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1) Choke
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Chuck Chandler, a tennis coach in an exclusive Florida club, meets wealthy Harry Carras and is impressed by his tennis, but even more so by his wife. A ladies' man, he promptly sleeps with her, then gets a shock when he is accused of murdering Carras.
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While his mother and doorman Dave celebrate their wedding, Timmy visits Florida where he forges a new partnership with Dave's nephew, Emilio, when a surprise newcomer shows up and he encounters a thieving six-toed cat.
3) Tripwire
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former military policeman Major Jack Reacher goes to the rescue of a 30-year-old woman lawyer he last saw when she was 15. She is the daughter of Reacher's late commanding officer and some nasty land swindlers want her dead. By the author of Die Trying.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. Nina's secret life began nineteen years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she...
6) Trap Line
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
A Key West fishing captain takes on Florida's drug lords in an underground war that could cost him his freedom - and his life. Though he is one of Key West's most skilled fishing captains, Breeze Albury barely ekes out a living on the meager earnings of his trade. Meanwhile, Cuban and Colombian drug smugglers thrive all around - and they have their sights set on Albury and his fishing boat. After the smugglers cut his three hundred trap lines and...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaine's and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. His luck seems to improve when he's hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy man -- lucky because the job pays well, and because the son is hiding in the tropical paradise of Key West. But when Stone and his sometime running buddy Dino Bacchetti arrive in the sunny keys, it appears someone has been lying in...
10) Air dance iguana
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
11) Echoes of evil
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brodie McFadden is supposed to be on vacation, getting some sunshine and deciding if he wants to join his brothers and the Krewe of Hunters, a special paranormal investigation unit of the FBI. But a diving excursion with an old navy buddy to a historic shipwreck uncovers a crime scene - and the corpse is new. Museum curator Dakota "Kody" McCoy just wants her Key West culture festival to succeed. She's always had a deep connection to her home, including...
12) Wrecker
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep-dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.
13) Mile zero
Author
Publisher
A. A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
In Key West a former 1960s activist, St. Cloud crosses paths with three people whose presence forces him to reengage with life.
14) Dead run
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
When Rachel Ames disappears after leaving a strange message on her sister's answering machine, Liz Ames heads to Key West to find out what's happened. With the help of a former cop, she begins to uncover an evil that they may not be able to escape, even at a dead run.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Laurence Shames has attracted enthusiastic fans with his Key West novels, which include Florida Straits, Mangrove Squeeze, Scavenger Reef, and Sunburn. Each of these books is a hilarious mixture of zany crimes and offbeat characters. Welcome to Paradise is his best yet. When Al Marracotta, Mafia boss, takes a week's vacation in Key West, he looks forward to days of sun, sex, and seafood. Alan Tuschman, New Jersey furniture salesman, is a reluctant...
18) Ghost Moon
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Reclusive collector Cutter Merlin is seldom seen in Key West--lately, not at all. Officer Liam Beckett visits Merlin's curious house and discovers the gentleman in his study. In his death grip: a volume of occult lore and a reliquary. His eyes are wide with fright, his mouth a horrified rictus where spiders now dwell. Kelsey Donovan returns to the old house to catalog her estranged grandfather's collection of artifacts and antiquities, vowing to...
Author
Series
Timmy Failure volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Timmy finds himself in Key West, which ia a hotbed of criminals.