5.5 x 8.5 | 400 pages
Hardcover | Trade Paper
August 2010
Excerpt


Florida—like hell, only hotter.

Florida Heat Wave, edited by Michael Lister, is a collection of crime stories set in the gun-shaped state by Florida’s foremost crime writers.  

Oppressive.

Stifling.

Crazy-making.

The suffocating heat makes you do things—it seeps in through your pores and sucks the life out of you. Like the bloody smear of a swatted mosquito on sweat-soaked skin, violence erupts suddenly, but the damage it does lingers long after.

From the pine-tree lined rural highways of North Florida through the tourist traps of Central Florida to the tropical, international environs of SOBE, come stories of sun-faded noir, orange pulp served up freshly squeezed by the Sunshine State’s very best practitioners.

Stories from: James O. Born, James W. Hall, Lisa Unger, Alice Jackson, Jonathon King, Jim Pascoe, Carolyn Haines, Tom Corcoran, Raven McMillian, Mark Raymond Falk, Christine Kling, John Lutz, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Michael Lister, John Dufresne, Bob Morris, John Bond, and Mary Anna Evans.

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Michael Lister is a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright who lives in Northwest Florida. A former prison chaplain, Michael is the author of the "Blood" series featuring prison chaplain/detective, John Jordan and a second series featuring Jimmy "Soldier" Riley, a PI in Panama City during Word War II.

In addition to fiction, Michael writes two columns, River Readings (RiverReadings.com), chronicling his search for wisdom and meaning, and Of Font and Film (OfFontandFilm.com), reviews of film and fiction. Michael's latest novel, Double Exposure, a literary thriller set in the North Florida pine flats and river swamps deep in the Apalachicola River Basin, comes out in September 2009. When Michael isn't writing, he teaches college, operates a charity and community theater.

 

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