime suspect. After all, Andy had been Jack's rival both at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and for the attention of a beautiful whale watcher named Alice.
The evidence is too damning to ignore, but an enraged Doc knows his son is innocent. he sets out to prove it, and his only clue is that the real murderer must have been very interested in the victim's top-secret lab work...
Oral surgeon and sometime sleuth Doc Adams is especially motivated to solve a murder in which his own son is the prime suspect. Text and performance combine to create a slick surface with little underneath. The greatest fault is probably in the writing, which sounds like the mechanical stringing together of overworked formulas. Christopher Lane is a fairly competent young reader, but he doesn't bring enough richness or depth to Boyer's prose to lift it above the perfunctory. J.N. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Rick Boyer is the author of several Doc Adams mysteries including Billingsgate Shoal (for which he won an Edgar Award for Best First Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America), The Penny Ferry, The Daisy Ducks, Moscow Metal, The Whale’s Footprints, Gone to Earth and Yellow Bird. He is a long-time resident of Concord, Massachusetts, and teaches writing in Asheville, North Carolina.
