Summer of Fear

Russ Monroe is a successful true-crime writer living in Southern California with his wife, who is battling cancer. When a series of very sinister and very similar murders follow one another in Orange County, Monroe senses true material at his doorstep, even though the cops are trying to deny that a serial killer is on the loose. But the next killing involves someone Russ knows intimately, and he begins his own investigation, which leads him back into his city, his family, his home. He finds that the truth may set you free, but it can also kill the ones you love.


"Parker emerges as one of our best novelists."
--- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"A brave piece of work."
--- George Pelecanos, The Washington Post Book World

"Not a mystery containing a love story, it is a love story containing a mystery. It's a very good mystery, and an even better love story."
--- The Los Angeles Times

"Jeff Parker has written a truly harrowing and bone-chilling inquiry into the nature of evil...Thrillers don't get better than this.
--- Paul Monette

"His plot and pacing are now essentially faultless."
--- Miami Herald


About the Author: T. Jefferson Parker is the author of nineteen crime novels, and a three-time winner of the Edgar Award. He lives in Southern California.