For friendly, easygoing furniture salesman Al Tuschman, frizzy hair is the least of his problems. Before he’d left New Jersey for a week’s vacation in Key West, he hadn’t an enemy in the world. But a series of puzzling assaults on his privacy, his sanity, and his life has turned…
Mangrove Squeeze
Key West seduces people–then asks them to leave in the morning. Take Aaron Katz. He chucked his NY nine-to-five to restore the Mangrove Arms, a rotting wreck of a guest house. Suki Sperakis, aspiring journalist, sees opportunity in Florida, too, though in the meantime she’s peddling ad space for a…
Virgin Heat
Mafia princess Angelina Amaro has only ever loved one man-and that lone affair was never consummated. Why not? Because her would-be lover, Sal Martucci, fled into the Witness Protection Program after ratting out Angelina’s father. When Sal is discovered working as a bartender in Key West, the wildly dysfunctional Amaro…
Tropical Depression
When Murray Zemelman, a.k.a. The Bra King, pops another Prozac and heads to the Keys, he has nothing much in mind beyond a quixotic hope of winning back his first wife, Franny, whom he dumped years before. But when he forms an unlikely friendship with Tommy Tarpon, the last remaining…
Sunburn
t’s not easy being the Godfather. All those secrets and all that guilt add up to a terrible burden–a weight that’s killing Vincente Delgatto. When the old man travels to Key West for a visit with his illegitimate son–Joey Goldman, the unlikely hero of FLORIDA STRAITS–Joey floats the idea of…
Scavenger Reef
“In this business, nothing is as good as dead…” The business in question is the high-end art world, and everyone in this darkly comedic mystery wants a piece of it. When painter Augie Silver is lost at sea in a sailing accident, his many friends among Key West’s artists, writers,…
Florida Straits
“People go to Key West for lots of different reasons. Joey Goldman went there to become a gangster…” So begins this classic Key West caper, the hilarious and touching book that launched a much-loved series and introduced the world to Bert the Shirt and his chihuahua Don Giovanni, two of…
Turtle Cove: The Case of Grandpa’s Dentures: A Short Florida Gulf Coast Mystery
It’s still hot. It’s still humid. It’s still Florida. Nolan’s at it again. Just when things were getting back to normal a toothache sends him spiraling into the Florida vortex. Unable to pay the bill he barters with the dentist. Because, of course you can barter for dental work in…
Turtle Cove: A Florida Gulf Coast Mystery
Nolan Parker just wants to relax, paint some turtles, and toss a ball with the dog. But…Things aren’t going as planned.What starts out as a side hustle to pay for wifi and dog treats, ends up with Nolan chasing a teenage runaway around the beaches of Florida trying not to…
Scatman Dues
When Bobbie and Grayson head back to Plant City to help out some old friends, they run into a “hole” new set of problems. While investigating a rash of missing persons, it’s not long before they get under each other’s skin. What’s making them all hot and bothered? Each other.…