Head Wounds
A Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery

Peel back the glamour of the fabled Hamptons and you'll find a beautiful place filled with ugly secrets. This is Sam Acquillo's world. Moving effortlessly across the social divide with wry pal Jackie Swaitkowski and rich guy Burton Lewis, the exboxer, excorporate infighter seems doomed to straddle the thin red line between envy and love, hate and forgiveness, goodness and greedand sometimes, life and death. Parttime carpenter, fulltime drinker and coconspirator with an existential mutt named Eddie Van Halen, Sam tries to lead the simple life. But as always, fate intervenes, this time in the form of Robbie Milhouser, a local builder and blundering bully who shares with Sam an irresistible attraction to the beautiful Amanda. When Robbie is murdered, Sam finds himself in the crosshairs of a very determined chief of police.