Vanished in the Dunes: A Hamptons Mystery
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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 from 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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Allan Retzky. (2012). Vanished in the Dunes: A Hamptons Mystery. Oceanview Publishing.
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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 from 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. Agent: Ellen Levine, Trident Media.
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Disgraced Wall Street commodities trading executive Amos Posner hangs around his Hamptons beach house while his wife continues to work in Manhattan. Their relationship is strained by the shadow of guilt hanging over Amos, who appears to have been a convenient fall guy for his company's dubious practices. While on the bus that runs between New York City and the Hamptons, Amos enters into a conversation with a mysteriously seductive woman, Heidi Kashani. She wrangles a visit to his home, and while Amos runs an errand in the local village, she is killed. Amos panics and buries her body, rather than contacting the police, but he hasn't counted on a determined local detective, Heidi's tormented lover, or her sister showing up. Now we're really talking fall guy. VERDICT Dostoyevsky lives! This debut psychological thriller's stomach-tightening tension builds as the growing cast of players demonstrates how bad choices rarely pay off. For fans of moral conundrum authors, such as Jo Bannister and Scott Turow.
Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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