The Dorchester Five
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Publisher Description
“Boston’s historic, multicultural neighborhood of Dorchester provides the backdrop for this engrossing crime novel” from the author of Fickle (Publishers Weekly).
Years ago, after a criminally negligent driver ran down a church lady in Dorchester, an angry group of five people flipped his car over, leaving him disfigured and brain damaged.
Now, a playboy lawyer has plunged from the roof of a Boston hotel, and a Rhode Island strip club owner has been found dead. Both men had been spotted with a mysterious woman who left behind a trail of filterless cigarettes, purple lipstick, and French perfume. And both men were members of the so-called Dorchester Five. Now, homicide cop Marina Papanikitas can’t shake the gnawing feeling that these murders are merely the tip of the iceberg in one femme fatale’s vengeful spree . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Boston's historic, multicultural neighborhood of Dorchester provides the backdrop for this engrossing crime novel from Manus (Fickle). One hot summer afternoon, an old woman who's a churchgoer and pillar of the community is hit by a car and killed. An angry mob overturns the car, which bursts into flames, leaving Jakey Culligan, the young man behind the wheel, badly burned and permanently brain-damaged. Five men are charged and brought to trial, and all but one are released. Now, eight years later, a serial killer is targeting Jakey's lawyer and the men who were tried for the incident. The narrative alternates between entries in the diaries of Marina Papanikitas, a police detective assigned to the case and self-described "spastic psychic," and the voice of Nightingale, a dedicated killer with a flair for disguise who has a knack for getting into the minds of others and who identifies with French actress Jeanne Moreau. The book offers some fun for fans of '60s noir, Hitchcock, and schlock horror films.
