FREE: Peter Blauner The Last Good Day PB

The listing, Peter Blauner The Last Good Day PB has ended.

People magazine called this "A riveting thriller" and I have to agree. This copy is in good used condition, no marking, yellowing, pages are secure and flat.

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Here's a short excerpt. HINT- It's not a seal.

This was one of those places where the working people traditionally lived closer to the water while the striving classes ascended into the hills. But the New Economy had torn through town and scrambled the landscape as dramatically as the infamous 1899 tornado that left cows and bowler hats dangling from the oak branches on River Road. Through most of the nineties, real estate prices had skyrocketed; scrappy little linoleum-encrusted ranch houses with tiny unrenovated kitchens were selling for close to half a million. Precious little antique stores and galleries started popping up on streets that decent middle-class people used to be afraid to walk down. A French restaurant that managed to get a qualified rave in the Times replaced a hardware store that always smelled like turpentine and potting soil. But then the prosperity had suddenly receded, leaving everyone stranded. So now you had converted warehouse condos and supersize chain stores sitting vacant along the waterfront, while stockbrokers' wives up in the hills brutally nickel-and-dimed their Mexican gardeners.

"You know what I'm thinking?" said Marty, turning and looking down at the water again, fifteen feet below. "I'm thinking that's not driftwood or a newspaper. I'm thinking that's something else. Like maybe a dead seal.