Thin slice of life - Arceneaux, Miles (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2013)
When a political aide is assassinated at a fancy seaside party for a corrupt state politician, it sets into motion a chain of events that brings together a disparate cast of characters and thrusts them into threatening-and even mortal-circumstances. Unlikely heroes arise from improbable circumstances, and the denizens of the small seaside community find their fortunes and fates ebbing and flowing like the tidal flux of the ocean itself