Vacationland

By Phillip Koerber

Summer in Portland, Maine kicks off with barbeques and murder as the body of a teenage girl is discovered on nearby Peaks Island.Two detectives from Portland's Violent Crimes Against Children Unit ferry across Casco Bay to find seventeen-year-old Lauren Wayscott's dead body crammed inside a cooler. The gruesome crime scene leaves Detectives Alex Nolan and Ben "Gull" Gulverson wondering if big city murder had arrived to the small, coastal city. A seasoned detective from Boston, Massachusetts, Gull applies his hardnosed ethics to the case, in order to keep rookie detective Nolan as unburdened as possible. However, the more Gull tries to protect his partner, the darker the questions become for Nolan. Even Sarah, Nolan's wife, becomes concerned about what Nolan brings home to the table, and furthermore what sort of father he'll be when their child is born. Nolan and Gull learn what lurks in the dark shadows of Portland, when the victim's drug dealing boyfriend--a pawn in the self-proclaimed King of Portland's drug game--becomes the focus of the investigation. Was Lauren's murder a message to her boyfriend? Or was this high honors student caught in a web of her own?Can Nolan ever return from the dark places he needs to dive to solve the murder of Lauren Wayscott? Moral compasses will be skewed and convictions tested as the truth comes to the surface in Vacationland.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520662203
• ISBN13: 9781520662206
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"