Infusino donates 100% of the proceeds of his books to fund two scholarships for graduating seniors at Hull Excessive College. Final 12 months’s recipients, chosen by college workers, had been Dahlia Hedrick and Sean Reilly.
The Paragon Park Murders begins when two males are shot useless within the shuttered well-known amusement heart within the winter of 1957. The twisted story of suspense and corruption strikes like a curler coaster journey with bone-jarring turns and terrifying plunges into the world of mafia gangsters and crooked cops.
Rookie MDC Detective Anthony Gallo, a Hull native and Korean Struggle hero, leads the investigation into the killings and is thrust into the crosshairs of mafia assassins when his probe strays too near their deliberate theft scheme. Two makes an attempt are made on his life.
Whereas working out of the MDC substation in Nantasket, Gallo comes nose to nose with the highschool sweetheart he deserted to hitch the Marines. His efforts to win her again should not nicely obtained – she has moved on; he has not. His obsession together with her jeopardizes his concentrate on the investigation.
Infusino believes “the readers of homicide mysteries might be enthralled by the efforts of a younger detective, thwarted even by his personal superiors, to unravel a criminal offense which turns into more and more complicated and harmful.”
Infusino grew up in Hull, labored at Paragon like a lot of his pals, graduated from Hull Excessive College and UMass, and served as a Marine officer in Vietnam. A instructor and highschool principal, he retired because the superintendent of a 34,000-student college district in southern California.
Infusino is known as after his father, Frank J. Infusino, a longtime Hull Police officer, who in his off time helped construct the miniature golf course at Paragon and will typically be seen strolling the monitor of the Big Coaster to make sure its security. Infusino nonetheless calls Hull house, though he has lived in California for a few years. His sister, Joanne Haraden, nonetheless lives on the town and cousins and nephews are unfold from Boston to the South Shore.
Two of Infusino’s earlier novels, “Homicide at Fort Revere” and “The Girl in Black” (involving the rumored ghost on Fort Warren) are set in or close to Hull. You possibly can e-mail him at cuzvito73@gmail.com or go to frankinfusino.com.
