Farewell Conch Republic — Hialeah Jackson

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS...

Hemingway wrote his manly prose there. Foreigners lose their shirts there. And now people are starting to die in Key West. For the divine Miss A--the beautiful hearing-impaired owner of Miami's largest corporate security outfit--the trip from Miami with her assistant, Dave the Monkeyman, was pure business.

A security guard at her agency has been accused of murdering the curator of the Hemingway Museum. But Annabelle and Dave quickly find many people with better motives, and more opportunities, than their employee. Suddenly the investigation into a murder in Papa's study leads to a search for a Madonna lost at sea, and into a strange tangle of sea salvagers, land developers, and even the U.S. Navy. For Annabelle, the amorous attention of one tall, handsome Popeye cannot distract her from what she can see but can't hear: she and Dave have shaken the coral foundation of the Conch Republic--and brought a killer out of his lair...