Gumbo Limbo

Gumbo Limo marks thenext Alex Rutledge mystery from critically acclaimed author Tom Corcoran. Key West has never been so deadly.... Alex Rutledge freelance and part-time Key West crime scene photographer awakes to his first day off in months. Late August the off-season the dog days. Everything''s okay until his phone rings. His old navy buddy Zack Cahill now a successful Chicago banker is in town and at 8:00 a.m. drunk in Sloppy Joe''s. Zack demands that Rutledge join him for a celebratory beer. When Alex arrives at the bar eight minutes later Cahill is gone. The day continues downhill. A high-noon murder in the tourist district the ransacked apartment of a local bartender and the chance encounter of Abby Womack Cahill''s ex-mistress combine to convince Alex that Zach Cahill''s disappearance may be linked to all of these events. An overnight fire and a drive-by shooting the next morning amplify the strangeness and danger. By calling in favors from a crew of Key West characters stepping aside of law enforcement and traveling to New Orleans in an attempt to help his friend Rutledge will fall deep into a mysterious range war a fight for the profits from a twenty-year-old smuggling deal.