| Title: |
Dead as a Doornail (#6 in the Stan Kraychik series) |
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| Author: |
Grant Michaels |
| Published by: |
St. Martin's Press, 1998 |
| ISBN: |
0-312-18077-2 [hardcover, 248 pages] |
Stan Kraychik - psychologist by training,
hairdresser by experience - is newly wealthy owing to an unforeseen windfall,
but the indolence of wealth is beginning to pale. So he decides to spend
some of his loot to buy and rehabilitate the last unrenovated brownstone
in Boston's fabulously chic South End. But on the day of a freak April
snowstorm during the worst winter in Boston's history, Stan discovers the
murdered body of a young, attractive contractor inside his structurally
unsound brownstone.
Because the contractor resembled Stan, Lt. Vito Branco
of the Boston Police Department thinks that Stan might have been the intended
target. While Branco wants Stan to leave town while he investigates the
murder, Stan has ideas of his own. Looking into the death, Stan discovers
that underneath the well-kept facade of his glamorous neighborhood lies
a web of ill-kept secrets, jealousies, and resentments. In the midst of
all of it is something that motivated someone to murder, and Stan must
find out who - and what - before the murderer strikes again.
