A Sporting Murder

<p>It's smooth sailing for Eve Appel and her friend Madeleine owners of Second to None Consignment Shop in rural Florida's Sabal Bay land of swamps cowboys and lots and lots of 'gators. Eve and her detective boyfriend Alex have joined Madeleine and her new beau David Wilson for a pleasure cruise on his boat. But cloudy dangerous waters lie ahead. A near fatal encounter with Blake Reed David's supremely nasty neighbor is soon followed by a shooting death on the dividing line between David and Blake's land. Both men run sport-hunting reserves but Blake imports exotics from Africa and promotes gator killing while David stays within the law pointing clients toward the abundant quail and turkey as well as the wild pigs that ravage the landscape. Nevertheless when a mutual client is killed it is David who is arrested and charged with murder. Blake's nastiness is only exceeded by that of his wife Elvira who forces Eve and Madeleine out of their shop intending to replace it with a consignment shop of her own. It seems that bad luck looms over them all even Eve's brawny and hard-to-resist Miccosukee Indian friend Sammy whose nephew has disappeared. As the case against David grows stronger and his friends' misfortunes multiply Eve and her strange and diverse group of friends including her ex a mobster her grandma and Sammy's extended family band together to take on the bad guys. But the waters are getting muddier and more troubled and Eve and Madeleine may end up inundated in every sense of the word. </p>