For fans of John D. MacDonald and his coastal Florida mysteries,The Last Breathby Danny Lopez will rekindle the flame.
Unemployed newspaper reporter Dexter Vega is hired to investigate the drowning of Liam Fleming, the son of a wealthy real estate investor in Siesta Key.
Vegas search for clues takes him from one end of this picturesque barrier island off the coast of Sarasota to the other. But nothing adds up. Liam was young, an experienced swimmer, apparently healthyand drowned in four feet of water. And why was Liam living in a beach shack? Why was he buying properties and not selling them?
The police are getting nowhere as they identify every beach bum on Siesta Key as a suspect. But Vega narrows his investigation to twoone who disappears, and the other hes falling in love with. Beach bums and hippies go missing, while greed, beachfront property, and drugs swirl in vicious loopsand when they converge, Vega puts his life on the line to find the truth.
“Readers [of The Last Breath] will be completely taken up by the dark view of Siesta ‘behind the veil of sun,’ where ‘creatures that frolicked in the sand found themselves in dark holes of their own making.’” — Booklist
“Fans of a low-key, amateur sleuth mystery may want to give The Last Breath a try." — New York Journal of Books
Danny Lopezis a pen name. The author was raised in Mexico, Texas, and Florida. He worked numerous menial jobs before becoming a photojournalist, which allowed him to travel around the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean and meet many of the characters that populate his stories. When he finally decided to get serious about writing, he went back to college for an MFA in creative writing.The Last Breathis the second in the Dexter Vega series.
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