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Laurence Shames
Full Series List in Order
A Key West Mystery
Florida Straits (Jun-1992)Scavenger Reef (Feb-1994)
Sunburn (Jan-1995)
Tropical Depression (Mar-1996)
Virgin Heat (Mar-1997)
Mangrove Squeeze (Mar-1998)
Welcome to Paradise (May-1999)
The Naked Detective (Jun-2000)
Book List in Order: 20 titles
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Florida Straits
- Jun-1992
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Joey Goldman's flying south for the winter. The second-string New York wiseguy just packed up his faithful girlfriend Sandra and took off for Key West- land of sun, surf, and sleaze -- where a small-time hustler in search of a racket can score the bi...
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Scavenger Reef
- Feb-1994
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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE ... What is an Augie Silver painting worth? It depends. Dead, the Key West artist is hot. Alive ... that's another story Augie's grieving widow wants her husband back. A down-and-out wharf rat could turn Augie's paintings i...
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Tropical Depression
- Mar-1996
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Murray Zemelman, a.k.a. "the bra king," wakes up one morning contemplating suicide. Instead, he leaves his trophy wife and his thriving lingerie business, gets in his car, and drives to Key West to start a new life. Was it brilliant insight or a glit...
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Virgin Heat
- Mar-1997
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There's a first time for everyone... . For years, Angie Amaro has pined for the lost love of Sal Martucci--the man who made her feel whole, the man she dreamed of, and the man who ratted out her father, cape Paulie Amaro, and had him sent to priso...
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Mangrove Squeeze
- Mar-1998
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Key West seduces people--then asks them to leave in the morning. Take Aaron Katz. He shucked his nine-tofive to restore Mangrove Arms, a rotting wreck of a guest house. Suki Sperakis sees opportunity in Florida too. In the meantime she's peddling ad ...
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Welcome to Paradise
- May-1999
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Before mild-mannered furniture salesman Al Tuschman left New Jersey for a week in Key West, he hadn't an enemy in the world. But a series of puzzling assaults on his privacy, his sanity, and his life has turned his stay at the tasteful Paradise Hotel...
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The Naked Detective
- Jun-2000
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The gumshoe bit wasn't Peter Amsterdam's idea. His accountant made him do it. But Pete should have figured that with a comfortable tax dodge in the sunny Florida Keys comes the inevitable knockout blonde looking for help. Sometimes life can be like t...
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The Big Time: The Harvard Business School's Most Successful Class & How It Shaped America
- Mar-2002
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1949 was a pivotal moment of economic dominance; the MBA was still exotic, arcane, and swaggeringly potent. The men of Harvard Business School 49 would be the class the dollars fell on. By 1974, nearly one 49er in five was a millionaire. Forty-five p...
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The Angels' Share
- May-2012
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Three love stories. Two worlds. Six characters trying bravely, if not always wisely, to make their romantic destinies come out right -- if not in this lifetime, well, maybe in the next. Set partly in Santa Barbara, CA and its nearby wine country, and...
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Shot on Location
- Aug-2013
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Take three speedboats, a disgruntled ghostwriter, and a hit TV show starring a gorgeous but impossible diva and created by a driven genius who may be losing his marbles. Add a fearless and gleefully profane stuntwoman, an ancient Mafioso with a chihu...
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Tropical Swap
- Dec-2014
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Wanted: NY apartment in exchange for a great Key West house with swimming pool. In February. Who wouldn’t take a swap like that? Then again, if a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is, as Meg and Peter Kaplan soon discover. Heading south f...
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Money Talks
- Feb-2015
- / General Fiction
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From the Foreword: Money Talks is a novel with a strange past behind it -- and an even stranger present all around it. It’s a book that some readers and reviewers have been kind enough to call prophetic. That’s a nice word, and very flattering, b...
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Key West Luck
- Dec-2015
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Sometimes small dreams are the ones most worth fighting for… Phoebe has a dream -- a very modest dream. She wants to own a Sno-Cone truck at the beach in Key West. Nicky, her would-be boyfriend, also dreams small. All he wants is a decent gig as a ...
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One Strange Date
- Jan-2017
- / Romantic Suspense
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Perfect romance. Perfect nightmare. Sometimes it’s a fine line. Meet Key West native Renita Daughtry--22, wide-eyed, gorgeous, and very much in love with love. In other words, an irresistible target for professional impostor and pathological liar R...
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One Big Joke
- Jan-2018
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“What is with you lately?” Lenny’s wife would like to know. “You’ve been acting like everything is one big joke.” And it’s true -- unemployed TV writer Lenny Sullivan has been having trouble seeing his life and times as anything more th...
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Nacho Unleashed
- Jan-2019
- / General Fiction
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Key West has a new hero...He weighs four pounds and stands eight inches off the ground. His name is Nacho and he's the bravest, shrewdest, funniest Chihuahua you will ever meet. He'll do anything to help his master, the retired Mafioso Bert the Shirt...
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The Paradise Gig
- Mar-2020
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FACT: In September 1964, the Beatles, their private flight diverted by Hurricane Dora, made an unplanned visit to Key West. FICTION: Poolside at their motel, the Fab Four fell into conversation with a snappy-dressing local named Bert the Shir...
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Key West Normal
- Oct-2021
- / General Fiction
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So what, exactly, is Key West Normal?Well, Key West Normal is when two friends in need of a place to live drag away an abandoned hot dog truck in the middle of the night...But an insomniac New Yorker has got himself trapped inside it while searching ...
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Relative Humidity
- Jan-2023
- / Police Procedural
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Ever notice that things get sticky when family comes to town?Pete Amsterdam, world's most reluctant private eye, is living the bachelor dream in Key West, Florida. Then his mother, the undaunted Gertie, shows up with her new hip, her large suitcase, ...
