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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 264 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Superior Club is where Fort Lauderdale's wealthiest - and snobbiest - come to play. But for Helen Hawthorne, it's all work and no play. As a customer care clerk, it's her job to cater to the clients' every little whim and take care of their every little problem. But Helen has a very big problem of her own. After an acrimonious reunion with her ex-husband Rob, she ends up belting the bum in the mouth - which invites suspicion when Rob goes ominously...
22) Scat
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
23) Hothouse orchid
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Holly Barker returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, and faces off against an old nemesis--the man she brought charges against for sexual harassment, attempted rape, and rape. The army officer in question was acquitted of all charges, and is now Orchid Beach's new police chief. Will Holly return to the CIA? Or will she challenge her old nemesis for control of the Orchid Beach Police Department?
25) Basket case
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, middle-aged Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily. When Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dies in a diving "accident, " Jack uses clues from the singer's own music to unravel the mystery and resurrect his career in the process.
26) Blood orchid
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chief of Police Holly Barker is trying to get her life back in order after the loss of her fiance, but someone is shooting at her friends and a body is floating in the Intercoastal Waterway. She, Daisy, her Doberman, and her father, Ham, join forces with an FBI agent to try to connect these apparently unconnected violent events.
Author
Series
Sanibel Island mystery volume 3
Publisher
Shovel & Pail Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When reporter Guinivere Jones went looking for a cozy little beach cottage on Sanibel Island, Florida, a dead body was definitely not on her must-have list...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Those hilarious southern sisters, who prove that sibling rivalry never ends, are heading for a vacation at the beach. Mary Alice's flamboyant behavior aside, serious, sensible Patricia Anne looks forward to relaxing at her sister's beachfront condo in Destin, Florida, so she kisses her ever-loving spouse Fred god-bye, reminds him to water the plants and feed the dog, and the girls head south for some fin in the sun. Mary Alice loses no time in making...
31) The island
Author
Language
English
Description
While walking on the beach, Beth Anderson stumbles upon a human skull, which then disappears, and it is only when a body washes up on shore that people believe her story, especially Keith Henson, a stranger who follows her every move.
32) Skin tight
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Bestselling author Carl Hiaasen serves up a humorous helping of "taut, fast-paced action...crisp and hot” (The New York Times).
After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can't deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator, Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits....
After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can't deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator, Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits....
33) Twenty
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novel volume 17
Language
English
Description
A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
After a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties at Riverside Day School, the tragedy prompts mass hysteria--and dangerous speculation. The police haven't identified the shooter, but a handgun found on the school grounds is registered to a...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane. Patrolling the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to retrieve them. But when the crew opens this cooler, they're shocked to find body parts tightly wrapped in plastic. Though she is putting herself in the projected path of the hurricane, Special...
35) Something fishy
Author
Series
Sanibel Island mystery volume 2
Publisher
Shovel & Pail Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When reporter Guinivere Jones's ex-husband shows up on Sanibel and then becomes the chief suspect in a crime, Guin is lured into helping him. Can she reel in her emotions and catch the killer?
36) Predator
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston; one that at first appears as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team-Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli-to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows,...
37) Fortunate harbor
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Series
Language
English
Description
Join five women connected only by their growing friendship and the road that runs like a lifeline between their cottages in a run-down Florida development called Happiness Key. Tracy Deloche finally gets a chance to swap business for a romantic evening, until she spots her ex-husband prowling around. Janya Kapur envies every pregnant woman she sees, but her husband is reluctant to talk about children. Waitress Wanda Gray loses her job, and neighbor...
38) Camino winds
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen--even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime... Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce decides...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. She is a lawyer, not a cop, and it is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business with a new identity. He now goes by the name Greg Myers, and he claims...