Book description
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard
In an expensive Miami neighbourhood, Sergeant Hoke Moseley, Homicide
Division, is called to investigate the lethal overdose of a young
junkie. But what seems like a routine OD gives Moseley cause to doubt
- particularly when he meets the dead kid's stunningly attractive
stepmother.
And now he's been told he has to move from his beloved El Dorado
hotel to a proper apartment. With his two teenage daughters dumped on
him, a troublesome ex-wife, and a new partner struggling with an
unplanned pregnancy, it starts to feel like maybe that stepmother
might be that answer to all his problems. Or maybe she's just the
start of them...
'Captures the quirky, violent, contradictory place that is Miami.
Drugs, beaches, crazed immigrants, rednecks, cults, alligators and
crooked cops, it's all here in abundance' Maxim Jakubowski
This is the second in the Hoke Mosely series; other titles in
Penguin Modern Classics include Miami Blues, Sideswipe
and The Way We Die Now, while fans of the books include Quentin
Tarantino, Elmore Leonard and James Lee Burke.
Charles Willeford was a highly decorated tank commander (Silver Star,
Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Luxembourg Croix de Guerre) with the Third
Army in World War II. He was also a professional horse trainer, boxer,
radio announcer, and painter. Willeford, the author of twenty novels,
created the Miami detective series featuring Hoke Moseley, which
includes
Miami Blues, Sideswipe, The Way We Die Now,
and
New Hope for the Dead
. He died in 1988.
