Security

There isnt much crime in Stoneleigh Massachusetts. Its a college town amountain getaway for the quietly rich where the average burglar alarm is setoff by foragi... » 

There isnt much crime in Stoneleigh Massachusetts. Its a college town amountain getaway for the quietly rich where the average burglar alarm is setoff by foraging wildlife. So when Edward Inman the owner of StoneleighSentinel gets a latenight false alarm from the home of Doyle Cutler one ofhis wealthiest clients Edward thinks nothing of itnot until a local studentMary Steckl claims that she was sexually assaulted at Cutlers house. Edwardsoon finds himself drawn to Marys story even though the rest of the towndoubts her including his wife a rising politician who has made security theplatform of her mayoral campaign. While homework from a creative writing classis leaked as evidence of a dark secret between Mary and her father Edwardsinvestigations lead him to his old girlfriend Kathryn Williams whose teenageson may hold the key to the truth about that night. From the author of HumanCapital Security is a timely wry and riveting story of adults andchildren secret lives and civicculture suspicion and sexual hysteria. Itconfirms Stephen Amidon as a master of the art and one of the foremostchroniclers of American life today. «