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Ray Slaverson, a world-weary Florida police detective, has his hands full with the murders of two attorneys and a third suspicious death, all within twenty-four hours. Ray doesn’t believe in coincidences, but he can’t find a single link between the dead men, and he and his partner soon smash into an investigative stonewall.
Kate Garcia, Ray’s fiancée, knows more than she should. She helped one of the dead attorneys, just hours before he took a bullet to the head, study an old newspaper in the library where she works. Kate might be the only person still alive who knows what he was digging up—except for his killer.
When Kate starts trying to discover what’s behind the murders, she turns up disturbing links between the three dead men that track back to her family’s troubled past. But she has plenty of reasons to keep her mouth shut. Her discovery unleashes a cat-and-mouse game that threatens to sink her and those she loves in a high tide of danger.
Genre: Mystery
Kate Garcia, Ray’s fiancée, knows more than she should. She helped one of the dead attorneys, just hours before he took a bullet to the head, study an old newspaper in the library where she works. Kate might be the only person still alive who knows what he was digging up—except for his killer.
When Kate starts trying to discover what’s behind the murders, she turns up disturbing links between the three dead men that track back to her family’s troubled past. But she has plenty of reasons to keep her mouth shut. Her discovery unleashes a cat-and-mouse game that threatens to sink her and those she loves in a high tide of danger.
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"A tale with as many gnarled twists as a tide-swept Florida mangrove thicket. Claire Matturro spins the gripping, character-rich story of Kate Garcia, all the way from her shell-road youth to a tangle of bodies and motivations, where just one of the victims threatened might be the state's fragile environment." - Russ Hall
"The Smuggler's Daughter is a searing and salty novel that thrills and entertains while exploring the coldblooded and ruthless crimes so prevalent in Florida's often sordid past. Crime fiction has long taken a hard look at society's moral code and in her latest offering, Claire Matturro delivers a tale that remains true to the highest standards of the genre." - Gale Massey
"I'm a sucker for old Florida locales and there's plenty to be had in The Smuggler's Daughter. You smell the salt and feel the humidity in this Gulf coast hodge-podge of hardscrabble fishermen, ruthless pot smugglers, environmental activists, murdered lawyers, and past-meets-present. Matturro delivers one hell of a coldblooded tale played out in the Florida heat." - Andrew Nance
"The Smuggler's Daughter is a searing and salty novel that thrills and entertains while exploring the coldblooded and ruthless crimes so prevalent in Florida's often sordid past. Crime fiction has long taken a hard look at society's moral code and in her latest offering, Claire Matturro delivers a tale that remains true to the highest standards of the genre." - Gale Massey
"I'm a sucker for old Florida locales and there's plenty to be had in The Smuggler's Daughter. You smell the salt and feel the humidity in this Gulf coast hodge-podge of hardscrabble fishermen, ruthless pot smugglers, environmental activists, murdered lawyers, and past-meets-present. Matturro delivers one hell of a coldblooded tale played out in the Florida heat." - Andrew Nance
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