Everyone's Looking for Something: An Alex Ballintine Mystery (The Alex Ballintine Mysteries)

Everyone's Looking for Something: An Alex Ballintine Mystery (The Alex Ballintine Mysteries)

A former detective turned professor must confront his past to solve a murder and save a missing friend in a small New England town. The debut novel in the new Alex Ballintine Mystery Series. It's the fall of 1983. Former detective Alexander Ballintine has settled into life as a college professor in the former mill town of Taft, New Hampshire. But his world is upended by the murder of a prominent local businessman and the sudden disappearance of a former student. Drawn back into the world of criminal investigation, Ballintine must navigate academic politics, family secrets, and his own haunted past as he searches for the truth. Ballintine teams up with the unconventional and resourceful new department assistant, Daphne Norris, and uncovers a tangled web of betrayal, hidden motives, and long-buried resentments. Racing against time to clear his friend's name and stop a cunning killer, Ballintine is forced to confront the choices that drove him from law enforcement, and to decide how far he’s willing to go for redemption and justice. Everybody’s Looking for Something takes us back to a time before cell phones and the internet, when crimes had to be solved the old fashioned way, like in those old detective shows on TV.