num_pages: 278
description: Benjamin Abbott returns to his hometown to save his family's recession-battered real estate business, never dreaming that things are about the heat up in picturesque Newbury, Connecticut. Broke and looking for some excitement, Ben takes a job videotaping the adulterous goings-on in a bedroom in Jack and Rita Long's "castle." But he doesn't bargain on becoming embroiled in the murder of Rita Long's friend. A second murder closer to home propels Ben to embark on a new career as a neophyte detective and leads him to encounter answers that will put him in mortal danger.
language: English
title: HardScape
titlecomplete: HardScape (Ben Abbott #1)
genres: Crime, Mystery
ratings_count: 140
series: Ben Abbott Mysteries
publisher: Poisoned Pen Press