Vanished In The Dunes
A Hamptons Mystery
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Publisher Description
Amos Posner has a lovely house in the upscale Hamptons beach community of eastern Long Island. But recent events in Amos's life are preventing him form enjoying it. His employer, an international trading firm, fired him after making him the scapegoat for some shady business deals. His wife, a highly successful Manhattan lawyer, has not taken kindly to his job situation, and their marriage is under considerable stress. Amos is spending most of his time at the beach house, alone, and not at all happy. So he is highly vulnerable when a beautiful woman approaches him on a bus - the Hampton Jitney - from Manhattan to the Hamptons and persuades him to show her around the area on her day off from her job as a psychiatric resident at a Manhattan hospital. When Amos reluctantly agrees, he gets far more than an ego boost. He gets a nightmare beyond imagination. And the cascading events could cost him more than the loss of his job and his wife. They could cost him his life.
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Retzky's plodding first novel references classic predecessors like Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, but fails to generate much suspense. Since Amos Posner was unjustly fired from his international trading position in Manhattan, he's been living at his beach house in Amagansett with occasional visits to the city. His wife, who suspects he's been unfaithful, has stopped visiting him on weekends. One morning on the Hampton Jitney, Posner meets the seductive Heidi Kashani, a resident in psychiatry at Mt. Sinai hospital, who persuades him to show her his beach house. When Posner returns to the house after briefly leaving Heidi alone there, he finds her dead from an apparent fall. Posner's decision to bury her eventually brings Det. Peter Wisdom to his door and later Heidi's obsessed lover, Dr. Henry Stern. Enter Brigid Kashani, Heidi's look-alike sister, who adds a wild card to this three-cornered game. A climactic confrontation leads to a disappointing resolution.
