Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up in a plot to pilfer diamonds in a heist novel that infuses Elmore Leonard and Casablanca.

Jack might be a polished, Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, but everyone in the down-at-the-heels, if picturesque, village of Onset, Massachusetts, knows his real job: moving around people on the run from powerful enemies. Except for the occasional fumble, the family businessco-managed with his father, a retired spyis smooth sailing, filling up Onsets holiday homes during the towns long, drowsy off-season. But when Elena, Jacks enigmatic former flameand former client-fugitivemakes an unexpected return to town, wealthy fiance in tow, her arrival upends Jacks routine existence. Elena, after all, doesnt go anywhere without a scheme in mind, and it isnt long before Jack finds himself enmeshed in her latest hustle: intercepting millions of dollars worth of raw diamonds before theyre shipped overseas.

With sharp wit and stylish prose, CrimeReads editor in chief Dwyer Murphy serves up an irresistible page-turner as full of heart as it is of drama.