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Include books by the same authorDevil Bones
Kathy Reichs · 315 pages
The eleventh gripping Temperance Brennan thriller from world-class forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs, no.1 bestselling author of Break No Bones and Bones to AshesAn underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint...In the dark cellar, a ritualistic display is revealed. A human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens and bizarre f
Hothouse Orchid
Stuart Woods · 294 pages
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 Bea
Deceived
Randy Wayne White · 352 pages
Hannah Smith uncovers a museum scam that is seeking contributions from her neighbors and friends in Sulfur Springs while investigating a twenty-year-old cold case. A twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pothauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and
The Night Stalker
James Swain · 348 pages
Hard-edged, evocative, brilliantly paced, James Swain's novels of crime and punishment in South Florida delve into a shadowy realm where criminals, victims, and cops share the same truths, the same lies, and sometimes even the same nightmares.Abb Grimes is famous. Just ask the ghoulish tourists who flock to his former home to take photographs. Years ago, Grimes killed eighteen women, some never fo
Garden of Evil
Edna Buchanan · 308 pages
A beautiful killer appears in Miami, seducing men and shooting them in the genitals. Reporter Britt Montero is assigned to interview her. The killer abducts and takes her on a gruesome murder spree.
A False Dawn
Tom Lowe · 340 pages
After thirteen years as a homicide detective, his wife dead, and his best friend shot in a robbery, Sean O'Brien feels like he's been through a war. He leaves the streets of Miami for a simpler life on the banks of the St. Johns River near the Ocala National Forest. What he discovers there, however, opens a dark door to something more frightening than anything he ever investigated in Miami.
The Turquoise Lament
John D. MacDonald · 257 pages
Travis McGee #15 “Now that Linda "Pidge" Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband is trying to kill her. McGee checks things out, and gives Pidge the all clear. But when Pidge and Howie sail away to kiss and make up, McGee has second thoughts. If only he can get to Pidge before he has time for
Tropic of Night
Michael Gruber · 438 pages
E-book extra: Afterword by Michael GruberJane Doe is nothing, a shadow. Once a promising anthropologist, she's now hiding from an unimaginable horror. Miami police detective Jimmy Paz knows that Jane is connected to the ritualistic murders terrifying the city. Together, they must battle a psychopath whose shamanistic powers can alter reality itself.
Motor Mouth
Janet Evanovich · 374 pages
Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there's a body on ice. And that's just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First there was Hooker and that salescl
Dying to Retire
Jessica Fletcher · 260 pages
Jessica Fletcher is in a Florida retirement community for the funeral of a dear old friend whose heart gave out-only to discover that the woman's death from natural causes may have been artificially induced.With the help of a feisty group of young-in-spirit retirees, Jessica must track down the clues and find out who prescribed the fatal treatment...
Fatal Reservations
Lucy Burdette · 358 pages
"Hayley Snow looks forward to reviewing For Goodness Sake, a new floating restaurant that promises a fresh take on Japanese delicacies like flambéed grouper with locally sourced seaweed. But nearby land-based restaurateurs would rather see their buoyant competition sink. Sent to a City Commission meeting to cover the controversy, Hayley witnesses another uproar. The quirky performers of the daily
Dying to Call You
Elaine Viets · 359 pages
While making the best of her new telemarketing job, Helen Hawthorne thinks she hears a murder on the other end of the line-and must avoid a close call with a killer.
Mama Gets Hitched
Deborah Sharp · 377 pages
According to Mama, a Gone with the Wind-themed wedding - including a ring-bearing Pomeranian - is just fine for her fifth trip down the aisle. But what's a bridezilla to do when the caterer is murdered? Mama's gator-wrestling daughter Mace is getting the dirt on who did it, but the suspect list is longer than the gift registry. Now Mace must track down the killer before Mama's Special Day turns es
The Sinister Omen
Carolyn Keene · 199 pages
While on vacation in Fort Lauderdale, Nancy and her friends help a wealthy woman plagued with burglars who don't steal anything.
Fat Chance
Rhonda Pollero · 347 pages
Finley isn't just a Palm Beach paralegal-- she's a fashionista-turned-crime-fighter who knows a bad guy-- and a good bargain-- when she sees one. When the girl is sandwiched between sexy P.I. McGarrity and her hot new boss, defense attorney Caprelli, she can only be headed for commitment.
Double Exposure
Michael Lister
When Remington James returns to the small North Florida town he grew up in, he decides to resume his love for photography. Remington ventures into the deep swamp where he has already set up some cameras to discover that his camera has captured, frame-by-frame a shocking crime.
Key Lime Pie
Josi S. Kilpack
Part-time detective and full-time food lover Sadie Hoffmiller has traveled to the Florida Keys to help her new friend, Eric, track down the whereabouts of his missing daughter, Megan.
There Was A Little Girl
Ed McBain · 329 pages
Florida attorney Matthew Hope gets shot after some routine legal work for a circus turns into an investigation of the death of a dwarf.
Goldie Vance Vol. 2
Hope Larson · 112 pages
Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place. Her mom, who divorced her dad years ago, works as a live mermaid at a club downtown. Goldie has an insatiable curiosity, which explains her dream to one day become the hotel's in-house detective. When Charles, the current detective, encounters a case he can't crack, he agrees to mentor Goldie in