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| AUTHOR: | LAURENCE SHAMES |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Dell |
| ISBN: | 0440215110 |
| TYPE: | Fiction, Fiction - Mystery/ Detective, Mystery & Detective - General, Fiction / General |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of Florida Straits
A perfect book I must have bought this book three separate times. I have to keep it on my shelves. It remains one of my favorites -- and my husband's too.
As crime fiction writers go, Laurence Shames is in a league of his own. FLORIDA STRAITS pulses with humanity (John Steinbeck meets Elmore Leonard?) His characters are caught up in bigger-than-life situations, but they're all real people. The humor is real. Words like 'farcical' and 'romp' don't apply.
If you're new to Laurence Shames, I suggest you start here. I think it's his best. Mangrove Squeeze, I'm sorry to say, I couldn't finish. The Naked Detective, I haven't read yet. The others, great, but this one outshines them.
I love this book.
One book and I was hooked.
This novel was the most thoroughly delightful read I have had in a long, long time. Laurence Shames infuses his characters with so much, well, character, that they are just begging to come to life. You're right there as the mob goons are talking with each other in the writer's mob-phonetically-correct spelling of "whaddaya sayin?" The characters are so well developed that you can't help but be drawn into their world. And it's such a quirky and interesting world that you have no desire to resist. This writer pulls off the strange mix of mob/mystery/comedy so deliciously that you'll want to come back for more. After reading "Florida Straits", I quickly read all of the Lawrence Shames books available. He is truly a joy to read. What a talent for writing. Another book, please, Laurence!
Couldn't put it down even when I reached the end....
I have never read the same book twice in one weekend. Before. Even this jaded reader was surprised at the turns of this plot. You can smell Key West, the descriptions are so keen. And he does a wonderful thing in tracing a character's emotions in elegant detail - then lets you hear how they clomp out of the character's mouth. This is the twitchiest, funniest, most deftly written book I've run across in years. Why isn't it the funniest movie? I don't know - but I feel I have already seen it. Twice!