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Sand, Surf and Suspense @ your Library®
Florida
Mysteries
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Floridians love a good suspense novel especially
one set in our own locale. The setting may be the mangrove covered shoals of the
Florida Keys or the fast paced nightlife of downtown Miami. The suspect may be a
crusty native or a suspicious northerner. Our investigator may be a savvy lawyer,
a retired detective or an intuitive housewife whose friends may be of the unreliable
seedy sort or an old acquaintance. Corpses may show up in odd places like the trunk
of the suspect’s car or found by the nose of a curious dachshund. Our hero may find
him or herself in an expanding web of lies, and suspicious behavior. Whether your
reading preference is under a wide floral beach umbrella with sand between your toes
or listening while commuting on I-95 with a cup of java, we are all on the look out
for that next great read. So dive on in and try one of the following new suspense
novels by some of our local authors.
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Field of Fire by James O. Born
"Since returning from Bosnia, ATF agent
Alex "Rocket" Duarte has been slowly reacclimating to life in South Florida.
But when a gunrunner's car explodes, Duarte's life kicks into high gear in a
high-profile hunt for what appears to be a serial bomber. Teamed up with a
lawyer from the Department of Justice who herself is looking into possibly
related bombings in Virginia and Seattle, Duarte crisscrosses the country,
following the bomber and hoping to anticipate his next move, but as he peels
away the layers of deception, the lines between friends and enemies begin to
blur - and the results are explosive."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Love Kills by Edna Buchanan
The heroine of eight of Buchanan’s acclaimed novels, Britt Montero
joins forces with the Cold Case Squad. Solving the mystery of the
Honeymoon Killer while helping the Cold Case Squad find a killer
of their own, Britt has to brave the dark waters of her heart and
put old hurts behind her.
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Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund by Blaize Clement
"Everybody who loves dachshunds knows about
their adventurous streak. So when Mame, the elderly dachshund
in Dixie Hemingway's care, gets away from her to investigate
a mound of mulch, Dixie isn't surprised. What the dachshund
digs up, however, is not only a surprise but triggers a set
of jolting events that puts Dixie at the center of a hunt for
a psychopathic killer, a killer who believes Dixie saw him
leaving the scene of a brutal murder."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey
"Welcome to another typical summer in Florida, the season
of the storms. Serge storms. That lovable, under-undermedicated
dispenser of truth, justice, and trivia is back with a
vengeance. And not a weirdness-laced moment too soon. His
cherished home state is about to take a beating, and from far
more than the way-too-routine conga line of hurricanes bearing
down on the peninsula. Bodies have begun turning up at a
disturbing rate, even for Florida, and it looks like a brutal
serial killer is on the loose, which highly offends Serge's
moral sensibilities and he vows to stop at nothing in his
juggernaut to make All Things Right ... except if he gets bored
or distracted by a cool souvenir or ... or a ... whatever." --BOOK JACKET. |
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Straits of Fortune by Anthony Gagliano
"Ex-cop Jack Vaughn moved from the gritty streets of New York to Miami
to work as a personal trainer. The sun, sand, and tanned bodies of Miami are a welcome
distraction from the haunting memory of another cop's death in New York. But when he
becomes involved with millionaire businessman Colonel Patterson, he realizes his
newfound peace is short-lived." "The Colonel offers Jack a hundred grand to do a
seemingly simple favor. But getting involved with the Colonel also means getting
involved with his daughter, the exotic wild child Vivian, who once broke Jack's heart.
Jack had sworn to forget her, but this memorable cast of characters lures him back into
their double-dealing circle." "The deeper he gets, the more Jack finds himself entangled
in an ever-expanding web of lies, lust, and violence. A dark, hard-boiled look at the
dangerous underbelly of glamorous Miami, Straits of Fortune is a debut novel."--BOOK
JACKET. |
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When Darkness Falls by James Grippando
"Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck isn't
looking for a new client, at least not one who is homeless and in jail
for threatening to jump off a bridge. But from the moment Jack is
called to defend the man, who goes by the name Falcon, something is
amiss. For one thing, Falcon comes up with the $10,000 bail - in cash.
Then the body of a brutally murdered woman is found in the trunk of the
abandoned car in which he is living." "Panicked and on the run, Falcon
takes Jack's best friend, Theo, hostage. They end up barricaded in a
motel room, and Theo isn't the only one at Falcon's mercy. Jack must work
with the cops and their crackerjack negotiator to free Theo and the other
captives before Falcon decides he has nothing to lose by killing them all."
"What Jack doesn't know is that Falcon has a much bigger agenda, and that
there are people behind the scenes who will stop at nothing to keep their
dangerous secrets."--BOOK JACKET.
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Magic City by James W. Hall
"Based on real events and newly declassified documents, Magic City
is to Miami what L.A. Confidential and Chinatown were to Los Angeles. It evokes a
time in our nation's history when powerful men were willing to do whatever they
thought necessary to achieve their goals." "A simple black and white photograph
taken during the 1964 Cassius Clay-Sonny Liston fight on Miami Beach may hold the
key to a horrific, politically motivated crime. When the photo suddenly appears
forty-two years later on display at a trendy Miami gallery opening, it is burned
in an act of arson that sets off a modern-day murder spree, reaching from the quiet
neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House." --BOOK JACKET. |
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Wreckers Key by Christine Kling
"In the 1800s, Key West was built by wrecking skippers
who in feats of derring-do raced to shipping disasters to save valuable
cargos from the ocean depths. Today, as too many boats chase too few wrecks,
salvage has turned into a cutthroat corporate enterprise. Seychelle Sullivan,
who pilots a tug her father built by hand, is unable and unwilling to compete.
She is overwhelmed by issues of love, trust, motherhood, career, and family.
But when a friend is killed, Seychelle begins to suspect a
chilling scenario: that modern-day wreckers are causing yachts
to crash onto the reefs - and killing off whoever gets in the
way." --BOOK JACKET.
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Hunter’s Moon by Randy Wayne White
When Ford saves from assassination a controversial former President
of the United States who is staying on an island off Florida's west coast, he has no
idea what he's just let himself in for. Kal Wilson knows that he has only a short time
to live, and he has a full agenda. Just months before, his wife was killed in a plane
crash while carrying medical supplies to Nicaragua - a tragic accident, everyone agreed,
except Wilson is sure it was no accident, and he intends to do something about it. All he
needs right now is someone to spring him loose from his security detail, keep him alive for
two weeks, and then get him back. And that someone is Ford...whether he likes it or not...
Rich with passion and vivid, pungent prose and some of the best characters found in suspense
fiction today, Hunter's Moon is White's most remarkable novel yet. |
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Posted: 9/13/07 |
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