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4.0 out of 5 stars
Impossible to Put Down, April 13 2004
Justin (Jay) Westwood of Providence, Rhode Island, was a legendary crime-solver, until the Mafia murdered his daughter before turning their guns on him. Left for dead, Jay managed to kill the intruders, stopping the rape and murder of his wife. One year later, his wife committed suicide, bringing to an end the life Jay knew. Added to this mess is Jay's father, who blames Jay for the loss of his granddaughter.
Six years later, Westwood is a cop in the resort town of East End Harbor on Long Island, NY, where his days are spent writing traffic tickets and putting up with the scorn of two, twenty-something, summer cops. Westwood is mocked for being out of shape and spaced out, while he drowns each day in booze and fogs his mind with old song lyrics. Crime is so rare in East End Harbor that police carry cell phones instead of guns. But everything changes when the dead body of a reporter is found. At first glance, the reporter's death looks accidental, but Jay is nagged by something not quite right about the murder scene. Against his better judgment, Westwood investigate, and happens across a witness that saw the murder. Fortunately, the murderer is not aware of the witness, until bratty cop Brian gives a television interview, and he, too, turns up dead. Jay takes the witness, Deena Harper, and her daughter Kendall on a race to outwit the killers, determined to keep them alive while unraveling the puzzle of more unlikely murders that keep cropping up: • Cranky movie buff, Wallace P. Crabbe
• The mistress of a prominent government official
• Nursing home residents who coincidentally have the same niece or nephew, one of which is missing and the other dead after the FBI is called in. If that's not enough, Westwood and Deena are then implicated in some of the murders and become fugitives, forcing them back to Jay's hometown of Providence for the help they desperately need. Throw in some creepy identical twin males whose hobby is killing people, an FBI man torn by his conscience, a brilliant scientist, the FDA and some top-ranking political figures and Andrews has written a true, not-to-be-put-down thriller.
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