Jimmy Phipps is a high school teacher living aboard a sailboat in a downtown West Palm Beach Marina. He is numb from mourning the recent death of his ex-wife, a Palm Beach heiress, who died from a cocaine overdose. On the Summer Solstice, a woman climbs on board claiming to know who actually murdered her, setting Jimmy on a journey into his past. His investigation takes him back over thirty years where he discovers secrets long hidden, lies long unacknowledged, and ugly truths long suppressed. He soon finds out just about everything he ever assumed about his parents, his wife, and even his...

DEMAREST KILL is a murder mystery and coming of age/loss of innocence novel unlike any you have read before. The Demarest Kill is a stream that threads its way through New City, behind The Dutch Garden and the Rockland County Courthouse, and serves as a metaphor for the events that unfold over a fifty-year period. Richly described with period detail and local color, DEMAREST KILL is the story of a generation of baby-boomers who grew up in the post-World War II years in New City, New York, just thirty miles north of Manhattan. Will, a fifth generation home-town boy, befriends Tom, a child...