There isn't much crime in the quietly rich college town of Stoneleigh, Massachussets. So when Edward Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel Security, is alerted by a late-night alarm from the home of Doyle Cutler, one of his wealthiest clients, Edward thinks little of it - until a local student, Mary Steckl, claims that she was sexually assaulted at Cutler's house that same night.
Edward soon finds himself convinced by Mary's story, even though the rest of the town doubts her - including his would-be politician wife. His investigations eventually lead him to his old girlfriend, whose teenage son may hold the key to the truth about that night.
Security is a brilliantly observed and gripping story of adults and children, secret lives and civic culture, suspicion and sexual hysteria.
- ISBN10 0374257116
- ISBN13 9780374257118
- Publish Date 3 February 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 276
- Language English