The Way Life Should Be: A Novel

Just before dawn in Stone Harbor, Maine, two men meet in the bathhouse in a wooded park.
"So what do you have in mind?" one asks.
"A little surprise," the other answers before beating him to death with a steel flashlight.

Newspaper editor John Quinn and his wife have returned to his hometown to raise their son, but real estate prices have soared and natives are being pushed out. Then a popular politician and family man is murdered at a well-known gay pickup spot. The victim was Quinn's ...