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A fantastic fiction debut: a big, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is defined in two privileged worlds: top of the crust BLACK society of the eastern seaboard—old families who summer on Martha’s Vineyard—and the inner circle associated with an Ivy League law school. It tells the storyline of an complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime.
The Emperor of the title, Judge Oliver Garland, has just died, suddenly. An excellent legal mind, conservative and famously controversial, Judge Garland made more enemies than friends. Many years before, he’d earned a judge’s highest prize: a Supreme Court nomination. However in a scene of bitter humiliation, televised in the united states, his nomination collapsed in scandal. The humbling defeat became a private agony, one that he never recovered.
But now the Judge’s death raises even more questions—and it seems to be leading to another, even more terrible scandal. Could Oliver Garland have been murdered? He has left a strange message for his son Talcott, a professor of law at a great university, entrusting him with “the arrangements”—a mysterious puzzle that only Tal can unlock, in support of by unearthing the ambiguities of his father’s past. When another man is available dead, and then another, Talcott—wry, straight-arrow, almost too self-aware to be always a man of action—must risk his career, his marriage, and even his life, following clues his father left him.
Intricate, superbly written, often scathingly funny, The Emperor of Ocean Park is a triumphant work of fiction, filled with character and incident—a brilliantly crafted tapestry of ambition, family secrets, murder, integrity tested, and justice gone terribly wrong.
