Bone Island Mambo

Author : Tom Corcoran
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429972444
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bone Island Mambo written by Tom Corcoran and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pleasant Key West Sunday in January turns into a tropical nightmare. It's early. The tourists are still asleep. Freelance and part-time crime photographer Alex Rutledge bicycles near-vacant streets, taking pictures for his own enjoyment. But he's challenged at a restoration district construction site, accused by a developer of snapping photos for an expose. An hour later, the city police request Rutledge's forensic photo expertise. A murder victim has been found - at the same work site. Detective Dexter Hayes, Jr., is caustic and inept, and Rutledge is dismissed before he completes his work. An hour later, the county sheriff, Chicken Neck Liska, asks Alex to photograph another murder victim, this time on nearby Stock Island. Rutledge soon suspects that the murders are linked - illogically, through him. He can't divulge the link to his lover, Teresa Barga, for fear of compromising her police media liaison job. Alex questions the detective's blundering, while the cops begin to link him to the crimes. A powerful real estate broker offers Rutledge an odd, lucrative job. Friends are threatened. He and Teresa dodge gunshots. Yet there is no identifiable antagonist, no motive, no reason for Rutledge to be a hub for evil. To protect himself and his friends, to avoid arrest - unsuccessfully, at first - he must scratch for information on an island where few tell the truth. At the core of Bone Island Mambo is betrayal, retribution, and revenge. The plot twists in surprising directions, and Corcoran's characters are true characters, never as laid-back as they first appear. Visit Key West, and hang on for dear life.

Author : Tom Corcoran
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312975708
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gumbo Limbo written by Tom Corcoran and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part-time Key West crime-scene photographer Alex Rutledge's vacation is cut short when an old buddy arrives in town, and promptly disappears.

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Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1615953426
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Merry Band of Murderers written by and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Corcoran
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466840382
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Octopus Alibi written by Tom Corcoran and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2004-06-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three previous novels, Tom Corcoran established himself as a shrewd observer of Key West's eccentricities and landscape. In Octopus Alibi, he delivers Alex Rutledge to labyrinths of the past, agendas of power, and greed that jumps generations. The suspected murder of a long-missing woman, the death of an elderly mentor, and the suicide of Key West's popular mayor are revealed a single April day. Rutledge, a freelance photographer with part-time forensic ties to the Monroe County Sheriff's Department and the KWPD, must accompany fishing guide and friend Sam Wheeler to identify a body in Broward County. Hours later, back on the island, a Key West detective coerces Alex into documenting Mayor Gomez's demise. Rutledge also learns he must administrate the estate of Naomi Douglas, the woman who encouraged his creative photography. Rutledge soon suspects that nothing is as it appears. The police choose not to see crimes. Only Rutledge senses foul play on the island, a linking of deaths, and the threat of more peril. Home-front troubles compound the dilemma. Teresa Barga, Alex's new housemate, is absorbed by the arrival in town of Whitney Randolph, a college friend with cash, wild stories, bent morals, and more alibis than an octopus has suckers. Randolph, it appears, has already slithered into the unfolding suspense, linking himself to scam victims and murder victims. Rutledge must ignore a relationship gone sour, then focus on wisps of clues to connect the past and present. Friends act out of character, officials become duplicitous, and threats of violence take Alex to the most dangerous confrontation of his life. Filled with edgy characters and insights to island existence, the tight plot of Octopus Alibi promises Tom Corcoran's most unforgettable tale of the hot, crazy tropics.

Author : Tom Corcoran
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429954272
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Dance Iguana written by Tom Corcoran and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men, twenty miles apart, are killed in the same strange way on a quiet summer morning in the Florida Keys. Forensic photographer Alex Rutledge finds that he may be the only person interested in pursuing justice, especially when his brother becomes a key suspect.Alex connects the current-day murders to a thirty-year-old scam amidst revenge smoldering since the Nixon years. He races time to thwart a final killing and, if possible, to prove his brother's innocence.Tom Corcoran once again delivers a deftly plotted and gripping mystery with all of the flavor and intrigue that Key West can offer.

Author : Tom Corcoran
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429972467
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gumbo Limbo written by Tom Corcoran and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Rutledge, freelance and part-time Key West crime scene photographer, awakes to his first day off in months. Late August, the off-season, the dog days. Everything's okay until his phone rings. His old navy buddy, Zack Cahill, now a successful Chicago banker, is in town and, at 8:00 a.m., drunk in Sloppy Joe's. Zack demands that Rutledge join him for a celebratory beer. When Alex arrives at the bar, eight minutes later, Cahill is gone. The day continues downhill. A high-noon murder in the tourist district, the ransacked apartment of a local bartender, and the chance encounter of Abby Womack, Cahill's ex-mistress, combine to convince Alex that Zach Cahill's disappearance may be linked to all of these events. An overnight fire and a drive-by shooting the next morning amplify the strangeness and danger. By calling in favors from a crew of Key West characters, stepping aside of law enforcement, and traveling to New Orleans in an attempt to help his friend, Rutledge will fall deep into a mysterious range war, a fight for the profits from a twenty-year-old smuggling deal.

Author : Steve Glassman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786480688
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florida Crime Writers written by Steve Glassman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines 24 crime novelists who set their work in the Sunshine State. From James W. Hall's Under Cover of Daylight in the Florida Keys, to Barbara Parker's Suspicion of Betrayal in Miami to Tim Dorsey's Florida Roadkill at Cape Canaveral and Tampa, these writers and their works span all of Florida's 67 counties. A biographical sketch of each author precedes an interview by a critic who has immersed him- or herself in the novelist's works, producing interview-essays of noteworthy perception and insight.

Author : Kenneth F. Kister
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1425717268
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florida on the Boil written by Kenneth F. Kister and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides incisive reviews of more than 300 recommended novels and short-story collections set in Florida. Numerous Florida fiction writers, past and present, are represented in the book, including such diverse talents as Edna Buchanan, Harry Crews, Connie May Fowler, and others.--Excerpted from book cover.

Author : J Wills Burke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561646431
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Streets of Key West written by J Wills Burke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simonton, Duval, Eaton, Whitehead, Southard, Truman—if you discover how these Key West streets, and all the others, came by their names, you will know much of the history of this little island at the nethermost end of the continental United States. You will learn of the rise and fall and rise again of the fortunes of this island town, which has played such a rich role in the history of the country as a whole. The author starts each section with an engaging history of the person for whom the street is named. Then he takes us along the street, pointing out the buildings and sites of historic interest along the way. This method builds and reinforces our grasp of Key West's history as the island is crisscrossed with sites that evoke nearly every aspect of its past. What emerges is a unique and quirky history of Key West, as well as a fascinating guide to wandering its streets, boulevards, alleys, and lanes.

Author : William McKeen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307592006
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mile Marker Zero written by William McKeen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at an interesting era in the history of Key West, which became the creative center of the world for a number of writers, musicians and others in the 70s, including Jimmy Buffett, Hunter S. Thompson and more. By the author of Outlaw Journalist.