The first Luanne Fogarty mystery. Luanne Fogarty, adjunct scuba diver and reluctant linguistics professor, makes her debut in Glynn Marsh Alam's first novel, DIVE DEEP and DEADLY, set in the swamps outside Tallahassee. Born in a swamp house, Luanne has returned to the dilapidated structure after her father's death. She lives on the Palmetto River, between the glass bottomed boat park of Palmetto Spring and the tiny river town of Fogarty Spring. Her nearest neighbor and friend is the octogenarian Cajun, Dorian Pasquin. Luanne's struggle to repair the house comes to a halt when sheriff's detective, Tony Amado, asks her to check out one of the deep underwater caves at Palmetto Spring where some boys have reported seeing a body. Luanne, a scuba diver who has a lifetime of familiarity with the dangerous caverns, goes down and locates the body of an elderly woman. When the regular sheriff's deputies dive the next morning to retrieve the body, it has disappeared. "From the Florida swampland, where sudden violent death is a fact of nature, comes Luanne Fogarty with a knack for survival and solving murders. Lush with the feel of the wild Florida swamp, DIVE DEEP AND DEADLY seeths with danger both above ground and in treacherous underwater caves. This book is a steamy Southern mystery filled with swamp danger and diving know-how" Elizabeth Squire author of Forget About Murder

Dive Deep and Deadly

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Alam, Glynn Marsh

Mystery

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In the seventh Luanne Fogarty North Florida mystery, our favorite adjunct diver finds herself in over her head when a tough, lonely little girl asks for help solving an old family mystery on an isolated island teeming with snakes, secrets, Spanish moss, and murder.

Moon Water Madness

Luanne Fogarty, adjunct scuba diver and reluctant linguistics professor, resurfaces in Glynn Marsh Alam's second mystery, DEEP WATER DEATH, set in the swamps outside Tallahassee. Stumbling upon two midwives, Luanne finds herself awash in watery peril and old secrets. And where is the baby....? The second title in the Luanne Fogarty series of mysteries by Glynn Marsh Alam. "Inventive, stylish.... manages to bring to life yet another part of Florida's seemingly endless killing grounds; the deep and cold freshwater springs of the northern part of the state..." Dick Adler (The Chicago Tribune)

Deep Water Death

Sometimes it takes a death to make us see life clearly. 
Maebelle Pope, a long-time city dweller, returns to the north Florida country, where she was raised, to keep a promise to her beloved grandmother by scattering her ashes along the river she loved, and along which Maebelle was raised. River Whispers chronicles her solitary boat journey through the wilderness, during which she finds companionship, falls into mortal danger, and recalls a long-forgotten violent death. The tall tales of river life she heard as a child come back to haunt her as she slowly recognizes the awful truth of her grandmother’s life.

River Whispers

Literature & Fiction

Literary

The third in the Luanne Fogarty series of gripping mysteries, set in the swamps and underwater caves of northern Florida where Luanne serves as adjunct scuba diver for the sheriff's department. In it, Luanne investigates the denizens of a shabby backwoods carnival after discovering the bodies of several women in the cold springs. In a setting of circus clowns, a midget dominatrix, and a snake handler minus one snake, she searches for the cold-blooded serial murderer.

Cold Water Corpse (Luanne Fogarty)

Bilge Water Bones is the fourth in the Luanne Fogarty series of gripping mysteries set in the swamps and underwater caves of Northern Florida where Luanne serves as adjunct scuba diver for the sheriff’s department. Swamp grown eccentrics appear when a teenage boy goes missing after a wild night of boating antics that result in an accident. But do eccentrics commit murder? Sheriff's diver, Luanne Fogarty, faces her own mortality when she aids in the search for the teen's body, presumed drowned, and runs into an old skeleton in the bilge of a sunken boat. Alam’s writing is lyrical, shot through with sly humor and affection for the denizens of the swamp. Bilge Water Bones begins: "The waters of the South are like its people, strong with underlying evils and a beauty that lasts forever. And like the people they hide ghosts that ride the surface in the early morning mists when the water is warmer than the air. Sometimes the mists sweep through the palmetto bushes on shore and creep between the heavy oaks like a grand lady’s white handkerchief, folding in and out, rising from the forest floor now, crawling back into the bottom scrub, only to reappear on the front porch and lie in wait for the blistering sun to evaporate all but the memory…"

Bilge Water Bones: A Luanne Fogarty Mystery

United States

In this fifth installment of the Luanne Fogarty mystery series, Luanne has headed south into the flat lake, snake, and gator country of central Florida with her scuba gear and canoeâseems her boss, macho Detective Amado, has finally been forced to ask Luanne's help. His beloved old aunt is dead and strange things are disappearing into the murky watery gator-mating ground behind the old ladyâs house. And blowing east from the steamy Gulf of Mexico is a hurricane that threatens another kind of violence. Will Luanne catch the human killers and get back to her beloved swamp before it's too late?Favorite charactersâPasquin, Luanneâs Cajun octogenarian neighbor, Vernon her lover and fellow diver, and Marshall Long, medical examinerâare back for the dangerous ride as Luanne and Tony bring them into the search while the local law enforcement battles the wind and water of the hurricane. âGators, bottomless caves, mucky sinkholes, blood-sucking mosquitoes and drippy humidity come together in a Florida swamp to provide the perfect eerie elements for murderâ¦. The story lines flow like the Palmetto River, which hides another world beneath its smooth surface.ââ Dawn GoldsmithâInventive, stylishâ¦manages to bring to life yet another part of Floridaâs seemingly endless killing grounds: the deep and cold freshwater springs of the northern part of the stateâ¦.ââ Dick Adler, The Chicago Tribune "Alam's novels are thoroughly enjoyable. They offer, in addition to a good read, a fascinating look at the swampland of northern Florida and the world of diving in mysterious rivers and bottomless caves."â Lauren Haney, author of the Lieutenant Bak ancient Egyptian mysteries

High Water Hellion

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