Friend of the Devil

Danforth Putnam is an exclusive boarding school on an island off the coast of Massachusetts. The students there are a combination of privileged nonconformists and wards of the state. When a book goes missing from the library vault, insurance investigator Sam Gregory is called in to find it. He encounters divas, jocks, geeks, and the oddest faculty ever. When students begin to disappear, Sam discovers that there are mysterious forces at work on the island. Intrepid student Harriet is both saved by and saves Sam. The resulting bond helps them to solve the mystery and survive its unveiling. This is TV writer and producer Lloyd’s (Modern Family; How I Met Your Mother) debut novel. He combines the hard-boiled detective genre with horror, carnage, and laugh-out-loud humor. His characters are saintly and demonic, often at the same time.