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    Audiobook8 hours

    Bone Key

    Written by Les Standiford

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    In 1931, a storm passes through the Florida straits, soon followed by a devastating explosion aboard a freighter, The Magdalena. Decades later, John Deal, the brooding real-estate developer and hero of eight previous Standiford mysteries, is traveling to Key West to talk over a prospective project with an old friend of his father's, the wealthy entrepreneur Franklin Stone. En route, Deal stops to help a young black man being harassed by police officers on a lonely beach road. Two days later, the young man turns up in Deal's hotel room - dead and clutching a label from a bottle of rare vintage wine, 1929, worth thousands of dollars. As Deal finds out, while trying to save his own life, past and present collide in this mystery where all answers point to a seventy-year-old tale of piracy and murder, and where a former girlfriend suddenly appears for reasons only she knows.

    "The action moves so quickly that each scene is like a little gasp for breath. There is art to it, and Standiford makes it look easy." (The New York Times)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 23, 2004
    ISBN9780736698382
    Author

    Les Standiford

    Les Standiford is the bestselling author of twenty books and novels, including the John Deal mystery series, and the works of narrative history The Man Who Invented Christmas (a New York Times Editors’ Choice) and Last Train to Paradise. He is the director of the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami, where he lives with his wife, Kimberly, a psychotherapist and artist. Visit his website at www.les-standiford.com.

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    • 2/5
      Definately a guy's novel. A killing in every page. A good mindless read for the beach. Bought it at a second hand bookshop in the Keys.
    • 3/5
      Miami construction contractor John Deal is in Key West to discuss a project when he stumbles into a mystery involving a different kind of treasure, but one that still inspires murder.
    • 4/5
      This was my first novel by Standiford and I quite enjoyed it. It's written in the John D. McDonald style and this good author knows how to tell a story. It could have been a much longer and more interesting book but his "stick to the plot" style moves the book at a brisk and interesting pace. I will be reading more books by this author. I'm told his history books are very good so I will be reading those also.