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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...

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...

Hemingway’s Girl

Hemingway’s Girl
  • Author(s): Erika Robuck
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Ernest Hemingway, his second wife, Pauline, (who followed on after Hadley) and their two sons have come to live in Key West. Mariella Bennet, an 18 year old young woman comes to works as a maid in the Hemingway...

The Ghosts of Havana

The Ghosts of Havana
  • Author(s): Mike Dennis
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern, 20th century

Nightclub singer Olivia si found murdered, and her sister and the club owner find themselves up to their necks in this tale of revenge. Olivia’s grandfather died in a similar manner decades earlier. Coincidence?

The Longest Holiday

The Longest Holiday
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Don’t wait for the storm to pass: learn to dance in the rain…’ Laura has been married to the man of her dreams for seven months. But a week before the wedding, Matthew made a terrible mistake. Escaping the...

The Way You Look Tonight

The Way You Look Tonight
  • Author(s): Richard Madeley
  • Location(s): Boston, Florida Keys, New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Not until she was 16 did Stella Arnold learn the full truth about her father, how handsome, charming James turned out to be a cold-blooded, psychotic extortionist, racketeer and killer. Knowing now what her father was capable of, she...

Turtle in Paradise

Turtle in Paradise
  • Author(s): Jennifer L Holm
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

n Jennifer L. Holm’s New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle grade historical fiction novel, life isn’t like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She’s smart and tough and has seen enough of...

Mrs Nash’s Ashes

Mrs Nash’s Ashes
  • Author(s): Sarah Adler
  • Location(s): East Coast USA, Key West
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day looking back to 1940s/50s

Former childhood star and die-hard romantic Millie is bound for Key West from Washington DC, determined to fulfil a promise to her elderly best friend, Mrs Nash, by reuniting her ashes with her long-lost love. And if this grand...

Breaking

Breaking
  • Author(s): Amanda Cassidy
  • Location(s): Florida Keys, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a sun-hazed afternoon in the Florida Keys, a child goes missing from the beach. Dr Mirren Fitzpatrick appeals to the world to help find her eight-year-old adopted daughter. The family are on holiday from Ireland, far from home...

Flashback

Flashback
  • Author(s): Nevada Barr
  • Location(s): Florida Keys
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Running from a proposal of marriage, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key...

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