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Naked Came the Manatee

Naked Came the Manatee
  • Author(s): Carl Hiaasen et al
  • Location(s): Florida, Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Various

In South Florida, everyone wants to get a head. But not just any head. A very famous human head–severed and snugged away in a cryonic container. A head that could spark a revolution and change the course of history....

Rush of Blood

Rush of Blood
  • Author(s): Mark Billingham
  • Location(s): England, Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder… Three couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on their last night, their perfect holiday takes a tragic twist: the teenage daughter of another...

Someone is Watching

Someone is Watching
  • Author(s): Joy Fielding
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As a special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is smart, savvy, and fearless. When she’s assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad in the middle of the night, Bailey thinks nothing of the potential dangers,...

Swamplandia!

Swamplandia!
  • Author(s): Karen Russell
  • Location(s): Everglades
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Swamplandia! is the one-of-a-kind tale of Ava Bigtree and her family’s gator-wrestling theme park in the Everglades. When Ava’s mom, the park’s headlining attraction, passes away, the family struggles to keep the park open and out of the hands...

The Beekeeper

The Beekeeper
  • Author(s): Juliet Moore
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Miami homicide detective Elizabeth Stratton knows she’s lucky to still have a job, but she’s tired of only getting the easy cases. She’ll never be able to regain the respect of her colleagues without a chance to prove she’s...

The Forgotten

The Forgotten
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): Destin, Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Military criminal investigator John Puller is drawn closer to home when his aunt is found dead in her house in Paradise, Florida. The local police have ruled the death as an accident, but Puller finds evidence to suggest that...

Hot Tea #1

Hot Tea #1
  • Author(s): Sheila Horgan
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In Hot Tea, Cara O’Flynn finds herself in an unusual position. She’s quit her job and can afford to take a few weeks to find a new career, plus, her roommate has run off and left her with an...

The Blood of Heaven

The Blood of Heaven
  • Author(s): Kent Wascom
  • Location(s): Florida, Natchez, New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

It is 1861, and Angel Woolsack is a Confederate about to breathe his last, as the Union forces make their inexorable approach. Rejected by his wife, his wealth no longer useful to him, he sets about recording his testament....

The Academy – Game On

The Academy – Game On
  • Author(s): Monica Seles
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

The Academy is the hottest international sports school for teen athletes. There are only two ways in: money – and lots of it – or enough talent to earn a scholarship. Young tennis star Maya’s dreams have finally come...

Tampa

Tampa
  • Author(s): Alissa Nutting
  • Location(s): Tampa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession...

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