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    Summer of Fear
    Summer of Fear
    Summer of Fear
    Audiobook11 hours

    Summer of Fear

    Written by T. Jefferson Parker

    Narrated by Dale Hull

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    It's a scorching California summer, and cop-turned-crime-writer, Russ Monroe is on the hottest story of his career. A serial killer is massacring entire families in Orange County. The police are keeping the murders under wraps, but Monroe has a desperate "need to know."

    Why? Because the latest victim is his ex-lover. However, her murder is not reported and the next day all traces of the crime vanish. The only two people who think it ever happened are Russ, and the man he saw leave the scene of the crime as he arrived—a Laguna Beach homicide detective. Each suspects the other and they begin separate investigations to prove the other's guilt, exposing a terrifying web of greed, duplicity, and passion.

    "Hard to put down, harder to forget." —San Diego Union-Tribune

    "Like careening down a steep road without brakes." —Detroit Free Press

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 27, 2010
    ISBN9781441853677
    Summer of Fear
    Author

    T. Jefferson Parker

    T. Jefferson Parker is the author of numerous novels and short stories, the winner of three Edgar Awards (for Silent Joe, California Girl, and the short story "Skinhead Central"), and the recipient of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery (Silent Joe). Before becoming a full-time novelist, he was an award-winning reporter. He lives in Fallbrook, California.

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    • 5/5
      This is my second T. Jefferson Parker. Although I did not enjoy it as much as my first, it won't be my last. Crime writer, Russ Monroe is drawn into the case of a vicious serial killer in a hot California summer while his own wife battles her own war with brain cancer.
    • 3/5
      Summer of Fear. T. Jefferson Parker. 1993. Crime writer and ex-sheriff’s deputy Russ Monroe writes articles on and tries to identify a horrid serial killer while being framed for the murder of his ex-wife and tending to his second wife who has a brain tumor! This first person thriller holds your interest. The scenes with his sick wife and his estranged daughter add a poignancy that is not usually found in this type of novel.
    • 1/5
      this book is about some teenage kids going to an ocean. they do crazy stuff.at one pouint in time one of them get hurt because they jumped off a cliff to go in the water but when he jumped in he hit a rock. he survived but got hurt pretty good.because of that the kids are of fear and do.