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Throwaways
Jake Savage is photographing lionfish in the Gulf off of Key West. He frames a specimen in his camera and takes a few shots. Then the light is dimmed by a shadow. Looking up, he sees a young girl floating on the surface, her hair fanning out in the water. In a few minutes, she would be completely out of his sight, a tiny speck in the vast ocean. He doesn't want to go to her, to help the tortured remains of a once living human being. He has seen ravaged bodies up close and dreads the idea of seeing hers. But he can't leave her to the whim of the wind and tide. She deserves better.
Jake isn't an amateur sleuth. He isn't a reluctant sleuth. He isn't a sleuth at all. He isn't trying to solve a crime but to give the victim the respect of caring, something the police seem incapable of. He is driven by the lie that if he can give the dead girl a name, and arrange for her to be buried with dignity, he will quiet his own demons.
He asks questions, too many questions, and slowly and inexorably enters a world that he is ill-equipped to A world run by the wealthy, powerful and privileged. A world in which children who have been cast aside by their families and society—throwaways—are preyed upon by sex traffickers and men with deviant appetites. A world in which murder is a means to an end.
It is up to the well-intended Jake Savage to survive long enough to find his way back to the world he knows—or what's left of it.
Set in Key West and with a cast of memorable characters, Throwaways is a mystery thriller with an edge that will entertain and enlighten.
Jake isn't an amateur sleuth. He isn't a reluctant sleuth. He isn't a sleuth at all. He isn't trying to solve a crime but to give the victim the respect of caring, something the police seem incapable of. He is driven by the lie that if he can give the dead girl a name, and arrange for her to be buried with dignity, he will quiet his own demons.
He asks questions, too many questions, and slowly and inexorably enters a world that he is ill-equipped to A world run by the wealthy, powerful and privileged. A world in which children who have been cast aside by their families and society—throwaways—are preyed upon by sex traffickers and men with deviant appetites. A world in which murder is a means to an end.
It is up to the well-intended Jake Savage to survive long enough to find his way back to the world he knows—or what's left of it.
Set in Key West and with a cast of memorable characters, Throwaways is a mystery thriller with an edge that will entertain and enlighten.
252 pages, Paperback
Published October 13, 2020
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October 7, 2022
I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. A good who-done-it mystery. Perfect for Halloween Month 🎃.
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