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Key West Attorney R. Sloan, still reeling from seeing his office firebombed with two Molotov cocktails, answers his cell phone and hears a soft female voice say, "Mr. Sloan, I think I need a lawyer. It's a matter of life and death." Sloan starts to feel for the first time very human and very vulnerable as he tries to figure out who wants him dead. Someone is very intent on killing him any way they can and just won't stop. What he doesn't need is a client with the same problem.

At night, Government Road in Key West is dark and lonely as it runs through the swamp of salt marshes and mangrove trees along the edge of the airport. The crushed coral rock adds to the road a sense of foreboding. Into this setting come a young man and woman in a heated discussion,

The last time Eddie was in Key West, she was sent to retrieve some politically sensitive photos. She left five bodies, four of them dead, in the little city. Now, her handler has put her on ice until she can prove she is not out of control. With no clues and the elections over, the politicians want to declare August’s shooting at Detective Sharkey’s engagement party a cold case and file it away. However, the KWPD Chief is having no part of filing away a case that left a uniformed officer dead.

Jerry Jamison, the sexy, motorcycle riding private investigator, and cousin of Key West resident Rex Jamison, is in town to do some mundane PI work for an old friend who has been sidelined by an auto accident, when he finds that routine and mundane have a whole new meaning.

The girl floating in the water at the end of Duval Street had a life full of secrets, one of which caused someone to kill her. Dead women can't talk. But to vacationing professor of forensic psychology Rex Jamison, it's just a matter of figuring out how the dead are going to tell you what they want you to know. Newly promoted to detective, David Sharkey entices Rex to team up with him to solve his first murder case. Secrets, lies, jealously, and greed will soon take center stage, and everyone becomes a suspect.

When Officer Cruz Rosario’s free-wheeling half-brother shows up in Key West unable, or unwilling, to keep a low profile, it alerts old enemies with a big grudge that the illusive Cruz now resides in Key West. Cruz and Jenny Springfield are running point chasing dangerous creatures loose in Key West stalking its dark alleys. Deadly muggers, the kind that kill you before they take your stuff are loose in the city. New reporter Robin Vanderbilt’s investigations of a suspicious murder put a target on her with a crime boss looking for his stolen funds.

In this sequel to Nine Hours to Kill (Book 13), Attorney R. Sloan is fighting to keep his client sane and sober as the police investigate the murder of her brother artist Steve Spaulding. The police believe she did it. She is the sole beneficiary of his multimillion-dollar estate. It gets worse. The police find that she has an ex-felon fiancé who they suspect may be her accomplice.

Resistance to the disciples arises as the public starts to understand the long-term changes the disciples will bring to society and see dead bodies. The disciples have been warned that when the world recognizes their actual power, it will shake awake an existing structure of those who desire power and command the armies of the spiritually dead. Nora is a police woman who fears the loss of American choice in an era of ideologues as she faces the disciples of the Master. The great spiritual war is about to change from discussion of theory and theology to deadly force.

A young woman is found laid out on top of a coral sarcophagus in the Key West Cemetery, her nude body wrapped carefully in a white silk sheet tied at the waist with a wide red ribbon and a diamond ring in her mouth. Key West detectives David Sharkey and Doug Webber are baffled by the bazaar staging of the body. As they start their investigation, Titus Steel, a young private investigator from Miami, offers to help with valuable information that this has happened twice before.

The stable, grounded, Medical Examiner, Isabella Lancaster, has a secret history that suddenly erupts as unexpected and erratic changes. Jerry and Chichi challenge their assumptions about what they really know about her. They quickly find that her history is complicated and that everyone has been deceived about her past. A rough fugitive recovery agent shows up in town looking for a man who skipped out on his bail bond and headed for Key West. Detective Sharkey soon discovers that what is more dangerous than an unstable person are the shadows that he drags along behind him.

Key West Detectives Sharkey and Webber find themselves walking a fine line between political protocol and their job of solving the murder of Assistant DA Jim Turner. Sharkey and Webber need to find out whom among Jims "friends and lovers" decided to kill him. As the investigation goes on, the possible suspects seem to multiply. The medical examiner describes the murder as an "extraordinary case". As the case unfolds, they find that the ME’s statement might be an understatement. To complicate matters, Detective Doug Webber is trying to get over the death of his love, Isabella.

Reporter Mckenzie Jones gets involved with a handsome, mysterious, and romantic man with a dangerous secret that could lead to her demise. Detective Sharkey is looking for a hit man who could turn state’s evidence with witness protection if they can keep him alive till dawn and find him before he leaves town. Chichi Ramirez returns from her business trip to look for Jerry Jamison who appears to have gotten involved with a blonde who is wearing Chichi’s new clothes.

Detective David Sharkey of the Key West Police Department has a day that starts with hearing about the daring escape of convict Diano Castellanos, who has sworn to avenge his arrest. The next news he gets is that Professor Rex Jamison’s adopted son, Ricky, is missing and presumed kidnapped. As the morning progresses, another body is found near the boy’s school. Sharkey suspects that there is a connection between Castellanos' escape and the taking of Ricky.

A stabbing in a local Key West bar turns up the tropical heat for Detective David Sharkey of the KWPD. Add hijacked pharmaceutical trucks in Miami, the dead body of a young woman, a young reporter named Lexie Resnikova (Tristan), and the appearance of a suspicious Cuban Miami club owner unexpectedly in town. These are just some of the ingredients that make up a tropical concoction of murder, lies, and betrayal in paradise that will lead Sharkey and his friends into what looks like a deadly ending.

Young Enrique Jamison wakes up on the yacht STARLIGHT DREAMER with no memory of the last fifteen hours. When the police find a young naked dead girl floating under the dock next to the boat he becomes the sole suspect for the murder. Attorney Sloan and investigator Jerry Jamison are trying to put together the lost fifteen hours that put him and the young woman together on the yacht.