The Naked Detective    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 65360 words. Agented by SKLA  on May 16, 2011. .
When Pete Amsterdam retired to Key West to live in relative luxury, he thought of his PI license as a simple tax dodge suggested by his accountant. So when a man who's supposedly been dead for two years turns up by the side of Pete's hot tub and asks him to help retrieve the money pouches he buried on a nearby island just before he disappeared, Pete is completely uninterested.

Sunburn    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 84650 words. Agented by SKLA  on May 16, 2011. .
When Vincente Delgatto—an aging Mafia Godfather—decides to spend some time in Key West with his half-Jewish bastard son Joe Goldman (who is decidedly not in the family business, he thinks the worst that can happen is he’ll get a little too much sun. After all, the only thing he wants is peace and quiet, and some time to recover from the recent loss of his sainted wife.

Tropical Depression    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 72070 words. Agented by SKLA  on May 19, 2011. .
Key West may very well get its first legal gambling parlor if Murray Zemelman, a.k.a. The Bra King, & his new partner Tommy Tarpon, a local Native American, can pull off their kooky, Prozac-induced plan. When a local mafioso and Key West's most crooked politician decide to get a piece of their action, Murray and Tommy fight for their money and lives in a battle of wits, writs and anti-depression.

Virgin Heat    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 74970 words. Agented by SKLA  on May 20, 2011. .
Mafia princess Angelina Amaro has only ever loved one man-and that lone affair was never consummated. Why not? Because her would-be lover, Sal Martucci, fled into the Witness Protection Program…after ratting out Angelina’s father. When Sal is found tending bar in Key West, the wildly dysfunctional Amaro clan heads south-one member with love on her mind, the others with murder in their hearts.

Welcome to Paradise    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 62840 words. Agented by SKLA  on May 25, 2011. .
A hilarious novel of mistaken identify and tropical crime that proves that while we all love the idea of a vacation, the truth is we often end up wishing we’d stayed home. Rich in the loopy insights and surprising tenderness that have become Shames's hallmarks, WELCOME TO PARADISE is his best novel yet.

Mangrove Squeeze    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 86910 words. Agented by SKLA  on November 8, 2011. .
People go to Key West for lots of different reasons. Not all of them are legal, sane, or in the interest of public safety. Tired of selling ad space for a third-rate Key West newspaper, Suki Sperakis hooks up with New Yorker Aaron Katz, who came to the Keys to run a simple B&B. When a handsome Russian accidentally tells Suki the real business operation his string of T-shirt shops, mayhem ensues...

The Big Time: Harvard B-School's Most Successful Class    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 58480 words. Agented by SKLA  on March 1, 2012. .
The Big Time: The Harvard Business School’s Most Successful Class & How It Shaped America—Shames’ debut book, examining the fabled “class the dollars fell on,” was named one of Newsweek’s 10 Best in 1986, and remains a seminal study of American privilege and power. Starting with elite schools and corporate boardrooms, the volume offers a compelling social history of a confident nation in the 80s.

The Hunger for More: Values in an Age of Greed    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 77730 words. Agented by SKLA  on March 2, 2012. .
Laurence Shames offers a brilliant and acerbic anatomy of America’s “Hunger for More,” from its roots in the optimism of the high frontier to its apotheosis in the frenzy–and panic–of the Reagan years. As a history of our love affair with consumption, as a prescription for a more durable and dignified national ethic, THE HUNGER FOR MORE is a book that defines the era just past, & maybe the future.

Scavenger Reef    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 83970 words. Agented by SKLA  on April 11, 2012. .
When artist Augie Silver disappears in a sailing accident, his Key West pals are devastated. They’re devastated again when he turns up alive—at least for a while.

Florida Straits    by Laurence Shames
Price: $2.99 USD. 93190 words. Agented by SKLA  on April 11, 2012. .
Joey Goldman, the very un-tough bastard son of a New York mafioso, flees to Key West for a fresh start. But the old neighborhood isn’t quite ready to let him get away.