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21) Chomp
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
22) Miami midnight
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Polis Books
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English
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"A year has passed since Pete Fernandez's latest, closest brush with death. After months of recovery, the newly sober Pete has managed to rebuild his life, contentedly running a small Miami bookstore and steering clear of the dangers of private eye work. So when an aging Cuban mobster asks Pete to find out who killed his drug-addicted, jazz pianist son and to locate his missing daughter-in-law, Pete balks. Until another victim suggests that the murder...
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Military policewoman Holly Barker lost a harassment case against her superior and quit the army. On arriving for a new job as deputy of a Florida town she finds the chief shot, a case which will lead to an assault by the FBI on a compound of the very rich.
24) Scat
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Language
English
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
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Wedding cake decorator and maid of honor in her beloved cousin's wedding, Piper Donovan must save the day when the impending nuptials are threatened by the disappearance of a bridesmaid, the discovery of a body on the wedding beach and the arrival of the lecherous, ex-drug dealer best man.
26) Bad monkey
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Language
English
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Anticipating his retirement from the Key West Police, Andrew Yancy tackles a murder case involving a human arm in his freezer, an investigation that pits him against a twitchy widow, a clueless real estate developer and a voodoo witch with a string of hapless lovers.
27) Double whammy
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English
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R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida -- and a lot that's rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, large-mouth bass tournaments. Here Decker will team up with a half-blind, half-mad hermit with an appetite for road kill; dare to kiss his ex-wife while she's in bed with her new...
28) The tiger rising
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English
Description
Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On the first day of vacation thirteen-year-old Davey Tsering wakes up early, slips out of his family's hotel room without telling anyone, and heads for the beach and a swim in the warm Floridian waters--and a fateful meeting with a shark.
30) Motor mouth
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English
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Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby returns to take on a whole new set of bad guys, Florida heat, colorful and dangerous characters, and high-stakes adventure, all the while romancing gorgeous race car driver Sam Hooker.
32) Ring of truth
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Series
[Marie Lightfoot series] volume 3
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A Florida clergyman is accused of conspiring with his lover to kill his wife, but true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot realizes that there is more to this case than meets the eye.
33) Iron orchid
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Series
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English
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Lance Cabot makes Holly an offer she can't refuse, to join an elite intelligence unit hunting down terrorists on American soil.
34) Strawberry girl
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English
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Birdie's family raises strawberries but Birdie dreams of an education.
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Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
In Florida, PI Harry Rice, owner of the Sand Bar beach pub, is hired by a woman to find a stolen gun collection, but he is told to lay off by her husband. A tale of adultery, smuggling and murder, written by an officer of the U.S. Customs Service, making his debut in fiction.
36) Standup guy
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English
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Giving legal advice to an unusually well-deported gentleman only to discover that several people are interested in the man's link to a long-ago crime, Stone Barrington pursues an investigation that leads him from Florida to the vacation homes of the Northeast.
37) Flush
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English
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With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
38) Star Island
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Series
[Skink series] volume 6
Language
English
Description
Ann DeLuisa, body double for drug-addled pop star Cherry Pye, is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo, and Cherry's entourage must rescue her while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry's public--and from Cherry herself.
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[Skink series] volume 4
Language
English
Description
An eco-terrorist in Florida strikes at a polluter by kidnaping his wife. In the process, Twilly Spree discovers a conspiracy by state politicians to turn a wildlife sanctuary into a golf course. He also discovers that the polluter's wife fancies him.
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