World of Hurt

With World of Hurt, his first new novel in six years, Rosen returns with a tour-de-force tale of real estate deception and psychological abuse. When real estate agent Larry Peplow is found murdered in a desolate field, the search for his killer takes retired baseball player-turned-private investigator Harvey Blissberg from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to affluent Chicago suburbs to the coast of Maine...and to some places not found in any atlas. Lured into the investigation by his older brother, Norm, Harvey leaves Boston, his troubled relationship with live-in love Mickey Slavin, and his new therapist to follow the trail of damaged souls that ends at Larry Peplow's corpse. No one seems to know much about Peplow - just that he'd last lived in Maine, that he was part of Norm's regular pickup basketball game, and that just before his head was blown off he'd told a little real estate lie... In World of Hurt, everyone lies - even Harvey falls into the habit - but the biggest fabrication of all turns out to be Larry,Peplow himself. Discovering his secrets takes time, for his murder conceals another, much slower death that is all but forgotten. The pieces that Harvey slowly puts together are painful, and the final puzzle is a picture of madness, sadness, and murderous rage.Rosen, Richard D. is the author of 'World of Hurt' with ISBN 9780802732514 and ISBN 0802732518.