Tony Doris: 5 books

Floater: A Novel, a sequel to Dirt: A Novel, is novelist Tony Doris's tale of a South Florida newspaper reporter self-banished to a waterfront squatter’s hut, who finds himself cast back into action by a murder and political intrigue that turns the city and its struggling newspaper inside out.

Floater, a sequel to Dirt, is novelist Tony Doris's tale of a South Florida newspaper reporter self-banished to a waterfront squatter’s hut, who finds himself cast back into action by a murder and political intrigue that turns the city and its struggling newspaper inside out.

During a chance night shift on the cops beat, newsroom assistant Madeleine Harrington stumbles on the corruption story of a lifetime – a plot that would reshape the entire city. She teams up with her dad, a downtrodden columnist at the paper, to unearth the mystery. The muckrakers find the plot...

By 10 p.m., well into a double shift of distributing faxes, making meal runs in the Miami heat and retyping press releases, newsroom intern Madeleine Harrington felt herself dragging. She hadn’t recovered from finals, a week and a half before. The tail end of a cold and cough nagged. Her green eyes...