Book description
Bensington, Mass., the Boston bedroom suburb that was the scene of
Andrew Coburn's acclaimed thriller No Way Home, is the setting
of this new novel of thumbscrew suspense, explosive sex, and
shattering revelation. Once again police chief James Morgan takes
center stageÂ-this time to delve into the deaths of two young people
that rip the surface of the artificially idyllic community where
people play by their own desperately driven and dangerous rules.
When the corpse of sixteen-year-old Glen Bodine is found, the death
seems a tragic accidentÂ-or else an all-too-possible suicide. Murder
is out of the question, for this is a town of nice people, pretty
manners, and piles of money. But when an eccentric grafter declares
himself a child killer, not only Glen's death but another, even more
mysterious one buried in the past must be put under searching
scrutiny. The results expose a viper's nest of twisted hungers and
terrifying secrets.
As James Morgan follows a twisting trail to the unexpected truth
that bares the underside of relationships and marriages, and reveals
treacheries within families, he himself is torn between cool
professionalism and hot carnal passion to possess a beautiful married
woman he knows he should not touch. But he is not the only one impaled
on horns of desire. A woman painter finds herself going to bed with a
man she fruitlessly tries to despise. A wife in a â perfect marriageâ
finds she has been â sleeping with the devil.â Another chooses a
sexual route to wreak revenge on her staid husband and devastatingly
seductive stepson, while the most loving wife in the group is targeted
by a brilliant, rich, and ruthless tycoon who, as always, gets what he
wantsÂ-whether in the boardroom or the bedroom.
Andrew Coburn reaffirms his position as a novelist who has taken the
crime thriller to new heights of storytelling suspense and new depths
of insight and compassion as he weaves a spellbinding tale out of the
sins men and women commit and the veil they do to each other and
themselves. Unfolding with nerve-crackling tension, Voices in the Dark
will have you reading far into the night to unravel a tangle of
intertwined lives, lusts, and lies and to discover how fragile is the
seam that separates guilt from innocence, how deadly the line that
separates love from hate.
