The Glades Edge Series
Book 1: Trap Line
The Glades keep what you bury. Until the tide turns.
Opening day of stone-crab season. Wade Loftin’s first trap comes up heavy.
Lashed to it is Preston Kell, the Naples developer whose Mangrove Reach marina project wants the old Everglades City waterfront, and who had a commission vote twelve days away.
Detective Cal Ruark grew up on these islands. He’s a former wildlife officer who knows every tide, oyster bar and mangrove cut, and the families who still remember his father from the smuggling days. That should make him the right man for the case. It may make him the worst.
Kell’s widow stands to collect eight million dollars. His partner can’t stop talking to the press. Half of Chokoloskee wanted Kell gone. And an anonymous tip keeps pointing at the Pelican Hammock tract and what might be buried there.
To find a killer, Cal has to follow the money from Port Royal mansions into the backcountry, and dig into his own people before the Glades close over the truth.
Book 2: Bounty Line — Coming Soon
Detective Cal Ruark returns in the second Glades Edge novel. Join the list to hear first when it is ready.