Bone Key, Les Standiford
Bone Key, Les Standiford
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Bone Key

Author: Les Standiford

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/23/2004


Synopsis

In 1931, a storm passes through the Florida straits, soon followed by a devastating explosion aboard a freighter, The Magdalena. Decades later, John Deal, the brooding real-estate developer and hero of eight previous Standiford mysteries, is traveling to Key West to talk over a prospective project with an old friend of his father's, the wealthy entrepreneur Franklin Stone. En route, Deal stops to help a young black man being harassed by police officers on a lonely beach road. Two days later, the young man turns up in Deal's hotel room - dead and clutching a label from a bottle of rare vintage wine, 1929, worth thousands of dollars. As Deal finds out, while trying to save his own life, past and present collide in this mystery where all answers point to a seventy-year-old tale of piracy and murder, and where a former girlfriend suddenly appears for reasons only she knows.

"The action moves so quickly that each scene is like a little gasp for breath. There is art to it, and Standiford makes it look easy." (The New York Times)

About The Author

Les Standiford is the author of the critically acclaimed Last Train to Paradise, Meet You in Hell, and Washington Burning, as well as several novels. Recipient of the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, he is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, where he lives with his wife and three children.Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US include CyranoHamlet, and MacBeth. In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. After recording nearly 250 books in five years, AudioFile Magazine named Scott “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy” and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brick’s range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Martin on September 24, 2021

This was my first John Deal novel and I found the characters difficult to swallow. A general contractor acting the part of the hard-boiled detective in a Mickey Spillane novel? The "romance" is never resolved as the shallowly drawn female character departs. Who was she really? I don't think I'll bot......more

Goodreads review by Meg on January 12, 2020

I really enjoyed this book. I am not a huge mystery reader but I liked that this one was set in Key West where I spend a lot of time. I was pleasantly surprised that this kept me in suspense and was really a good read while weaving in the atmosphere of Key West.......more

Goodreads review by Andy on August 17, 2021

Gonna need to look for the 1st 6 books I think!! Very Enjoyable!!......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer H on August 29, 2012

3.5 This was a fun read - another one of those south Florida macho men solving mysteries down in the Keys kind of books. For me, it was just long enough and had just enough going on to be a good book. The author disclaimed at the beginning that he was going to take literary license with the layout of......more

Goodreads review by David on May 18, 2014

Bone Key (John Deal #7) by Les Standiford (G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002)(Fiction - Mystery/ Thriller). John Deal tries to solve a mystery where a young black man was killed apparently while in police custody. Nobody will help - and Deal keeps hearing allusions to a seventy year old mystery - and implica......more