Sarah Luger

The Summer of '84 was Murder....

She had a heart like a race horse. She was the star player on a mediocre team. She was fifteen years old. It took her forty-five minutes to die.

April 4th, 1984. Fidelis, CA- Star volleyball player Sarah Luger is stabbed to death on her front doorstep coming home from a party. After the biggest manhunt in Aurora county history, Det Lt. Charles Sariano is called in to investigate, and finds that in Fidelis, nothing is what it seems.

Police describe the scene as "...grisly beyond description." Fidelis, where the kids go to Ivy League schools and PAC-10 Universities, where the pressure to succeed is overwhelming, where status is everything, is turned upside down.

Sarah Luger is a gripping murder mystery, a coming of age story, and also a profoundly moving story of a town full of secrets where "it can't happen here."

"The revolving flashbacks add a layer of psychological intrigue that increasingly ratchet up the dramatic tension, mounting, at last, to a surprising conclusion...I would recommend it to any fan of hardboiled noir fiction."
- Broken Pencil magazine

"Sarah Luger author Sebastian Corbascio takes readers inside the minds of the characters in this tightly plotted, un-put-down-able old fashioned murder mystery. Read this late at night at your own risk, you may not go to sleep as soon as you like."
- Joel Selvin. San Francisco Chronicle Rock Critic, and author of Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hell's Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day.