NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSusan Isaacs bringsher wicked wit and keen understanding of what really goes on between men andwomen to a very different slice of Long Island—the Hamptons.Magic hour. Thatperfect time, that fleeting hour of enchanted light near dusk and dawn that isperfect for moviemaking, perfect for making love. Perfect for murder.And into the magichour steps Stephen Brady, wise guy, tough guy, local farm boy turned homicidecop, and a good man with a very bad life. But just as his luck is about tochange, the rich, gifted, and urbane filmmaker Sy Spencer is murdered, andBrady discovers that his prime suspect is a woman he and the victim shared.A spellbindingmystery, a scathing social satire and a poignant love story, Magic Hour looksbeyond the trendy magazine-cover Hamptons’ world of the summer set’shigh-cheekboned elegance and the locals’ down-on-the-farm authenticity into thehearts of real people.Magic Hour is the story of the treacherous murderthat rocks them all and of the police detective who is too cold-hearted, tooworld-weary to ever fall in love—until he does.