Book excerpt: His father was an investigator who was murdered. Matthias Jones became an athlete and coach, but he solved his father's murder.Hamilton College on the coast of New Hampshire hired him to coach sports, but getting into murder investigations remains his passion. He knows the cops and the district attorney Herbert Lane hates his guts. He's best buds with Cocoa Stefani a major under world character and a good friend of parish priest, Father Jim Gallagher. Jones's persistence gains him the upper hand over the cops and the DA-and the murderer.In Murder at Tolby Lake Brad Davis was a brilliant genetic researcher working for Hamilton Fletcher and Hamilton College. But Davis's wild life of parties, booze, drugs and sex made him many enemies. When he is murdered a Hamilton College student Amy Pollard is found with her personally owned handgun, the gun that killed Brad Davis. Just that afternoon Davis bloodied his benefactor, Hamilton Fletcher's nose. Lurking in the background is Davis's mob connection to Albert Fiore in Boston. A Hamilton College professor, Zoey Wilmont is suspiciously surveilling the lake house area. The Fletchers reach out to Matthias Jones to protect the college's interest and find the murderer. Jones ends up with his nefarious friend Cocoa Stefani in Boston eventually confronts the murderer directly.