E.C. Ayres

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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1994
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Tony Lowell

1 - Hour of the Manatee (Feb-1994)
2 - Eye of the Gator (Dec-1995)
3 - Night of the Panther (May-1997)
4 - Lair of the Lizard (Nov-1998)

Book List in Order: 8 titles

  • Hour of the Manatee

    Tony Lowell - 1

    She calls him a "hippie deadbeat." He thinks she's a "hard-nosed yuppie." But they need each other to catch a killer from the past. Tony Lowell is a shaggy 1960s dropout, ex-hotshot press photographer and occasional P.I. In a shack on Florida's slee...

  • Eye of the Gator

    Tony Lowell - 2

    Tampa Bay-area private investigator Tony Lowell is an underemployed Vietnam vet and inveterate sailor. He assists police detective Lena Bedrosian in solving the murder of a young African American employee of the state's environmental protection agenc...

  • Night of the Panther

    Tony Lowell - 3

    Sometime private eye Tony Lowell is ready to take his finally refurbished wooden schooner on its maiden voyage. Then his friend Lena Bedrosian calls. Lena's cousin, conservation officer Marge Pappas, has just been found dead, her bullet-riddled body ...

  • Lair of the Lizard

    Tony Lowell - 4

    E.C. Ayers's Hour of the Manatee won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America award, and his subsequent P.I. novels, all with an environmental undertone, have garnered nothing but high marks from readers. In the fourth outing for Ayers's...

  • Red Tide

    An abandoned research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Five dead marine scientists who were tracking a furtive tanker for offshore dumping. While Government agencies squabble over jurisdiction for the killings no one is taking responsibility for the tan...

  • A Tiger's Heart

    San Francisco based Investigative reporter Jake Fleming has a problem: Desmond Lewis, a Professor of English Literature and an old friend of his from London has vanished, en-route to a talk at the University of California in Berkeley about a new ...

  • The Shakespeare Conundrum

    The controversy over the authorship of Shakespeare is two centuries old, and the doubters were numerous: Mark Twain, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Sigmond Freud, Charlie Chaplin, even Orson ...

  • As Darkness Falls

    As Darkness Falls, Book Two, of A Jake Fleming Investigation: Investigative reporter Jake Fleming, now laid off from his struggling San Francisco newspaper despite two Pulitzers, has elected to remain in London following his investigation of the murd...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

E.C. Ayres has published 8 books.

E.C. Ayres does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, As Darkness Falls, was published in April 2022.

The first book by E.C. Ayres, Hour of the Manatee, was published in February 1994.

Yes. E.C. Ayres has 1 series.
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