Nell Flynn has returned to Long Island, NY to bury her father, a homicide detective who has died in a motorcycle accident. Marty Flynn's detective buddies accompany her to the Long Island Sound to scatter his ashes. Nell has avoided returning for ten years, ever since a falling out with her father. Their relationship was strained by her mother's murder during her childhood and her father's continual drinking.
Nell, on medical sabbatical from the FBI, is asked by a young detective she knew from high school, to assist in a murder investigation that hints of a serial killer. A young woman has been killed, dismembered, wrapped in burlap, and buried in a state park, mimicking a murder one year earlier.
The details of Long Island and Suffolk County are well done. The books does a great job drawing distinctions between the Haves who populate the Hamptons, and the Have-Nots, who scrape out a blue collar life in the smaller areas of the island.
Nell begins to uncover a trafficking ring and corruption that implicates her own father. In investigating the case, Nell learns more about who her father truly was. The ending snowballs pretty quickly and involves some rather dramatic sequences that don't really fit the overall tenor of the crimes but don't alter the overall enjoyment of the read.
3/5 Stars
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