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DUNES 'TIL DEAD
JULY 1976
Down the shore, it’s America’s Bicentennial Summer. But not everyone is celebrating with sparklers and bottle rockets. The bodies of two young women have turned up in the dunes at the southern tip of tourist-packed Long Beach Island, NJ.
Mickey Cleary, Surf City’s Police Chief for the last ten years, has just embarked on a new challenge when finds herself pulled back to LBI’s white sand beaches to help hunt down a killer. As her investigation progresses, she uncovers a horrific truth.
Mickey is about to learn that sometimes the devil you know can be much worse than the one you don’t.
Down the shore, it’s America’s Bicentennial Summer. But not everyone is celebrating with sparklers and bottle rockets. The bodies of two young women have turned up in the dunes at the southern tip of tourist-packed Long Beach Island, NJ.
Mickey Cleary, Surf City’s Police Chief for the last ten years, has just embarked on a new challenge when finds herself pulled back to LBI’s white sand beaches to help hunt down a killer. As her investigation progresses, she uncovers a horrific truth.
Mickey is about to learn that sometimes the devil you know can be much worse than the one you don’t.
345 pages, Paperback
Published April 24, 2022
About the author
Daniel J. Waters
9 books19 followersDaniel J. Waters is a native of southern NJ. He is a graduate of St. Joseph's College (PA) and the University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ; he also holds a Graduate Certificate in Narrative Healthcare and a Master of Arts in Writing from the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University (Asheville, NC). First published as a medical student in 1981 he has authored numerous stories and essays, two widely-quoted books of surgical advice, three poems, an award-winning play, and five novels. He retired in 2019 after performing open-heart surgery for thirty years and overseeing Graduate Medical Education programs for two decades. He was a Writing Fellow for the Health Professionals website Doximity where his "Op-Med" essays were widely read. He lives with his wife in Clear Lake, Iowa.
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May 31, 2022
A fitting addition....
to the Mickey Cleary series. Dan Waters in his usual way has picked up the story smoothly and told the next chapter in the Mickey Cleary saga in only the way he can. Can't wait for the next "episode"!! For those who haven't read the other books in the series, I strongly suggest that you do and enjoy the evolution of the characters as Dan describes where their lives take them. And if you're a native Jerseyite, as I am, you're sure to get a kick out of all the places and history that Dan weaves into his stories.
D. Lipinski
to the Mickey Cleary series. Dan Waters in his usual way has picked up the story smoothly and told the next chapter in the Mickey Cleary saga in only the way he can. Can't wait for the next "episode"!! For those who haven't read the other books in the series, I strongly suggest that you do and enjoy the evolution of the characters as Dan describes where their lives take them. And if you're a native Jerseyite, as I am, you're sure to get a kick out of all the places and history that Dan weaves into his stories.
D. Lipinski
July 19, 2025
Definitely worth reading
From the start this book was sensational. One of the best of the series, I couldnt put it down, and like the green headed flies mentioned in the book, the excitement was everywhere biting at you!
From the start this book was sensational. One of the best of the series, I couldnt put it down, and like the green headed flies mentioned in the book, the excitement was everywhere biting at you!
September 12, 2022
If you know LBI or don't, this is an enjoyable read
January 12, 2023
Had to read this and the rest of the series became it was about LBI
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