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Clownfish Blues: A Novel

Tim Dorsey · William Morrow
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A (Serge A.) Storm is brewing for a cabal of bad guys gaming the Florida state lottery in this insanely funny novel from the maestro of mayhem, Tim Dorsey.

If you're loud and proud Floridian Serge A. Storms, how do you follow up your very own remake of Easy Rider? You shoot...

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Blood Oath: A John Jordan Mystery Book 11

Reader in Politics Michael Lister · Pulpwood Press
Pages: 302

From New York Times Bestselling author Michael Lister John Jordan is once again carrying a gun and a badge--and he's going to need them. Balancing family life with being a cop and a prison chaplain takes grit and grace--and John has plenty of both. Working two cases that may or may not be connected,...
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Lightwood

Steph Post · Polis Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Judah Cannon is the middle son of the notorious Cannon clan led by Sherwood, its unflinching and uncompromising patriarch. When Judah returns to his rural hometown of Silas, Florida after a stint in prison, he is determined to move forward and live it clean with his childhood best friend...
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Three Shot Burst

Phillip Depoy · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Former car thief and amateur sleuth Foggy Moskowitz returns in the latest noir mystery series set in Florida. Foggy Moscowitz is called to Mary's Shallow Grave, everyone's favorite bar. A man has been killed - shot three times - by a young girl. With no parents, no fixed abode,...
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Bad Blood

Hugh Dutton · Five Star

Welcome to paradise, a.k.a. Heron Point, a glamorous Florida beach community where money is the religion and excess the way of life. Newly arrived Brady Spain is oblivious to any hint of corruption beneath the glitter, seeing only a land of swaying palm trees, stunning sunsets, and hot bodies...
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Cold Florida: A Foggy Moskowitz mystery

Ilse Pollack · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Introducing former car thief and amateur sleuth Foggy Moskowitz in the first of a brand-new noir mystery series.

It's 1974. Foggy Moskowitz, a Jewish car thief on the run from the Brooklyn authorities, ends up in Florida working for the first office of Child Protective...
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Black Hammock: A noir thriller series set in Jacksonville, Florida

Michael Wiley · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 179
Format: Print book

Homicide detective Daniel Turner revisits an 18-year-old unsolved case in the third of this intriguing and atmospheric crime noir series.We had set out from Atlanta to kill my mother and her husband. A slow kill.Oren has returned to the family home he last saw when he was eight years old....
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Seduced

Randy Wayne White · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 330
Format: Print book

Hannah Smith returns in the stunning new adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series by the author of the Doc Ford novels.

A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same....
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Coastal Corpse

Marty Ambrose · Five Star a part of Gale
Format: Print book

"In her fifth outing (after Murder in the Mangroves) , island landscaper Mallie Monroe swings into action when her landlady is accused of murder. "--Library Journal
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Mortal Dilemma: A Matt Royal Mystery

H Terrell Griffin · Oceanview Pub
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Jock Algren arrives on Longboat Key in a state of depression and hopelessness. His most recent mission for his secretive U.S. government intelligence agency has been disastrous and his friends Matt Royal and J. D. Duncan aren't sure they'll be able to pull him out of his despair...
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The Styx

Jonathon King

It is legend, the burning of the Styx. For over a hundred years, the destruction of a black community on the blossoming new island of Palm Beach has been folklore. Historic photos prove the Styx existed, but century-old memories muddle the truth of its demise. What happened to a r
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