Frostline [Import] [Hardcover]

Justin Scott (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Collins Crime (November 17, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002256088
• ISBN-13: 978-0002256087
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Justin Scott has written twenty-four thrillers, historicals, and mystery novels, including The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle. With many books set at sea, he has been called "the Dick Francis of yachting."

He created the Ben Abbott detective series (HardScape, StoneDust, FrostLine, McMansion and Mausoleum), and was twice nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America.

His main pen name is Paul Garrison under which he has written five modern sea thrillers including Red Sky At Morning, Sea Hunter, and The Ripple Effect.

The Wrecker, a collaboration with Clive Cussler is being published Fall of 2009. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, filmmaker Amber Edwards.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars interesting and colorful amateur sleuth, October 1, 2003

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frostline (Ben Abbott Novels) (Hardcover)

When Henry King, former chief of the national security council, moves to Newbury, Connecticut, he buys the Zarega homestead and turns it into a country estate, Fox Trot. Mr. King's land is right where he plan to build a lake. King's next door neighbor, dairy farmer Ron Butler, leases a piece of land that the ex-statesman wants to buy but the two men can't come to any agreement.

King asks the town real estate agent Ben Abbot to try and mediate the dispute but Mr. Butler is a stubborn man who just wants to be left in peace on land his family owned for three generations. When Henry throws a house party, an explosion occurs and the man-made lake is destroyed. Killed in the blast is Mr. Butler's son and the state police believe that the former, an expert in setting explosives, set the bomb. They arrest him and Ben is hired to help his lawyer find some evidence to clear his client because if Mr. Butler isn't released from jail soon, he is going to go insane.

After writing HARDSCAPE AND STONEDUST Justin Scott took a hiatus from the Ben Abbott mysteries until now. Ben Abbot returns in FROSTLINE and this novel is even better than the first two books in the series. This is not a pretty novel and for the most part the characters aren't likable but it is a very interesting and colorful amateur sleuth tale starring a hero who did time and turned his life around. Using misdirection and red herrings Mr. Scott keeps the reader guessing about the identity of the bomber until he chooses to reveal it.

Harriet Klausner

4.0 out of 5 stars Another good read., October 31, 2011

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This review is from: FrostLine (Ben Abbott Novels) (Kindle Edition)

Ben Abbott series book that further developes the cast of charaters we've been introduced to before. Good read and worth getting into the series.