Deborah Brown is the author of the Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series.
According to her online bio, her favorite activity is filling her pockets with seashells and there’s nothing she likes more than a strawberry-lemonade in summer.
She lives on the Florida Gulf Coast.
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Crazy in Paradise
Published: 2011The Florida Keys has everything for your perfect vacation. Beaches, beverages, and betrayals. Madison Westin inherits a whole lot more than her aunt’s quaint beachfront cottages. Taking on a slew of colorful and shady tenants, Madison navigates a whole new world of drunks, ex-convicts, and fugitives. But all new businesses…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Deception in Paradise
Published: 2012It didn’t take long for the quirky beach town of Tarpon Cove to figure out that I’m the girl who can’t say no. Not to someone needing a free ride to the probation office. Not to Glock-rocking Fab when she needs backup. Definitely not to sexy P.I. Zach when he’s…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Trouble in Paradise
Published: 2013What is big news in small town Tarpon Cove? An accidental drowning or perhaps a ruthless murder? When a dead fisherman rolls up on shore, Madison cannot resist jumping into her new role as Private Investigator. But she soon discovers the people in The Cove who normally gossip about everybody’s…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Murder in Paradise
Published: 2014Overlooking the waters of the Biscayne Bay sits a mansion where all hell has broken loose. Madison Westin has found herself and her bombshell best friend, Fabiana Merceau, caught up in deep trouble—yet again. This time, Fab is implicated as the only suspect in a high-profile double homicide on a…Read More
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Greed in Paradise
Published: 2014Beautiful sandy beaches, hot bodies, and margaritas by the pool; the infamous duo are loving life in paradise! This time, the girls find themselves written into the will of a friend and business partner, although his death seems anything but cut-and-dried. The steamy climate heats up even more as sexual…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Revenge in Paradise
Published: 2014When a man of questionable character’s corpse is found at The Cottages, beaten to death with Madison’s own gardening tools, she and her partner, Fab, set out to prove that the man’s abused girlfriend did not kill him. Along the way, Madison finds herself behind bars twice, held hostage in…Read More
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Kidnapped in Paradise
Published: 2015In the Florida Keys, trouble is brewing along with the coffee. Friends Madison Westin and Fabiana Merceau search for the mastermind behind gruesome warnings showing up on their doorstep. Fab’s infamous new partner and Madison’s reappearing ex-husband complicate matters in this sexy and humorous action-adventure, the seventh installment of the…Read More
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Swindled in Paradise
Published: 2015Sexy sleuths Madison and Fab race to uncover the truth behind a horrific crime… before a loved one pays the ultimate price. Beautiful Tarpon Cove has everything you’d expect from a paradise retreat: Blue waters, white sand and … murder? With deadly secrets and dark dealings brewing beneath the surface…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Executed in Paradise
Published: 2016When a body turns up at the Cottages, Madison and Fab, the sexy sleuths are on the case. But when the killer makes a habit of discarding bodies on Madison’s property… it’s personal. While on the hunt for the killer, the duo track down a double-crossing bail jumper, repossess a…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Hurricane in Paradise
Published: 2016Set against the steamy backdrop of Tarpon Cove’s sun-kissed, tropical waters, sexy sleuths and best friends Madison and Fab are at it again dealing with the occasional dead body. Hidden just below the surface of the small town lies an underworld, one steeped in deceit, corruption, and deadly secrets. It’s…Read More
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Ambushed in Paradise
Published: 2017The Keys is a great place to hide a seashell bucket full of secrets. Creole…shot…dead. Three words Madison Westin never thought she’d hear in the same sentence. Creole promised. He pinky swore on it. But even through a blur of tears fed by prescription-strength margaritas, Madison can tell when things…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Christmas in Paradise
Published: 2017My name is Madison Westin. Unless it’s Christmas, in which case my official title is “Holiday Cheermistress.” Nothing stops me from getting my ho-ho-ho on, not even my friends’ Grinch-worthy attitude toward sparkling tinsel, twinkling lights, and tinkling bells. Hey, if Creole, Fab, and Didier wind up with coal in…Read More
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Lottery in Paradise
Published: 2017Meet the crime-solving duo of the Florida Keys: Madison who has all the charm of the girl next door, not to mention a deadly aim and Fab, her best friend, a femme fatale private investigator with a taste for danger and stilettos. When their neighbor is found dead, the headlines…Read More
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Blownup in Paradise
Published: 2018I’ve come a long way since inheriting my Aunt Elizabeth’s Tarpon Cove house and her beach cottages full of quirky residents. I strap a Glock to my thigh as easily as I slip into flip-flops. Even Fab is going legit… mostly. When she’s hired to investigate some high-end boat thefts…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Psycho in Paradise
Published: 2018In the Florida Keys, you have to take the shady with the sunny. And Tarpon Cove has more than fifty shades of shady going on. Shady No. 1: When Brad is framed using the dead body of his crazy ex-girlfriend, the Westin family—which now includes Fab, Didier, and Creole by…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Overdose in Paradise
Published: 2018A woman’s been found dead in Dr. A’s beach house, facedown in enough cocaine to put him away for life. It’s going to take more than trading a couple of favors to help the doctor, who’s always been there for Madison, no questions asked, no blood left behind. Hard as…Read More
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Initiation in Paradise
Published: 2019Margaritas, mangroves, murder. Just another day at the office. One minute, Madison Weston and her bestie, Fab, are tailing Creole and Didier to figure out what they’re hiding. The next, a hail of bullets sends them swamp slogging for their lives. So much for cute shoes. Eventually, Creole and Didier…Read More
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Jealous in Paradise
Published: 2019There’s always one party crasher in the crowd. But Madison Weston and her bestie, Fab Merceau, could have never guessed that the plus-one at their newly renovated hotel’s grand opening would be a dead body. This isn’t the first unsolved murder in Beachside’s colorful past. While a ghost haunting the…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Vanished in Paradise
Published: 2020Madison Westin lives by the Unbreakable Rule of IOUs: When it’s time to collect, no whining allowed. So, when the four kids of an undercover Miami detective temporarily land in her care, she doesn’t panic. She raises a village—more accurately, the motley crew of The Cottages—to lend a hand. Things…Read More
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Fraud in Paradise
Published: 2020Don’t you ever stay out of trouble? I get that question a lot. It’s fair—weirdness and nutjobs cling to Tarpon Cove like seagrass in a tangle of mangrove roots. And a dead body found near The Cottages is an excuse to line up the lawn chairs, pass the margaritas, and…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Naive in Paradise
Published: 2020Luck – and a few well-placed IOUs – can take you a long way in the Florida Keys. In the case of a young woman that stumbles onto a remote beach road, practically in front of Madison Weston and her bestie, Fabiana Merceau, it saves her life. Fab and their…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Bodies in Paradise
Published: 2021In the Florida Keys, the tops are down, the margaritas are cold, and water is murder. Madison and Fab’s morning coffee comes with a side dish of witnessing two bodies being dumped at the end of their boat dock. And gossip is flying around Tarpon Cove faster than a cigarette…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series
Accused in Paradise
Published: 2021It sucks to be caught off guard, especially before coffee on what’s otherwise a perfect, sunny, Florida Keys day. Luckily, Madison and Fabiana have friends who owe favors on speed dial. Travis West, a shady Miami lawyer with a swanky address, is dead, and the prime suspect is Tarpon Cove’s…Read More
Categories: Deborah Brown , Humorous Fiction , Paradise Florida Keys Mystery Series