Eve Appel
Camel Press
July 2015
On Sale: July 15, 2015
Featuring: Eve Appel
250 pages ISBN: 1603819398 EAN: 2940151168953 Kindle: B010TKW74C Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Itβs smooth sailing for Eve Appel and her friend Madeleine, owners of Second to None Consignment Shop in rural Floridaβs Sabal Bay, land of swamps, cowboys, and lots and lots of βgators. Eve and her detective boyfriend Alex have joined Madeleine and her new beau David Wilson for a pleasure cruise on his boat. But cloudy, dangerous waters lie ahead. A near fatal encounter with Blake Reed, Davidβs supremely nasty neighbor, is soon followed by a shooting death on the dividing line between David and Blakeβs land. Both men run sport-hunting reserves, but Blake imports βexoticsβ from Africa and promotes gator killing, while David stays within the law, pointing clients toward the abundant quail and turkey as well as the wild pigs that ravage the landscape.
Nevertheless, when a mutual client is killed, it is David who is arrested and charged with murder. Blakeβs nastiness is only exceeded by that of his wife, Elvira, who forces Eve and Madeleine out of their shop, intending to replace it with a consignment shop of her own. It seems that bad luck looms over them all, even Eveβs brawny and hard-to-resist Miccosukee Indian friend Sammy, whose nephew has disappeared. As the case against David grows stronger and his friendsβ misfortunes multiply, Eve and her strange and diverse group of friends, including her ex, a mobster, her grandma, and Sammyβs extended family, band together to take on the bad guys. But the waters are getting muddier and more troubled, and Eve and Madeleine may end up inundated in every sense of the word.
Book 3 in the Eve Appel Mystery series, which began with A Secondhand Murder and continued with Dead in the Water.
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