Key West Mysteries

Set in Key West, this new mystery series promises a can’t-put-down story of murder, mayhem, and duplicity. Rick Marlow is a broken former NYPD cop who had been shot by his partner during the discovery of a dead body in an alley. Half-dead and barely recovered Marlow moves south to Key West, figuring the end of the road might mean a new beginning.

In bestselling author Bill Craig’s second entry in his Marlow series, a woman is washed up on the beach, battered and beaten, clutching a small leather sack and no memory of who she was. But Jorge Leone recognized what was in the sack and knew it meant trouble was blowing into Key West. He hired Marlow to find out who the girl was and where she had come from.

Marlow should have known that leaving the past behind is never easy. Because trouble seems to follow in his footsteps. Faces from the past turn up on Key West, and when one of them turns up dead, Marlow is faced with the most difficult case of his new life. He has to solve his own shooting, the one that ended his career on the NYPD. But the hardest part is that he has to solve it from Key West....

Detective Rick Marlow is at it again, solving crimes in Key West. Getting his act together. He had cut down to five cigarettes a day and only occasionally anything stronger than beer to drink. He was running nearly half a mile now, a long way from where he had been before he got shot. So when he gets a new case, he’s not prepared for the violence that’s sure to follow.

Willie Walker was a famous saxophonist in the Jazz world. He had played all around the world. But now he was retiring to Key West to open up a Jazz Club at the End of the Road. But people around him start dying and Willie gets the idea that somebody doesn’t want his club to open. But in order to keep Willie alive, Marlow has to uncover those secrets or they might end up singing the Midnight Blues.

A storm is approaching Key West and something wicked is blowing into town with it. Tina Cord had been on the run from a psychopathic stalker when she arrived on the island. Then she met Marlow. Now he may be the only one that can keep her out of the stalker’s hands. Lola Ponsberry, Walter’s secretary, had also arrived in Key West running from her past, and now it has caught up with her.

When Vern Brisbane is murdered after docking his shrimp boat, the Key West Police think it was a random killing. But Brisbane’s daughter Lilly disagrees. She hires Rick Marlow to look into the shrimper’s death and what he finds is a smuggling operation that is using shrimp boats to smuggle in both drugs and people. Marlow must navigate the Dark Waters to get the man behind it all.

A break in at the Hemingway museum leads to a lot of speculation on the coconut telegraph. Nothing appears to have been taken and the only damage is to an old desk that Ernest Hemingway had used. The Key West Police Department writes it off as routine vandalism. Except Katrina Morrow doesn’t think so. Katrina is a Hemingway scholar and suspects the thief was looking for a lost manuscript.