Shot on Location: A Key West Mystery Author: Visit Amazon's Laurence Shames Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1491241454 | Format: EPUB
Shot on Location: A Key West Mystery Description
- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 22, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1491241454
- ISBN-13: 978-1491241455
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
You probably can't hear it from where you sit, but there is jubilation in the land.
Readers are celebrating a new title from Laurence Shames. And better yet, the return of Joey and Bert and the whole off-center population and enchanting physique of Key West. Cause for celebration, indeed.
Of course this isn't the first book Larry wrote since he moved out of the Keys. "The Angels' Share" was very nice, and a surprising new direction for him. But it's kind of like going to a B.B. King concert and he plays a bluegrass number or a finger picking Segovia concerto. Nice, but not what you came for. But when he goes back to de blooze, it only takes a few notes for you to know he's back on home turf. And as soon as the Cadillac with the starred windshield shows up, you know back in good hands.
But not the "same old same old", exactly. Yeah, the Yawkers are there, and Miami mobsters lurk like mooching sharks. But this is a different kind of story, about different people.
The lead character, Jake, is a prominent ghostwriter a little burnt because his knack for writing best-sellers for other people has kept him from expressing his own voice. Not a stretch, more like a "write what you know" riff for Mr. Shames, who originally made his bones by ghostwriting a NYT best-seller for somebody else. What's stretchy here, perhaps, is that this book is a different breed of fish from his earlier Key West works: it veers towards other genres, rather the sui generis Shames created with the "Florida Straits" series. It's a familiar gesture, I guess you'd say: a self-appointed sleuth running around talking to a bunch of people trying to find out "Whoduunit?"
But "It" isn't a murder.
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