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Author :Mitch Grant Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781539482062 Total Pages :278 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (82 download)
Book Synopsis The Florida Rig Murder by : Mitch Grant
Download or read book The Florida Rig Murder written by Mitch Grant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. James City is a sleepy fishing village on the southern tip of Pine Island, Florida. It has one grocery store, one tackle shop, one church, a multitude of bars-and quite a few corpses. Fortunately, amateur sleuths Jim and Jill Story are always ready for another thrilling adventure. When some friends head out for a fun day of fishing for grouper, they catch more than they bargained for. They pull in a corpse from the depths which they recognize as R. V. Dodge, one of St. James City's most notable and unpleasant characters. The investigation uncovers no shortage of suspects, as lots of people apparently wanted Dodge dead. But the way the body was mutilated suggests the killer had a particularly deep-seated dislike for the wealthy farmer. Was that hatred due to Dodge's recent romantic entanglement that had enraged his wife-as well his lover's husband. But there's also trouble with a local environmental activist, and something seems fishy about how farm lands are being sold to the state. Was Dodge's death attributable to business or pleasure? In the expert hands of author Mitch Grant, St. James City and Pine Island come to life. You will be transported to a tropical paradise where the locals take it easy, where there's usually a cooling island breeze, and where danger and death lurk behind nearby mangroves.
Book Synopsis Circumstantial-Evidence Getting Away with Murder in the Florida Keys The Murder of Ed Bozarth by : J. Harold Lowry
Download or read book Circumstantial-Evidence Getting Away with Murder in the Florida Keys The Murder of Ed Bozarth written by J. Harold Lowry and published by J. Harold Lowry. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Series "From the Life and Times of J. Harold Lowry" will take you through many different times in my life. Circumstantial Evidence, Getting Away with Murder in the Florida Keys, is about the murder of my friend Ed Bozarth.My life and Ed's crossed paths throughout the State of Florida, from the areas North of Tampa down through the Florida Keys.I wait over 3 years for someone to be arrested for his murder but an arrest never came. Many times in my past I have aided in bringing criminals to justice when Law Enforcement seemed unable to.Watching the investgation of my friends murder drag on with no results, I felt it was time to bring attention to this brutal crime. The Murder of Ed Bozarth, my friend.
Download or read book Death Cruise written by Don Davis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For pretty Ohioan Joan Rogers and her two teenaged daughters, a Florida sunset cruise was a dream come true. And even though all three were desperately afaid of the water, they were so taken with friendly boat owner Oba Chandler that they gladly accepted a ride with him on beautiful Tampa Bay. Little did naive mom and two daughters know that behind Chandler's mask of a gracious host lurked a daring and ruthless ex-con, a thief and a liar, a seductive Don Juan who used and discarded wives and children. As they sun serenely sank below the Gulf of Mexico, Chandler suddenly shut down the engines, dropped anchor...and turned into a sadistic torturer. Hog-tying and brutally raping all three, Chandler tossed them overboard -- alive -- with 40-pound cement blocks tied to their necks. With cruel laughter, he spoke his last words to them: "Swim for it." But the dark green waters of Tampa Bay refused to hold his monstrous secret, and after only three days, the bodies of his victims surfaced. If it hadn't been for a dedicated team of detectives and the clues provided by Chandler's neighbors, a depraved killer might have gotten away with his ghastly crime. Instead, he now paces the floors of a Florida prision awaiting his rendezvous with the electric chair.
Book Synopsis Murder in the Tropics by : Stuart B. McIver
Download or read book Murder in the Tropics written by Stuart B. McIver and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True tales ranging from Pensacola to Key West, from the 19th century to the present. Near Tampa, a sideshow freak called the Human Blockhead was hired to kill the Lobster Boy. Pensacola's Judy Buenoano was called the Black Widow after the murder of her husband, a lover, and even her own son.
Book Synopsis The Flat Tire Murders by : Michael P. Burns
Download or read book The Flat Tire Murders written by Michael P. Burns and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Florida in the 1970s was one of the nation's most dangerous locations. Behind the image of sun and surf, young women were the victims of a brutal killer. In the mid-1970s, over a dozen young women were murdered and found in canals. These cases became known as the Flat Tire Murders and the Canal Murders. Only one case was ever solved. More than four decades have passed since these crimes, and no arrests were ever made. This is the first book to explore these murders in depth, as well as a bizarre series of murders occurring in the years earlier, known as the Gold Sock Stranglings. Interviews with the detectives that originally worked to solve these cases provide an intimate view of the attempt to capture the killer that terrorized South Florida. In addition to the cases themselves, the book explores several suspects, including the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. Detailed maps of South Florida illustrate the complex canal system that became the victims' graveyard.
Book Synopsis MURDER Over to Mary's Fish Camp by : W. Edward Wendover
Download or read book MURDER Over to Mary's Fish Camp written by W. Edward Wendover and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peace is shattered at an "Old" Florida fishing village when a fishermen snags a mutilated body. A newly elected Sheriff is on the trail of the C.O.D. (cause of death) to nab the murderer. With 21 recipes and food notes.
Book Synopsis The Cut Bait Murders by : Mitch Grant
Download or read book The Cut Bait Murders written by Mitch Grant and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cut Bait Murders is the second in the fishing-themed Jim Story series of St. James City mysteries. A retired couple's life in the quaint Florida fishing village is disturbed by a series of unexplained disappearances. Then the island's tranquility is shattered when two tarpon fishermen reel in a mutilated corpse- an obvious victim of murder. The police suspect the crime is linked to a recently uncovered drug ring, but the island's residents are not convinced. When another beloved island resident disappears a colorful cast of tropical characters decide to take matters into their own hands, leading to an exciting conclusion involving bull sharks, alligators, manatees, and, of course, a gorilla!
Book Synopsis Guilty Creatures by : Mikita Brottman
Download or read book Guilty Creatures written by Mikita Brottman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times “A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction” (The New York Times Book Review), a breathless true crime tale of sex, religion, and murder in the deep South. Mike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with childhood friends, Brian and Kathy Winchester. The two couples were devout, hardworking Baptists who lived perfect, quintessentially Southern lives. Their friendship seemed ironclad. That is, until December 16, 2000, when Denise’s husband Mike disappeared while duck hunting on Lake Seminole. After no body was found, everyone assumed that Mike had drowned in a tragic accident, his body eaten by alligators. But things took an unexpected turn when, within five years of Mike’s disappearance, Brian Winchester divorced his wife and married Denise. Their surprising romance set tongues talking. People began wondering how long they had been a couple, and whether they had anything to do with Mike’s death. It took another twelve years for the truth to come out—and when it did, it was unimaginable. Now, the full, shocking story is revealed by Mikita Brottman, acclaimed true crime writer of the “enthralling” (San Francisco Book Review) An Unexplained Death. Through tenacious research and clear-eyed prose, she probes the psychology of a couple who killed and explores how it feels to live for eighteen years with murder on the soul. A fascinating page-turner of modern noir, Guilty Creatures is destined to become an instant true crime classic.
Download or read book Bound to Die written by Anna Flowers and published by Chapin House Books. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REVISED EDITION. Bound to Die is the true crime story of Florida serial killer Bobby Joe Long. In 1984 Long was convicted of the heinous murders of nine women in Florida's Tampa Bay area. The first body of 19 year old disco dancer Lana Long was found in a field on Mother's Day. Six months later, the bloody rampage ended when the ninth victim was discovered. All had been tortured with rapes and savagely beaten and raped. The killer's confession of his crimes is haunting. The vividly rendered results of his historical trials and appeals are equally shocking.
Book Synopsis A Sporting Murder by : Lesley A. Diehl
Download or read book A Sporting Murder written by Lesley A. Diehl and published by Epicenter Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's smooth sailing for Eve Appel and her friend Madeleine, owners of Second to None Consignment Shop in rural Florida's Sabal Bay, land of swamps, cowboys, and lots and lots of 'gators. Eve and her detective boyfriend Alex have joined Madeleine and her new beau David Wilson for a pleasure cruise on his boat. But cloudy, dangerous waters lie ahead. A near fatal encounter with Blake Reed, David's supremely nasty neighbor, is soon followed by a shooting death on the dividing line between David and Blake's land. Both men run sport-hunting reserves, but Blake imports "exotics" from Africa and promotes gator killing, while David stays within the law, pointing clients toward the abundant quail and turkey as well as the wild pigs that ravage the landscape. Nevertheless, when a mutual client is killed, it is David who is arrested and charged with murder. Blake's nastiness is only exceeded by that of his wife, Elvira, who forces Eve and Madeleine out of their shop, intending to replace it with a consignment shop of her own. It seems that bad luck looms over them all, even Eve's brawny and hard-to-resist Miccosukee Indian friend Sammy, whose nephew has disappeared. As the case against David grows stronger and his friends' misfortunes multiply, Eve and her strange and diverse group of friends, including her ex, a mobster, her grandma, and Sammy's extended family, band together to take on the bad guys. But the waters are getting muddier and more troubled, and Eve and Madeleine may end up inundated in every sense of the word. Book 3 in the Eve Appel Mystery series, which began with A Secondhand Murder and continued with Dead in the Water.
Download or read book Murder on the Prairie written by Abrams and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the dean of Alachua County's environmental groups dies suddenly, the Sierra Club office is ransacked, and her activist ex-husband is shot. Actress Lorelei Crane embarks on a dangerous trail of old passions, threats, scandal, and murder.
Book Synopsis Murder at Seminole Pond by : Jay Heavner
Download or read book Murder at Seminole Pond written by Jay Heavner and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Pyles, forensic expert and part-time crime investigator, is frustrated at finding the wrong bodies just as he's finally getting his long-awaited archaeological dig started. But unexpected corpses will be the least of the problems he'll soon face, professional and personal. "These are the times that will try men's souls," Thomas Paine said. Will Roger succeed against his newest challenges?Great trials can have the seeds of good hidden deep in them. Little can he realize how these untimely troubles will lead to his next great adventure.
Book Synopsis Murders in the Swampland by : Patricia Ann Lieb
Download or read book Murders in the Swampland written by Patricia Ann Lieb and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murders In The Swampland" Here is a review from the Citrus County Chronicle (Florida) written by Chris Van Ormer "Murders in the Swampland" Article from the Citrus County Chronicle Book´s murder stories send chills up spine of the Nature Coast Many people move to the Nature Coast knowing little about the region. Certainly, they´ve been enticed by the climate and the natural beauty of the countryside, the Gulf of Mexico and the lower cost of living. Yes, the Nature Coast is an attractive place. What almost no newcomer to the region does is check the crime files. Perhaps the newcomer will look up the statistics and see fewer hard crimes here than in the place they are leaving and be reassured. However, a higher crime rate reflects a larger population than that of the Nature Coast. And statistics never put a face to crime. Putting a face on big crimes in the Nature Coast is what Patty Shipp (Lieb) has done in her book, "Murders in the Swampland." She chronicles 17 murder cases from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Some of these cases Shipp covered while she was the crime reporter for the Sun_Journal in Brooksville, from 1987 until the newspaper shut down in 1991. Shipp mentions her editor, Ken Melton, who now works for a sister newspaper of the Citrus County Chronicle, and credits Melton with encouraging her to publish her book. Each story could be fiction, if the facts and characters were not so real. The scenes of murders, the roads traveled by the murderers and the lawmen who caught them exist. Many of the lawmen are still at work and are well known the the communities. Most of the crimes are set in Heranado County, but adjacent counties figure in as well. Each story has a horrible uniqueness, but all the murders are amateurs, even the serial killers detailed in the book. Many mistakes are made that lead the lawmen to the killers. It is refreshing to see the entire crime put into one document, rather than revealed in the installments of newspaper reports. These stories read like accounts in detective magazines, for which many of them were written. Thuse the reader learns about the serial killer, Billy Mansfield, who in the late 1970s and early 1980s picked up young women hitchhikers on U.S. 19, took them back to his mother´s trailer in Weeki Wachee for some hours of rape and torture before murdering them and burying them in the back yard. I have lived near Weeki Wachee for more than seven years, I had never heard about the Mansfield murders. What is unusual about those murders and several others in the book is that so many people at the time knew about them and said nothing. Indeed, the sheriff said he would have to build a wing on the jail to detain all the people who had withheld evidence about Mansfield´s crimes. But those folks knew about the murders after the fact. A more surprising crime happened Aug 3, 1990, in Floral City, when many people were aware of the plot to murder Joanne Sanders. The gang at a car repair business in melrose would get together and talk about how it should be done, priming the murder-to-be, John Barrett. This case was perhaps the most bungled of the 17 in the book, because Sanders never got murdered at all. But four m,en who entered her house before she did were killed, while Barrett was waiting for her. Barrett was gone when Sanders came home and found the bodies. One thing this story does not tell the reader is why Barrett left before Sanders came home. Perhaps he lost his nerve, or perhaps he thought of something else to do. A striking similarity in may of these cases is the randomness of the violence. Many of the victims were not safe in the security of their own homes, where the killer broke in through the screen door in the back or just knocked on the front door and asked to use the phone or bathr
Book Synopsis Murder on Hogtown Creek by : M. D. Abrams
Download or read book Murder on Hogtown Creek written by M. D. Abrams and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a conspiracy to kill Gainesville environmentalists? When actress Lorelei Crane returns to Gainesville to star in Sweeny Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street, friends ask her to find out about the murder of their fellow Earth Save member.
Book Synopsis Who Mourns the Egyptian? by : Allan Avery
Download or read book Who Mourns the Egyptian? written by Allan Avery and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold yet flawed pilot, a cold killer, and a beautiful woman are drawn together in greed and murder. They use their knowledge of the Air Traffic Control System and the pine woods and swamps of the Florida Panhandle for a smuggling operation. No battle plan survives the first shot. The first shot is the murder of a Florida Wildlife Officer working alone while surveying wood duck nesting sites in the swamps thirty miles from Tallahassee. Violent death is a harbinger of sharp and deep mourning. A sense and a feel for place and time can give unbidden direction to the victim's friends in their search for a reason where there is none. The novel is set in the beautiful Florida Panhandle. There are large and small urban areas and vast stretches of farm land, pine forest, wet lands, and coast. The littoral zone southern boundary is the Gulf of Mexico. Over a million Panhandle acres are owned by paper and timber companies or the State of Florida. Much of the privately held land is managed in cooperation with the Florida Forest Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Download or read book Twisted Murder written by Jan Kalnbach and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People murder people for a variety of reasons. Mostly the criminals are caught and sent to prison or executed. People still murder. It never ends. This book is a taste of murder in Hernando County, Florida from 1842 until 2018. The county includes a rugged gulf coastline, dense forests, farm land, and modern housing developments. Murder invades it all.
Book Synopsis The Silver Spoon Murder by : Mitch Grant
Download or read book The Silver Spoon Murder written by Mitch Grant and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim and Jill Story are retirees living a simple life in the fishing village of St. James City, Florida. But when an acquaintance of theirs is accused of murdering the area's leading environmental activist, their quiet world is sent into disarray. Their tight-knit group of friends rallies to the man's defense, but the authorities are convinced they have the right suspect. The physical evidence and a previous threat of a powerful Indian curse on the victim are enough for the local sheriff to charge their friend with murder. But while Jim proposes an alternative theory involving an entity known as Big Sugar, a host of other suspects come to light. Was it a jealous husband, a resentful developer, a vengeful politician, or something far more sinister? For fans of John D. MacDonald and Randy Wayne White, The Silver Spoon Murder:A Saint James City, Florida, Mystery is a taut island tale filled with suspense and intrigue that also takes an honest look at the serious environmental and developmental issues facing many communities in Southwest Florida today.
