GREEN WATER GHOST
A Luanne Fogarty Mystery
ISBN: 978-0-9725078-8-2
t’s Halloween, and the sixth Luanne Fogarty mystery puts her between history and present day, rivaling religious factions, folk legends and reality. Ghouls, of all kinds, abound in the north Florida woods and water holes when new bones among the old are found in an abandoned site.
“...a side of Florida few tourists see: a dark place where everyone has secrets.”
- Mystery News
HIGH WATER HELLION
A Luanne Fogarty Mystery
ISBN: 978-0-9725078-6-8
he fifth installment of the Luanne Fogarty mystery series takes her from the seven hills and swamplands of Tallahassee to the flat lake country of central Florida. There to do a personal favor for Sheriff’s Detective Amado, she encounters everything from mating alligators to hurricanes to killers.
Tony Amado, sheriff’s detective, has often relied upon Luanne to find things in the deep water caves and sinkholes of north Florida. When his aunt dies, he needs to find out if she had tossed valuables into the lake behind her house. It’s not a matter for the law. Thus, to Luanne’s surprise, he invites her to do a personal favor for him. The aunt lives nearly 200 miles away and what seemed a heart attack isn’t. When Luanne arrives in the country lake area, she encounters more than a simple dive amongst mating alligators. Strange neighbors, ranging from teens to the nineties, cast suspicion over the aunt’s death. Luanne soon finds herself caught up in downright murder.
During all this, the hurricane season wreaks its own havoc. Pasquin, Vernon, and Marshall Long are back for the dangerous ride when Luanne and Tony bring them into the search when the local law enforcement is busy with the storms.
“Set during hurricane season, this engaging mystery immerses us in bad water, bad weather, and some very bad people.”
- Mystery Scene Magazine
“Luanne Fogarty is a great heroine… gutsy with a soft side… and the secondary characters most intriguing.”
- Mystery News
BILGE WATER BONES
A Luanne Fogarty Mystery
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Water Bones is the fourth in the Luanne Fogarty series of gripping mysteries
set in the swamps and underwater caves of Northern Florida where Luanne
serves as adjunct scuba diver for the sheriff’s department.
Swamp grown eccentrics appear when a teenage boy goes missing after a wild night of boating antics that result in an accident. But do eccentrics commit murder? Sheriff’s diver, Luanne Fogarty, faces her own mortality when she aids in the search for the teen's body, presumed drowned, and runs into an old skeleton in the bilge of a sunken boat.
Alam’s writing is lyrical, shot through with sly humor and affection for the denizens of the swamp. Bilge Water Bones begins: “The waters of the South are like its people, strong with underlying evils and a beauty that lasts forever. And like the people they hide ghosts that ride the surface in the early morning mists when the water is warmer than the air. Sometimes the mists sweep through the palmetto bushes on shore and creep between the heavy oaks like a grand lady’s white handkerchief, folding in and out, rising from the forest floor now, crawling back into the bottom scrub, only to reappear on the front porch and lie in wait for the blistering sun to evaporate all but the memory…”
COLD WATER CORPSE
A Luanne Fogarty Mystery
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third in the Luanne Fogarty series of gripping mysteries, set in the swamps
and underwater caves of northern Florida.
This time Luanne Fogarty goes where no adjunct sheriff’s diver has
ever gone before: to a run-down southern carnival with cotton candy, fried
gator, and a gigantic snake on the loose. Luanne is hot on the trail of
a killer who knows both the glade-hidden waters and the down, dirty, and
greasy fun of the carnival life. Dodging tacky circus acts and sleazy
con men, she must search for the killer of the serial killer who has been
dumping the bodies of young women in the cold springs. Along the way,
she encounters a midget dominatrix and finds that all is not as it seems
under the greasepaint.
“Alam has gone and invented a whole new genre—the swamp noir—and then she plays it like a fiddle.”
- John Shannon,
Author of the Jack Liffey Mysteries
RIVER WHISPERS
Sometimes it takes a death to make us see life clearly.
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Pope, a long-time city dweller, returns to the north Florida country,
where she was raised, to keep a promise to her beloved grandmother by
scattering her ashes along the river she loved, and along which Maebelle
was raised. River Whispers chronicles her solitary boat journey through
the wilderness, during which she finds companionship, falls into mortal
danger, and recalls a long-forgotten violent death. The tall tales of
river life she heard as a child come back to haunt her as she slowly recognizes
the awful truth of her grandmother’s life.
“…an excitingly atmoshperic, noirish look at the backwaters of Florida…”
- Oline H. Cogdill,
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel
DEEP WATER DEATH
A Luanne Fogarty Mystery
uanne
Fogarty, adjunct scuba diver and reluctant linguistics professor, resurfaces
in Glynn Marsh Alam’s second mystery, DEEP WATER DEATH, set in the swamps
outside Tallahassee. Stumbling upon two midwives, Luanne finds herself
awash in watery peril and old secrets. And where is the baby…?
“Inventive,
stylish… manages to bring to life yet another part of Florida’s seemingly
endless killing grounds: the deep and cold freshwater springs of the northern
part of the state…”
- Dick Adler,
The Chicago Tribune
DIVE DEEP and DEADLY
A Luanne Fogarty Mystery
uanne Fogarty, adjunct scuba diver and reluctant linguistics professor, makes her debut in Glynn Marsh Alam’s first novel, DIVE DEEP and DEADLY, set in the swamps outside Tallahassee.
Born in a swamp house, Luanne has returned to the dilapidated structure
after her father’s death. She lives on the Palmetto River, between the
glass bottomed boat park of Palmetto Spring and the tiny river town of
Fogarty Spring. Her nearest neighbor and friend is the octogenarian Cajun,
Dorian Pasquin.
Luanne’s struggle to repair the house comes to a halt when sheriff’s detective,
Tony Amado, asks her to check out one of the deep underwater caves at
Palmetto Spring where some boys have reported seeing a body. Luanne,
a scuba diver who has a lifetime of familiarity with the dangerous caverns,
goes down and locates the body of an elderly woman. When the regular sheriff’s
deputies dive the next morning to retrieve the body, it has disappeared.
“This book is a steamy southern mystery filled with swamp danger and diving
know-how.”
- Elizabeth Daniels Squire,
author of Forget About Murder
“You’ll find beauty, wonder and mystery. This is an exciting debut novel from
a wonderful talent.”
- Dale Furutani,
Anthony and Macavity winning author of the Ken Tanaka mystery series and the Samurai Mystery Trilogy
