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Across Florida Straits

Across Florida Straits
  • Author(s): Marvin Cook
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Recent

ACROSS FLORIDA STRAITS follows a bastard son of a young Cuban dancer growing up in an all-inclusive Soviet resort on the south of Cuba. His lothario larceny leads to entanglement with trafficking art antiquities and a desperate need to...

At First Light

At First Light
  • Author(s): Vanessa Lafaye
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1993 and 1919

1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race...

Deep Down Dead

Deep Down Dead
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): California, Florida, Georgia, West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lori Anderson is as tough as they come, managing to keep her career as a fearless Florida bounty hunter separate from her role as single mother to nine-year-old Dakota, who suffers from leukaemia. But when the hospital bills start...

Summertime

Summertime
  • Author(s): Vanessa Lafaye
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Florida, 1935. Heron Key is a small town where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp. Everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for...

Deep Dirty Truth

Deep Dirty Truth
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A price on her head. A secret worth dying for. Just 48 hours to expose the truth… Single-mother bounty hunter Lori Anderson has finally got her family back together, but her new-found happiness is shattered when she’s snatched by...

Tangerine

Tangerine
  • Author(s): Edward Bloor
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. But he’s not so blind that he can’t see there are some very unusual things about his family’s new home in Tangerine County,...

The Nickel Boys

The Nickel Boys
  • Author(s): Colson Whitehead
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead’s follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to...

Stiltsville

Stiltsville
  • Author(s): Susanna Daniel
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s onwards

Against a vivid South Florida background, Susanna Daniel’s Stiltsville offers a gripping, bittersweet portrait of a marriage—and a romance—that deepens over the course of three decades. Called “an elegantly crafted work of art and a great read” by Curtis Sittenfeld (American...

A Land Remembered

A Land Remembered
  • Author(s): Patrick D Smith
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): mid 1800s onwards

A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine. In this, Florida’s favorite novel, Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the...

Backhand

Backhand
  • Author(s): Liza Cody
  • Location(s): London, Sarasota
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Featuring Anna Lee, on the tennis court, where she is asked to investigate a missing person.the investigation becomes increasingly complex, taking Anna from London to Sarasota, Florida, where she is drawn into the underworld of high finance, violence, and...

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