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61) Southern comfort
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Now sober, Atlanta homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly, still haunted by the murder of his wife and children, gets an unexpected second chance at happiness when he works with former DEA agent Kate Rush to expose a local human trafficking ring.
62) Silver alert
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The story of an elderly man who, rather than give up his independence, heads off on a joyride with a new young friend"--
63) Coconut cowboy
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 19
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a plan to finish the motorcycle journey of his Easy Rider heroes in the Florida panhandle, Serge Storms and his sidekick Coleman encounter corrupt politicians, homicides, and mind-altering drugs.
64) Standup guy
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Series
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English
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Stone Barrington's newest client does not seem the type to bring mayhem in his wake. A polite, well-deported gentleman, he comes to Stone seeking legal expertise on an unusual--and potentially lucrative--dilemma. Stone points him in the right direction and sends him on his way, but it's soon clear Stone hasn't seen the end of the case. Several people are keenly interested in this gentleman's activities and how they may relate to a long-ago crime ....
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English
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin...
68) Tropic of stupid
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 24
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a Sunshine State road trip to meet long-lost family members, Serge Storms discovers that he may be related to a notorious serial killer before encountering a park ranger with her own mysterious agenda.
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 23
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tim Dorsey returns with an insanely entertaining tale in which the inimitable Serge A. Storms sees dead people and investigates a creepy urban myth that may be all too real.
71) The secret river
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
Author
Series
Season in Pinecraft volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A wallflower in her Amish community, Mary Margaret hopes a trip will offer her a chance to come out of her shell. When a chance meeting brings new friends and a gentle young man into her life, she imagines a whole new life in Florida. But will it all disappear once vacation ends?"--
Author
Series
Serge Storms novels volume 17
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
No one loves Florida more, or can keep it safe from invasive criminal species better than self-appointed Sunshine Sheriff Serge Storms. When a particular scam leads to the death of a few innocents and a young woman's disappearance, Serge and his perpetually self-bent sidekick Coleman--aided by his new pal, latter-day noir private eye Mahoney -- load up the car for a riotous road trip to do right.
75) Tampa burn
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Balserio, a thuggish one-time dictator, out of power in his own country, kidnaps the young son of his wife, Pilar, the result of a love affair with Doc Ford, Ford must rescue the boy from Balserio's new Florida home base.
76) The marsh queen
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Loni Mae Murrow's life in Washington, DC is tidy, if a trifle constrained. Single and in her mid-thirties, she's a bird artist at the Smithsonian who spends her days at a desk, making elaborate drawings of belted kingfishers and scrub-jays and purple gallinules. Then she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult, has grown frail and been resentfully consigned to assisted...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"On the surface, Annie Powers's life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband Gray, loves her fiercely; together they dote on their beautiful young daughter, Victory. But the bubble surrounding Annie is pierced when she senses that the demons from an ugly past are gaining on her quickly, triggering frightening -- and unwanted -- memories of someone she used to be. A lifetime ago Annie was Ophelia March, a young girl who fled...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. A young woman's life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics....
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Series
Destination wedding novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Paramedic Vanessa Hollister has overcome what her mother called "the biggest mistake of her life" and is planning an elegant destination wedding in Destin, Florida with her new fiancé. But will the reappearance of her first husband from her what-were-you-thinking teenage elopement disrupt her dream of an idyllic beach wedding? As a professional storm chaser, Logan Hollister is used to taking risks. Coming face to face with his ex-wife eight years...
80) No one like you
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
"No one expects a curveball. For Rylan Cates, the gloriously sunny beachside town of Barefoot William may be home, but the pro baseball player needs to focus on spring training. Hiring a personal assistant to keep him and his four dogs organized for the next eight weeks is the first step--and Beth Avery is the perfect pinch hitter. Beth is still looking for her place in the world, and a couple months caring for Rylan's two dachshunds, his golden retriever,...
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