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The Alligator's Farewell
Available in ebook for the first-time ever! From the award-winning novelist comes a sultry, suspenseful, lush mystery!
Tough as nails security expert Annabelle Hardy is beautiful, brilliant, and astonishingly athletic. She can nail any case, and nab any man. Nothing holds her back, not even the silent world where her deafness has trapped her, where the hisses and footsteps of evil are unknown to her. She relies on razor-sharp instincts, and confronts adversity with a stone cold will.
Yet, she has never known a killer as slippery as the nuclear assassin. This may be her toughest case ever when murder comes slithering into the steamy Everglades in Miami’s back yard. Nightmarish natural killers -- alligators, cotton mouths, canebrake rattlesnakes -- haunt the lawless nudie bar where Annabelle and her partner in sleuthing, the outrageously theatrical Dave the Monkeyman, are lured in the search for the human killer who uses a nuclear reactor for his high-tech crimes -- and a radioactive corpse turns up in the dazzling topaz pool at the reactor.
The task is all the more complicated when Annabelle meets Lon Berlin, the gorgeous and witty scientist who may have found his way through Annabelle's quiet isolation. Annabelle is torn: should she pull a gun on the handsome guy or slide into his inviting muscular arms as they face each other in the midnight blue water of her black marble swimming pool on a hot, hot night in Miami?
Everyone's a suspect in this hot and dangerous world...Can Annabelle navigate the dangers or will this be her last case?
Tough as nails security expert Annabelle Hardy is beautiful, brilliant, and astonishingly athletic. She can nail any case, and nab any man. Nothing holds her back, not even the silent world where her deafness has trapped her, where the hisses and footsteps of evil are unknown to her. She relies on razor-sharp instincts, and confronts adversity with a stone cold will.
Yet, she has never known a killer as slippery as the nuclear assassin. This may be her toughest case ever when murder comes slithering into the steamy Everglades in Miami’s back yard. Nightmarish natural killers -- alligators, cotton mouths, canebrake rattlesnakes -- haunt the lawless nudie bar where Annabelle and her partner in sleuthing, the outrageously theatrical Dave the Monkeyman, are lured in the search for the human killer who uses a nuclear reactor for his high-tech crimes -- and a radioactive corpse turns up in the dazzling topaz pool at the reactor.
The task is all the more complicated when Annabelle meets Lon Berlin, the gorgeous and witty scientist who may have found his way through Annabelle's quiet isolation. Annabelle is torn: should she pull a gun on the handsome guy or slide into his inviting muscular arms as they face each other in the midnight blue water of her black marble swimming pool on a hot, hot night in Miami?
Everyone's a suspect in this hot and dangerous world...Can Annabelle navigate the dangers or will this be her last case?
368 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 1998
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
May 1, 2023
I really enjoyed this book and was sorry to see there is only 1 more with the duo of Annabelle and Dave in it. They are great characters and this mystery was different than most.
September 16, 2023
RATING: 3.5
December 17, 2015
Awesomely riveting
A deaf heroine and an eccentric hero! Who could ask for more? I was between tears and gasps of pure hilariousness at some of the antics of these two. Very good book and well worth reading
A deaf heroine and an eccentric hero! Who could ask for more? I was between tears and gasps of pure hilariousness at some of the antics of these two. Very good book and well worth reading
February 14, 2016
For the Florida comedy thriller shelf, along with Carl Hiassen and Tim Dorsey...
March 3, 2016
Is a great book to read
unfinished
May 10, 2016Stopped at 29%. May retry later, but I really wasn't into this.
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