The Off-Islander

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Published by: Kensington
Release Date: September 24, 2019
Pages: 240
ISBN13: 978-1496723413

 
Synopsis

Boston, 1982. Private investigator Andy Roark has spent the past decade trying to rediscover his place in the world. In Vietnam, there was order and purpose. Everything—no matter how brutal—happened for a reason. Back home, after brief stints in college and with the police force, Roark has settled for a steady, easy routine of divorce and insurance fraud cases.

Roark’s childhood friend, Danny Sullivan, dragged himself out of blue-collar Southie to become a respected and powerful lawyer. Now he wants Roark to help one of his clients with a sensitive request. Deborah Swift, wealthy wife of an aspiring California politician, is trying to trace her father, last seen on Cape Cod, who walked out on her and her mother long ago. Other investigators have turned up nothing, but Roark’s local connections might give him an edge.

The case takes Roark to the island of Nantucket, tranquil in its off-season, and laden with picturesque charm. Yet even here, on the quaint cobblestoned streets and pristine beaches, Roark’s finely honed senses alert him to danger just below the surface. Nothing is quite as it seems. And the biggest case of Roark’s career may just shatter what little peace of mind he has left . . .

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Praise

“Readers yearning for a noir mystery in the vein of Mike Hammer or Sam Spade are in luck. Peter Colt has delivered just such a tale of intrigue…The novel spends nearly as much time exploring Roark’s inner demons from the Vietnam War and life afterward as it does with the case at hand, adding a deeply evocative perspective to events.”
—Bookpage

“Like Philip Marlowe—or Robert Parker’s Spenser—Andy has a sharp eye for telling detail and male haberdashery.”
— Publishers Weekly

“New England police officer Colt's first novel is a boozy pipe dream of a private eye's search for a long-missing father…[with] lots of attitude.”
—Kirkus

This atmospheric debut mystery should appeal to fans of the early works of Denis Lehane and Robert B. Parker.”
—Library Journal

“By the end of the book the reader has been taken on a long, exciting ride. We are told this is not the last of the Andy Roark novels. I look forward to the next one”
—Vietnam Veterans of America

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