Hour of the Manatee - Tony Lowell, Bk 1 Author:E. C. Ayres She calls him a "hippie deadbeat." — He thinks she's a "hard-nosed yuppie." — But they need each other to catch a killer from the past. — Tony Lowell is a shaggy 1960s dropout, ex-hotshot press photographer and occasional P.I. In a shack on Florida's sleepy mangrove-fringed Gulf Coast he plays Beatles, reads Zen, and res... more »tores an old sailboat.
Detective Lena Bedrosian is ultra-1990s -- a brilliant by-the-book cop who works hard, lives clean, wears a Halston suit, and cuts right through chauvinism with her razor-sharp tongue.
Lowell and Bedrosian detest each other, until the murder of Lowell's latest client -- an elderly housekeeper about to blow the lid off a 1966 drowning -- pitches them both into the blueblood enclave of Palm Coast Harbor. Together, they'll dodge the FBI, hunt out witnesses who turn up as worm food, and get sucked into a quarter-century of power-house family secrets, a Supreme Court scandal, and a killer political hurricane that's getting ready to blow them away.« less