Stonedust - Ben Abbott Novels Paperback Author:Justin Scott Ben Abbott is back in StoneDust, a complex, richly plotted, and enthralling mystery that tests this witty, literate realtor and fledgling detective as never before. The Fisks? weekend party, a ?sleep-over? for select couples, remains the talk of the town long after Reg Hopkins? body turns up in an isolated covered bridge. For Reg may have paid... more » the party a fleeting visit?before dying in a way everyone swears was impossible. Ben, who used to play backyard baseball with Reg and all the party guests, must take up the matter with a hometown cast of friends, foes, and family?including his ninety-year-old Aunt Connie, the rising politician and his sometime lover Vicky McLachlan, the comely and ambitious State Police Detective Marian Boyce, and a pair of deadly housebreakers. Soon everybody?s getting much more in the way of kicks than they bargained for.« less