A Little Neighborhood Murder (Linford Mystery Library)

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Summary: Murder Moves in Next Door
Review: A. J. Orde is B. J. Oliphant is Sheri Tepper and a stunning writer whether she is dealing with the far future or the deepest rescesses of the heart.

Jason Lynx, the hero of this series, is a man who has been seriously wounded by life. He was abandoned as an badly burned infant on the steps of a children't home. He spent the next four years undergoing skin grafts. At the age of 14 he was taken in by an antique's dealer who had helped him get his start in the interior design business. Later he married but his wife disappeared and his son was found strapped in a car seat in a wrecked vehicle.

Now it is eight years later. Jason has taken over his foster father's business and has established himself as a successful businessman. Then one Sunday his neighbor George asks him to check on his dogs while he goes to pick up his wife who has had a minor accident. What follows is murder, bombings, and the breaking open of scabs that have crusted over old wounds.

This is a very good novel and a very good mystery. While it was first published in 1989 there is very little dated about the book.