Death in a Summer Colony - (Ray Elkins Thrillers) by Aaron Stander (Paperback)

About the Book

Ray Elkins attends a play... and an actor is murdered.

Book Synopsis

It's a warm summer evening in Cedar County. A storm is just beginning to roll onshore from Lake Michigan. In the auditorium of the Mission Point Summer Colony, the audience settles in for a performance of a stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death at the Vicarage. By the first intermission the intense thunderstorm is overhead.

The old auditorium reverberates to the violent tumult. Flashes of lightning cast eerie shadows through the rolling, heavily wooded landscape. Then the power fails. The building and surrounding countryside go black.

When the electricity is restored, Ray Elkins, the Sheriff of Cedar County, is guided from his seat in the auditorium to the stage area. A member of the cast has been found fatally stabbed.

Review Quotes

Stander once again demonstrates his deep understanding of the geographic area and total fabric of northern Michigan. And he successfully melds this within a natural ability to tell a good yarn. -I Love a Mystery Newsletter "An honest ear for dialog, a fine eye for the landscape and a storyteller's sense of drama converged when author Aaron Stander wrote this compelling Up North mystery. A satisfying way to spend a winter's weekend with hot cocoa and a blanket." -Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine "With a protagonist as deep and textured as Ray Elkins and a backdrop as varied as this resort community, Stander has created a high-quality mystery series. -Foreword Magazine. "Stander has written a solid, entertaining tale."-Lansing State Journal "Stander's Cedar County with its haunting sand dunes, woodlands and Lake Michigan-alternately raging and serene-shape and shade every character on the canvas." -Northern Express "A thriller of the first order. Stander evokes these north woods and Lake Michigan with a poet's eye and the drama of the human heart with a detective's wry, unflinching touch." -New York Times BESTSELLER Doug Stanton "Stander has a keen sense of what it takes to keep readers turning the pages of his books." -Grand Traverse Insider