“Book Descriptions:The “Sociologist of Sleaze,” Stanley Hopkins, is coming to Clarkeston, Georgia, to track down the source of an internet photo. Diana Cavendish disappeared five years ago, but a sexy new pic has just emerged on mygirlfriendsbikini.com.
James Murphy, a local journalist obsessed with her apparent abduction and murder, cannot tackle the mystery without the grieving professor Hopkins, a disgruntled Episcopal priest, and Melanie Wilkerson, a glamorous and sharp-tongued US attorney.
Dark humor pervades the investigation leads Stanley to Mallorca and Geneva, while James and Melanie stumble upon the dangerously corrupt world of US cotton.
Those who enjoy the mysteries of Elly Griffiths, Harry Bingham, Carl Hiassen, Peter Grainger, or Paul Levine, will appreciate the touch of humor that naturally tinges even the grimmest twists and turns in the story. Death in Eden and its sequels Cotton and Raggedyland establish the CLARKESTON CHRONICLES as a leading example of character-driven mysteries that still deliver an unorthodox punch in the gut.” DRIVE