Edge Of The Sand - A Jersey Shore Noir Mystery

Small-time reporter Bernie Romeo Ruane has returned to his home town on the Jersey shore to look for Maureen. A woman he loved, but not enough. A woman who walked out of his life and disappeared ten years ago.Darby's back too, his volatile, captivating niece who's now a local cop. She left town a little after Romeo did, right after her father, Romeo's brother, bludgeoned her mother to death in their grimy kitchen one hot summer night.With the Ruanes back in town, things get complicated. Romeo is quickly pulled into reporting the midnight killing of a young local librarian in the parking lot of a run-down yacht club. Then he and Darby uncover unsolved homicides of other young women from the past decade they have been gone, brutal murders of women with promise and potential. Women who had the world on a string. Unlike Maureen. Unlike Darby.In chasing down what became known as the Jersey Shore Murders, Romeo and Darby look for something else. Maybe home. Maybe family at last. At the edge of the sand.