In 1969 there was a novel called Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe. A great literary hoax, the book was actually concocted by twenty-four journalists, each taking a turn at a chapter. Tortuga Triangle carries on in that same spirit, but makes no apologies about its satiric roots. The product of six Key West-based writers, rascals, and raconteurs, this adventure takes you from Haiti to Key West and points unknown as the U.S. Coast Guard, law enforcement officials, and mysterious figures set their sites on a nefarious villain known to all as Da Turtle. This chase involves the Ton-Ton Macoute, a Voodoo priestess, a Polynesian mystery woman ... and a flock of pigeons!

Tortuga Triangle

Literature & Fiction

Committee, The

Humor & Satire

Whiz Bang

Sew Be It (A Quilters Club Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Rockwell, Marjory Sorrell

Mystery

For those of you who read Webley .45, Simpson’s first collection of short stories, and have been waiting for more, Soulmates has arrived and does not disappoint. Simpson’s plots are devious, his characters real because they are struggling with their own good and evil intentions. His language is intimately descriptive, even poetic in places. The paternal grandfather: “a shriveled jackal of a man, regnant but warm, reached his mottled hands up, up to Arthur’s face, pulled him down, and kissed him on both cheeks;” The father: “his opinions crystalized instantly in the chill of his brain and rained down on Arthur in jagged pieces.” And the maternal grandfather: “musing over his relationship with his grandson, he saw a delicate symmetry to it, life’s beginning and end, beneficial to both, but fragile and fleeting.” Fleeting the book is not, however. Soulmates will stay with you for some time.

Soulmates and Other Stories

Simpson, R.K.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Four Fingers Four Minute Mysteries 2

Rhoades, Shirrell

Take a world cruise with George, a traveler par excellence. Join in for an exotic array of ports of call, ranging from Columbia to Costa Rica, California to Hawaii, Japan to China, Egypt to Morocco. And numerous points in between! This is a photo book, offering glimpses through a traveler’s eyes. A freelance writer, recovering innkeeper, Key West wash-ashore and life-long boating, history and travel enthusiast, George is the perfect companion for a trip around the world.

Where in the World: Notes from the Tour Zone

Travel

Fontana, George

Specialty Travel

Unheard of

Bethel, John David

Thrillers & Suspense

The Strange Disappearance of Rose Stone (Hopewell)

Irvin, J.E.

Speaking for the Dead (A Moseby and French Mystery)

Craig, Bill

From the Author My late father, Frank Gales, reminded me several years ago to "write about what I know." I've been writing most of my adult life, mostly travel stories with a few stabs at some fictional short stories. I've always felt I had a book in me, and the concept of this story, about living on a houseboat in Key West, has been rattling around in my head for years. The true definition of fiction is a story about things that could happen. Everything in the novel definitely could happen, and in fact, much of it did happen. Fiction is blurred by truth in much of this story, both the historical part and the contemporary story. There was a fleet of Spanish ships sunk in 1733, and there are several stories about a large horde of gold and silver that was hauled off and hidden by Jefferson Davis and his Confederate cabinet at the end of the Civil War. Greek spongers did invade the Keys and were not welcome, and there was an attempted coup in Grenada. Look it all up.Personally, I lived in Key West off and on for nearly seven years in the 90's, and the last year I was there I lived in the exact houseboat that I write about. I do play music, and I'm an avid snorkeler, if not diver, but my son is an experienced diver and is accurately portrayed in the story. Both my kids are black belts in Tai-Kwan-Do. Virtually all the remaining characters in the novel are real people, or based on real people. My friends in the Keys have learned to be kind to me to avoid being killed in the sequel. I guess the only truly made-up person in the book, is me. But then again, who gets to live their life vicariously through themselves? A true paradox.I released this book through a publishing company in 2010 under the title Doorstop on a Houseboat in Key West. While it did get my book published, it was full of typos and errors, and the publisher did diddly squat to market my product and then added insult to injury by putting it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble at highway robbery prices. My last royalty check was a dollar eighty four cents. I got the publisher to release the book back to me early in 2013. Now it has a new name, fewer mistakes, a much better ending, and leads well into the sequel, "Key West Camouflage."Thanks to Karen Thurman for her help in developing both of our characters. Thanks to Stumpy (Rumpy) for being a character. Thank you Lisa Owens for the non-stop patience it takes to edit my poor punctuation. And of course a special thank you to my lovely wife Tina for enduring endless hours of my reading phrases, snippets and chapters while I tried to turn an idea into a novel, and taking the amazing photograph we used for the cover.I want to give special thanks to my ex landlord (the houseboat owner) and very good personal friend, Bob Moran, former Vice President of Treasure Salvors, Inc, the late Mel Fisher's company. Bob was part of the team that eventually discovered the most famous shipwreck in history, the Nuestra Senora de Atocha. Bob was able to provide both technical assistance and some great anecdotal stories about diving for treasure in the Keys.I dedicate this book to Bob. Product Description In this first novel of the series, we find former Navy Seal, Russell Bricklin “Bric” Wahl as the guy that every Key West local knows and every tourist wants to be. Relaxed, tanned by island sun and comfortable in his skin, he slides onto a barstool next to you at Schooner Wharf and lets you buy him a beer. Ex-Navy Seal, Key West native and full-time treasure diver, Bric has been searching for a fortune in gold and silver in the Florida Keys his whole life. Today he may have found it, but not the treasure he expected. Diving on a sunken Spanish Galleon, he finds three massive gold bars, not from the wreck that sunk in 1733, but apparently from the Civil War. Bric thinks he’s finally unearthed his fortune. Or has he? Review "Wayne Gales' novel makes you long for the good old days in Key West with mo

Treasure Key (A Bric Wahl Mystery)

Gales, Wayne

A Southern Lawyer Who Became a Mystic

Bashinsky, Sloan

History

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