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Detective Barrett Raines
Minotaur Books
July 2007
On Sale: July 10, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0312361394
EAN: 9780312361396
Hardcover
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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 it’s a Florida he knows. He knows,
too, that in towns like Pepperfish Keys, there are those
who still can’t 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, isn’t concerned with Barrett’s race---she
wouldn’t have cared if he were pink and green. She just
wants to use him to get him (and, she hopes, the state’s
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 town’s voters consider
him “their man” in the upcoming election. There are
activities he would like to stay hidden, and his young
daughter, whom he can’t 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
senator’s daughter is discovered behind a water heater in
the senator’s 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.
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