Someone is killing people with a crossbow, but what connects the murders is a mystery, and only a birder and the aide to a dead Senator can find the answers.
Longboat Key, on
the Gulf Coast of Florida is one of the barrier islands that protects Sarasota
from the bad moods of the Gulf of Mexico. This is what it’s like to live on the Gulf Coast of Florida:
by day the sky is the deep blue of Paul Newman’s eyes; at close of day it’s
flooded with a full palette of reds, oranges, pinks and purples. Put it this
way: I have a lot of pictures of my children—I have even more pictures of
sunsets in Sarasota!
In the Crosshairs: the Body on Leffis Key, takes place on a small key
adjacent to Longboat. A strip of low dune and mangrove swamp, it’s home to the
Marine Rescue Facility and a nature walk. Our heroine Palmer is on that walk
looking for birds when she finds something a lot less desirable—which, to her
surprise, eventually leads to something a lot more desirable.
End of boardwalk where Palmer finds corpse
Blurb
Palmer Lind, recovering from the sudden death of her
husband, embarks on a bird-watching trek to the Gulf Coast of Florida. One hot
day on Leffis Key she comes upon—not the life bird she was hoping for—but a
floating corpse. The handsome beach bum who appears on the scene at the same
time seems to have even more secrets than the dead man.
His story begins to unravel as the pair search for answers
to a growing pile of dead bodies. Spies, radical environmentalists, and wealthy
businessmen circle around each other in a complex dance. Which one is lying?
What do a seemingly random group of individuals have in common, other than
being targeted by a crossbow?
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