Carmine Delmonico · Book 4
The Prodigal Son
- Published
- 1 January 2012
- Pages
- 305
- ISBN-13
- 9781476767567
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Prodigal Son, the fourth novel, was published in 2012 at 305 pages -- the shortest book in the series so far -- continuing McCullough's late-career return to police-procedural crime writing after Masters of Rome.
Its place in Carmine Delmonico
The Prodigal Son is book 4 in the Carmine Delmonico series. It follows Naked Cruelty. It is followed by Sins of the Flesh. See the full Carmine Delmonico reading order.
Carmine Delmonico is a police captain in Holloman, Connecticut — a fictional Yale-adjacent university town McCullough built specifically for this series — investigating cases that repeatedly implicate the town's wealthy, insular academic and scientific elite. On, Off opens with a serial killer targeting young women connected to Chubb University (McCullough's stand-in for Yale) and dismembering their bodies in a way that points toward someone with genuine medical or research expertise, setting the template for a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781476767567