Absolutelyamazingebooks: 30 books

This is a contemporary psychological thriller about dark obsessions, and the fathers who pass them to their sons. Rife with international glamour, romance and intrigue, the story captures four patriarchal families in a generational conflict where the pursuit of global power at any price makes them...

In 'Kilimanjaro Snow', Finn Pilar the ne're do well former Navy EOD specialist and disgraced Key West cop, faces his most complex case. A sailboat adrift off Wisteria Island near Key West crashes into the stern of his business partner's live-aboard boat. A deceased girl is found on board wearing nothing...

This meticulously researched book provides a fact-filled guide to shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. A former harbormaster, “Skip” Kadar became fascinated with the regional history and began researching ships that now lie on the bottom of the freshwater seas. That led to a series of factual books,...

The island of Key West serves as backdrop for some of the world’s best mystery stories. Here is the fifth collection of murder and mayhem in Paradise, a hard-hitting anthology that features ten leading writers who explore the dark side of the Southernmost city in the continental US: Jack Mazur,...

Buddy and Martha Whitacre, a blue-collar couple, celebrate early retirement with a trip to Spain. They return home to discover that they’ve been wiped out by the investment fund that made retirement and travel possible. Damn Near Broke is the tale of how they deal with impending poverty, each other,...

Sam Sawyer is a fishing guide and part-time sleuth living in the Florida Keys. He escaped a floundering academic career to realize his childhood dream of becoming a guide. But it has come at a heavy price, because his wife and colleague has chosen to remain behind in the halls of ivy. They see each...

The author poses the rhetorical question: “So how did this book come to be? How did this collection of articles and stories wind up in one place in this book?” At a local bookstore in Livingston, Montana, a group of writers were talking about compilations of people’s work and do they have any...

Most people dream of escaping TO paradise, these women are praying to escape FROM it. Detective Valerie Mason moved to the serenity of the Florida Keys to get away from big city crime. Her peaceful paradise is shattered when the body of a young woman is found on the island of Big Pine Key, and when...

Secrets, secret, secrets – about the famous Hoople Quadruplets, about Maddy Madison’s heritage, about numerous residents of Caruthers Corners, Indiana. The Quilters Club – Maddy, Lizzie, Cookie, and Bootsie – are on the case with the help of Maddy’s grandchildren, precocious Aggie and brainiac...

Archeologists were thrilled when the Badger Patrol stumbles across a previously undiscovered Indian Mound near Caruthers Corners. Just one problem: The dead body of the local sheriff was sprawled atop it. Leave it to the Quilters Club – Maddy, Lizzie, Bootsie, and Cookie, along with Maddy’s precocious...

Dysfunction, estrangement, greed, deception and revenge combine in a prelude to murder. Jack Hunter, always nearby to trouble, unwittingly becomes involved in the sinister plan. KWPD Detectives Earl Gleason and Rachel Powers have their hands full with a double-murder investigation that eventually...

Like many women, Katherine Gabrielli’s problems revolve around the men in her life: the control freak, the psychopath, the rogue and the liar. All of them have led her into serious danger in one way or another. How can she trust any of them, when she can neither understand them nor escape them?

Popular blogger Ley West Lou shares his journal that records the evacuation from Key West during the recent Hurricane Irma disaster. Along with his day-by-day diary you will find a visual record of the storm and its aftermath -- a dramatic gallery to accompany Louis Petrone’s words. History told firsthand!

Milton Stone is a doctor in Brooklyn who is dealing in drugs. His partner Finn McCoole has control of several bars and strip clubs where the drugs are sold. Nick Morosco is the bagman who has been skimming some of the profits of the drugs. On the night of the wedding of Stone's daughter Karen and...