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Coming in February 2007--BERMUDA SCHWARTZ
A young scuba guide, scouting new dive sites in the shipwreck-laden reefs that rim Bermuda, makes a fatal discovery: Below these waters lies a treasure more valuable than gold or jewels. And some people are willing to kill for it.
Enter Zack Chasteen, knockabout palm-tree farmer, and his inscrutable Taino associate, Boggy, who have been dragged to Bermuda by Zack's ladylove, Barbara Pickering. She needs their help throwing a gala 70th birthday party for her wealthy and eccentric Aunt Trula. While there, Zack drops by the bank to visit his money, a couple of million dollars earned in recent exploits that Zack had stashed away in one of the country's notorious tax-free offshore accounts. Big problem: Zack's money is gone and his bankers can't seem to explain where it is or who might have it.
Zack is grappling with another issue: Where is this whole thing going with him and Barbara Pickering? She's not pressing, but it's clear she'd like to tie the knot, maybe start a family. Is Zack really ready to say, "I do?" As he wrestles with the twin dilemmas of love and money, both of which may wind up lost, Zack falls in with wise and wily Teddy Schwartz, a legendary Bermudan treasure salvager and one of Aunt Trula's longtime paramours. Schwartz is harboring a few secrets of his own, and Zack is soon crossing paths with a secret sect of religious zealots who are hoping to complete a bloody and tumultuous 2,000-year-old quest.
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Bahamarama
Finalist, 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Mystery
Novel |
Two years in a Florida federal prison on bogus charges
has made former Miami Dophins linebacker, Zack Chasteen,
stir crazy. The first step toward getting his life back
together is meeting up with his beautiful magazine mogul
girlfriend, Barbara, on Harbor Island in the Bahamas.
But making it out of Florida proves to be more trouble
than a gator with a toothache--and even deadlier. Zack
barely leaves the state alive before he discovers Barbara's
been kidnapped and her ex-lover, a photographer, murdered.
Once again trouble has come knocking on Zack's
door. But this time he's fighting back, with the help of
a Royal Bahamanian police superintendent, his trusted mystical
Taino Indian friend Boggy, and a cast of the most colorful
characters ever to step into the warm Bahama sun.
As unpredictable as island trade winds, Bahamarama
twists and turns its way to a stunning conclusion and announces
the arrival of a writer who is sure to surprise and delight
mystery fans for years to come.
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Jamaica Me Dead (October 2005)
It’s opening game of the football season at Florida
Field, and Monk DeVane, a former teammate of Zack Chasteen’s,
invites Zack and his girlfriend to a halftime party in one
of the exclusive skyboxes. But they find chaos--there’s
a bomb under the chair of Darcy Whitehall, Monk Devane’s
boss and the rakish Jamaican owner of Libido, a chain of anything-goes
Caribbean resorts. The bomb turns out to be a dud, but someone
is putting the squeeze on Darcy Whitehall, and Monk DeVane
enlists Zack to help protect his employer. When Zack arrives
in Jamaica things quickly go to hell—more bombs (this
time, for real), gnarly Jamaican politics and the kinky diversions
at Libido, where the prime spectator sport is watching guests
frolic on the naked flume ride. As if that weren’t enough,
Zack’s snooping around puts him in jeopardy with Freddie
Arzghanian, king of the Caribbean money launderers. Suspenseful,
often laugh-out-loud funny and with larger-than-life characters,
Jamaica Me Dead is Bob Morris at his wicked best.
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