Evil at Its Ease

By James Coyle

Fogs of moral darkness haunt the sunny California landscape . . . Detective Timothy Walker has just taken on a case for client Molly Dugan, who is seeking her long-missing boyfriend Michael Sherwin, the father of her daughter. But getting to Michael requires tailing the six-foot-ten Terry Rose, about whom Walker has been duly warned: Rose specializes in snapping the limbs of anyone who gets in his way. But, as all is not what it seems to be, the path to Michael Sherwin is also strewn with an ugly family past of corruption, murder, custom-grown marijuana and other "hidden evils waiting to be born." His search for Michael Sherwin is also a search through the fogs of coastal California, its sun-baked central valley and the roots of the family history in the high deserts and mountains east of the Sierras. This is a California novel in its truest form and the layers of deception that Walker uncovers are very like the illusory fog and the sun-fueled mirages through which Walker steers his aging Mercedes in his quest for the truth about Michael Sherwin. Evil roams the novel not only in the menacing frame of Terry Rose, but also sits at its ease in the sumptuous estate of the Sherwin family and its enigmatic patriarch Jonathan Sherwin. It is up to Walker to find Michael and avoid this lethal range of evils that could destroy him.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432747673
• ISBN13: 9781432747671
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"