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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...

Harry Lipkin P.I.

Harry Lipkin P.I.
  • Author(s): Barry Fantoni
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Harry Lipkin is a tough-talking, soft-chewing, rough-around-the-edges, slow-around-the-corners private investigator who carries a .38 along with a spare set of dentures. Harry specializes in the sort of cases that cops can’t be bothered with, but knows where to find...

King of Cuba

King of Cuba
  • Author(s): Cristina Garcia
  • Location(s): Havana, Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

El Comandante, an aging Castro-like dictator shambles about his mansion in Havana, visits a dying friend, tortures hunger strikers in one of his prisons, and grapples with the stale end of his life that is as devoid of grandeur...

Love Game

Love Game
  • Author(s): Emma Rae
  • Location(s): Miami, Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can a player on the court be a keeper at home? Elle’s love language is food. But finding the right kind of work in her industry is difficult. After multiple different stints and temporary work, she lands her dream...

Miami Blues

Miami Blues
  • Author(s): Charles Willeford
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Ex-con Freddy ‘Junior’ Frenger lands in Miami with three stolen wallets and plans for a new life of crime, and leaves the airport with a snatched suitcase and the corpse of a Hare Krishna behind him. Homicide detective Hoke...

Miami Noir

Miami Noir
  • Author(s): Les Standiford
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

A host of new noir talents reveal the dark and delicious side of paradise. From its earliest days as a raw-boned settlement to the contemporary landscape of palms, towering condos and bikinis, Miami has always been a beacon for...

Bloody Miami

Bloody Miami
  • Author(s): Tom Wolfe
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

What sex was to Sigmund Freud, status is to Mr Wolfe: the ultimate drive. In this, his first novel in eight years, Magdalena, the girlfriend of his protagonist, Nestor Camacho, an officer with the Miami Marine Patrol, longs to...

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....

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,...

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...

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