Purchase
Detective Barrett Raines
Minotaur Books
July 2007
On Sale: July 10, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0312361394
EAN: 9780312361396
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Mystery Police Procedural
There is a Florida that has nothing to do with Disney World. Nothing to do with palm trees or Holiday Inns. Tourists are neither courted nor coddled in this Florida, and you can go a hundred miles and never find a golden arch.
So says author Darryl Wimberley, and itβs a Florida he knows. He knows, too, that in towns like Pepperfish Keys, there are those who still canβt believe that a black man could rise to a high position in the state police. But Barrett Raines has done it; his father may have been a moneyless fisherman enriching his white employer, but things have changed---a bit. Sharon Fowler, a local television reporter, isnβt concerned with Barrettβs race---she wouldnβt have cared if he were pink and green. She just wants to use him to get him (and, she hopes, the stateβs senator as well) into some kind of blazing trouble that will let her write a prize-wining story. Senator Baxter Stanton, of course, knows how important it is that the townβs voters consider him βtheir manβ in the upcoming election. There are activities he would like to stay hidden, and his young daughter, whom he canβt harness, is having a fling with a man whom Barrett suspects is dealing with the senator in some kind of illegal business. But things happen that neither Barrett nor Sharon expected, throwing them into an unlikely alliance. The dead body of the senatorβs daughter is discovered behind a water heater in the senatorβs mansion. Can Raines pull the threads together---and find out what they mean? Set along the northwestern coast of Florida's Big Bend, Pepperfish Keys is an amazing addition to this riveting Florida Gulf noir series.
| 
© 2003-2026