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The Prodigal Son
A Mystery Novel by Colleen McCullough
Book 4 of the Carmine Delmonico Series
Subgenres:
- Police Procedural,
- 1960s Connecticut,
- Academic Mystery
This book is for you if you're into...
- Academic mysteries with deadly scientific secrets
- 1960s small-town intrigue and social tensions
- Suspects whose personal lives complicate every clue
The fourth entry in this series by internationally acclaimed bestselling author Colleen McCullough sends Carmine Delmonico on a heart-pounding ride through the world of toxic substances and brilliant biochemists to pursue a mysterious killer on the loose.
JEALOUSY. INTRIGUE. THEFT. MURDER. CARMINE DELMONICO IS BACK ON THE CASE.
HOLLOMAN, CONNECTICUT, 1969. A lethal toxin, extracted from the blowfish, is stolen from a laboratory at Chubb University. It kills within minutes and leaves no trace behind. Captain Carmine Delmonico is therefore quick off the mark when the bodies start to mount up.
A sudden death at a dinner party followed by another at a gala black-tie event seem at first to be linked only by the poison and the presence of Dr. Jim Hunter. A black man married to a white woman, Dr. Hunter has faced scandal and prejudice for most of his life, so what would cause him to risk it all now? Or is he being framed for murder—and if so, by whom?
Carmine and his detectives must follow the trail through the university town's crowd of eccentrics, no matter how close to home it may lead.
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