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Don Bruns is a songwriter, musician and advertising executive. He lives in Sarasota and frequents the Caribbean.
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| Don't Sweat the Small Stuff |
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While waiting for the newly formed More or Less Investigations to get off the ground, James Lessor takes a job with a traveling carnival show.
James and his partner Skip Moore are hired to investigate a string of accidents and at least one death in the past year at the carnival.
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| Stuff to Spy For |
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Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are stuck in dead-end jobs in Carol City, Florida. Skip lands a job with a huge commission, but plenty of strings attached. To collect, Skip has to be the pretend boyfriend of Sarah Crumbly, an employee who is having an affair with the company's married president.
Skip and James create a spymobile when the president's wife offers them a tidy sum for the details.
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| Bahama Burnout |
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Mick Sever heads to Nassau, Bahamas, home of the legendary Highland Studios. The entire studio was destroyed by a mysterious fire. Mick is sent to get the inside story, but instead he has to act fast when a smashed guitar and erased tracks send a warning of murder.
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| Stuff Dreams are Made Of |
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When Reverend Preston Cashdollar brings his traveling tent revival to town, James Lessor and Skip Moore reinvent themselves--as Holy Rollers with a catering business. |
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| St. Barts Breakdown |
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Rock and roll journalist Mick Sever's interview with music legend Danny Murtz takes him to St. Barts as Murtz's romantic conquests seem to disappear into thin air.
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| Stuff to Die For |
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Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore start a hauling business when James receives a surprise inheritance. Unfortunately, their first job comes with both a fat paycheck and a bloody human finger.
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| South Beach Shakedown |
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Mick Sever and Ginny investigate famous rock star Gideon Pike's disappearance from his South Beach condo.
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| Jamaica Blue |
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Music journalist Mick Sever follows reggae/rap band Derrick and the Laments to Miami and Key West while investigating the band's connection to the savage murders of two of the band's female fans. |
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| South Beach Shakedown |
| by Becky Swets |
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Don Bruns’ South Beach Shakedown: The Diary of Gideon Pike did something that hasn’t happened to me since Harlan Coben’s Tell No One: it kept me up all night. I couldn’t stop reading once I started. This is the essence of the book: it grabs you in the first paragraph and never lets go.
Mick Sever is relaxing, ready for a break, when he gets a call from his ex-wife, telling him that Gideon Pike has disappeared. Gideon Pike, the world-famous rock musician, has vanished from his condo in South Miami Beach. Finding out why he disappeared sends Mick and Ginny on a roller-coaster ride of a thriller. And all is not what it seems in the world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Especially in South Florida, where people can wear three faces even on a good day.
Mick and Ginny hook up again, the pull of their relationship dragging them back into bed together, even though both of them know it will never work. The sexual tension between these two sizzles off the page. The dialogue crackles with suspense, and South Beach is a character all its own.
Secrets, lies, and long-range rifles play an integral part in this engrossing mystery thriller. Bruns’ other Mick Sever mysteries were great reads, but this one goes above and beyond the call of writing to pull you into the story like a black hole reaching out to grab you by the throat.
Don Bruns shows his growth as a writer and observer of the human condition in this marvelous addition to the series. You can almost hear Pike singing his pounding lyrics, feel the deep booming of the bass drums, taste the twang of the electric guitars, and know that the secrets of the diary will somehow lead to murder and mayhem.
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| Posted 02-11-2006 |
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