Punishment

Forced to retire early from his job as a corrections officer in Kingston Penitentiary, Tony Breau has retreated to the village where he grew up, only to find that Dwayne Strickland, a young con he'd had dealings with in prison, is back there too. Strickland has just been arrested and charged in the suspicious death of a teenage girl, the granddaughter of Caddy Stewart. Tony remembers Caddy all too well; she was his first girlfriend and broke his heart.

Soon Tony is caught in a fierce emotional struggle between the outcast Strickland, who appeals to his sense of justice, and the still alluring Caddy. And then another figure from Tony's past, Neil Archie MacDonald - just retired in murky circumstances from the Boston police force - looms into view. Though he was once the instrument of the law, Neil now sees himself more as a sword of vengeance. As Tony struggles to resist the vortex of vigilante action, Punishment builds into a total page-turner that blindsides you with its twists and betrayals.