Bone Island Mambo: An Alex Rutledge Mystery: 3 (Alex Rutledge Mysteries 3)

A pleasant Key West Sunday in January turns into a tropical nightmare. . Its early. The tourists are still asleep. Freelance and part-time crime photographer Alex Rutledge bicycles near-vacant streets taking pictures for his own enjoyment. But hes challenged at a restoration district construction site accused by a developer of snapping photos for an expose. . An hour later the city police request Rutledges forensic photo expertise. A murder victim has been found - at the same work site. Detective Dexter Hayes Jr. is caustic and inept and Rutledge is dismissed before he completes his work. An hour later the county sheriff Chicken Neck Liska asks Alex to photograph another murder victim this time on nearby Stock Island. . Rutledge soon suspects that the murders are linked - illogically through him. He cant divulge the link to his lover Teresa Barga for fear of compromising her police media liaison job. Alex questions the detectives blundering while the cops begin to link him to the crimes. A powerful real estate broker offers Rutledge an odd lucrative job. Friends are threatened. He and Teresa dodge gunshots. Yet there is no identifiable antagonist no motive no reason for Rutledge to be a hub for evil. To protect himself and his friends to avoid arrest - unsuccessfully at first - he must scratch for information on an island where few tell the truth. . At the core of Bone Island Mambo is betrayal retribution and revenge. The plot twists in surprising directions and Corcorans characters are true characters never as laid-back as they first appear. Visit Key West and hang on for dear life.