In the quiet town of Wellfleet, located on Cape Cod, the wood ticks outnumber the year-round residents. The locals fish for a living, while the omnipresent seagulls circle overhead, waiting their chance for a free meal as the day’s catch is cleaned and made ready for sale. Sunshine and miles of sandy beaches make for a beautiful and serene way of life.
Unless, of course, you’re dead. More specifically, murdered.
A violent crime in Wellfleet is a rarity. Until now. First, Walter Harrington, the friendly mailman, is found dead, and then, Abigail Snow, sister of John Snow, Wellfleet’s Chief of Police, dies mysteriously. The State Police take over both investigations and quickly announce the cause of death, in both cases, to be “natural causes.”
No one believes it, but why the cover-up?
Walter Harrington’s son, Jack, an officer in Military Intelligence, returns home from Afghanistan and starts to ask questions about his father’s untimely death.
Unknowingly, Jack kicks a hornet’s nest of lies and deceit that puts him front and center in not only solving his father and Abigail’s deaths, but also on the front line of fighting today’s opioid crisis.
Previously, in Volume One of The Mailbox Mysteries: In My Father’s Footsteps:
Jack Harrington finds himself unexpectedly back home, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, after his last tour of duty in Afghanistan. The reason for the trip home was his father’s sudden death. What ended his career in Military Intelligence were the severe injuries he received from an RPG that hit the C-130 he was in. Innocently returning home for his father’s funeral, Jack left one war zone behind and unknowingly stumbled into a new one, one that threatened the existence of not only his home town, but all of Cape Cod.
Beautiful beaches and gentle waves lapping at the shoreline are some of the defining features that attract so many people from around the world to visit and enjoy Cape Cod. Or is it? In Volume Two of The Mailbox Mysteries: Searching for Icebergs, Jack finds himself sought after for his skills learned in Military Intelligence. Knowing there is always more to a story than meets the eye, Jack digs deep into the who, what, and why’s of the people around him. In so doing, he discovers an ugly reality that has tentacles reaching around the world. Once again, Jack finds himself center stage in combating a problem that reaches far beyond the shores of Cape Cod. This time, however, the love of his life, Wendy, is involved in a way that Jack never could have imagined!
In The Mailbox Mysteries, Volume Three: Spare Parts
Jack Harrington has had enough of solving crimes and just wants the simplicity of delivering mail, to the same customers, day after day.
If, as the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, then Jack should make new friends. Like it or not, with his background in military intelligence, Jack is an important spoke in the wheel of an unconventional crime-fighting unit.
Cape Cod, with its proximity to both Boston and New York City, continues to draw the worst of the worst to this sandy and sun-drenched peninsula.
This time, however, it’s more than drugs. Human trafficking has long, ugly fingers that reach around the world, all the way into the sleepy fishing village of Chatham, on the Cape. Oddly, human trafficking for slave labor or the sex trades, while evil crimes, pale in comparison to the despicable atrocities being forced upon the most vulnerable of the trafficked.
Jack and his partners find themselves, once again, dealing with an international problem that has reared its ugly head right in their back yard.
Jack and his friends attack this evil the only way they can—locally.
One day, one life at a time.
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