Series: Key West
by Author Laurence Shames
The Naked Detective (2001)
The Naked Detective is a poor man's version of a Carl Hiassan Novel. The hero, Pete Amersterdam, isn't a real detective. He goes to remodel his house and his accountant convinces him that he can get a huge tax deduction if he opens a detective's office in his house, runs an ad, etc. Amesterdam ge...
Sunburn (2015)
One quarter of this book was somewhat intriguing, But only after you get through the first 3 quarters of it. First major portion of it had to much redundancy,examples being, describing in way to much detail how one character's little dog had problems producing bowel movements and talking about a ...
Welcome to Paradise (2000)
Big Al Marracoto is a player in the New York City mafia. Big Al Tuschman is a furniture salesman in New Jersey. Their individual state license plates say 'Big Al'. They end up in Key West on vacation at the same time. The guys hired to annoy Big Al Marracoto, get their Big Al's confused. But all ...
Virgin Heat (1997)
I enjoyed the first two Laurence Shames books I read. I thought they had a certain whacky sitcom 1970s TV show kind of vibe and I enjoyed them for what they are. The quality of the writing in this book equaled the others but lacked the charm and humor. While I warmed up to the characters in the ...
Mangrove Squeeze (1999)
For years I've been cursing the heavens and randomly shoving small children to the floor in the local grocery store's cereal aisle, not because I'm a bad man, but because not a single one of Laurence Shames's loosely related Key West books were available on Kindle. To those of us here at FPF, tha...