Low tor : a New City mystery novel
(Book)

"New City native, Abram “Abby” Traphagen was a local kid who made good. A high school football star who went on to sports fame with a full scholarship to Florida State University, he was later drafted by the NY Giants, where he spent ten years as a wide receiver. Hired as a television network football commentator, he capitalized on his fame and became a bestselling mystery novelist. Now, in 2008, his life has fallen apart. His wife has died of acute alcohol poisoning, his 20 year-old son has disappeared, and he’s been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Alone in his remote, 200 year-old ivy-covered sandstone cottage on South Mountain Road, he’s made a decision. He will take a last “walk into the woods” on his beloved promontory, Low Tor, and watch his final sunset. But on his second night there he witnesses a senseless, brutal murder of a young woman by two men. After he reports the shooting to the police, they find no forensic evidence that a murder took place. When the body is eventually found on his remote hillside retreat near Lake Tiorati, he becomes the primary suspect." --,from Amazon.com.