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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...

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 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...

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...

Forever’s Just Pretend

Forever’s Just Pretend
  • Author(s): Craig McDonald
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Key West, 1925: the USA’s southernmost point and the most un-American of American locales; a rowdy border town surrounded by water and populated by sports fishermen, naval veterans and Cuban revolutionists – misfits and mavericks, all. After several years...

Mangrove Squeeze

Mangrove Squeeze
  • Author(s): Laurence Shames
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Fun, comedic crime romp through Key West.

The American Boyfriend

The American Boyfriend
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Phoebe Wong would do anything to escape a British winter. But it may cost her more than her airfare. Sunsets, tacos and margaritas all sound perfect to exhausted forty-three-year-old single mum Phoebe with a dead-end job in Southwark. When...

The Last Train to Key West

The Last Train to Key West
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Key West
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1935

Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labour Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s...

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