Dark Harbor By Bruce Robert Coffin

There’s something particularly satisfying about a coastal mystery when you’re reading it right here on the coast. And this one? It hits close to home.

Bruce Robert Coffin brings Detective Brock Justice to the glittering, well-heeled streets of Bar Harbor—just up the Maine shoreline from our own salty cove. When multimillionaire Granville Warren and an unidentifiable intruder both turn up dead in a mansion break-in gone wrong, the evidence points squarely at Granville’s much younger wife, Lily. Her self-defense claim raises far more suspicion than sympathy.

What follows is a razor-sharp descent into the secrets of Maine’s wealthy elite. With intricate plotting reminiscent of Craig Johnson’s Longmire and the relentless, atmospheric tension of C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett, Coffin delivers a police procedural that ratchets up page by page. Add a too-polished new detective watching Brock’s every move, a trail of buried corruption, and a protagonist haunted by his own past mistakes, and you’ve got a book that’s very hard to set down.

The critics agree. Craig Johnson calls it “the real deal—a tale of trial and redemption.” Reed Farrel Coleman praises it as “a superior, Connelly-esque procedural,” and Edgar Award winner Lou Berney calls it “a superb police procedural, gripping and tight.” A book club pick and one that’s been earning raves across the crime fiction world.

Pour a cup of something warm, listen to the wind off the water, and let this one pull you in. It’s the kind of read that begs you to linger.

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