Basque fisherman who casts his nets in the treacherous waters of the Atlantic . He is a working-class man in a region of Long Island sharply divided between those who inhabit this isolated finger of land year-round, and the wealthy who claim it every summer.
But in postwar America , the land-scape is changing quickly. And lives too will change-affecting everyone in the community-when Conrad's nets pull in the body of a beautiful young woman, sea- weed twined in her hair. Deputy Chief of Police Tom Hollis must traverse the shoals of class and community in order to deter- mine whether a crime has been committed and, if so, by whom. From the privileged family whose dead daughter was hiding a torturous secret, to the determined cop who seeks the truth, to the fisherman who is always one step ahead of him, everyone in Amagansett will be touched by what the waves cast up that day.
Amagansett is a novel as sweeping and haunting as landscape of sky and sea that is its backdrop. Beautifully and power-fully told, it skillfully weaves together a delicate love story, a brutal murder mystery, an unforgettable evocation of a place and time, and characters shaped by the epic forces of nature, class, and memory.
