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All around good guy Rusty MacMillan just wants to fish and play poker with his buddies, but things keep happening. Drug smuggling, stock car racing, gator poaching, romance, murder -- Rusty's Florida fishing village of Crescent Beach has got it all. Certainly as capable as John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee, rugged Rusty reluctanly takes care of business.
CRESCENT BEACH Book One in the Crescent Beach Series
Cardboard-wrapped, forty-pound bales of marijuana called square grouper are flooding Florida's Gulf Coast. Undercover State Trooper Rusty McMillan is sent into the backwater fishing village of Crescent Beach to bust a key operator and stem the area's rampant smuggling. Expecting to deal with trailer trash, Rusty instead discovers a hardworking community from an earlier era. He becomes immersed in the everyday life of shrimping, crabbing, and fishing, while at night he drinks beer, arm wrestles, and plays poker with the locals who become his friends. Rusty gets the evidence he needs, but can he make the arrest? Either way he's a traitor: to his job or to the community. But before he can decide, the town is slammed by unexpected hurricane force winds and a lethal twelve-foot tidal surge. Rusty joins the men, women, and children in the life and death struggle with a ferocious storm that plays no favorites.
Cardboard-wrapped, forty-pound bales of marijuana called square grouper are flooding Florida's Gulf Coast. Undercover State Trooper Rusty McMillan is sent into the backwater fishing village of Crescent Beach to bust a key operator and stem the area's rampant smuggling. Expecting to deal with trailer trash, Rusty instead discovers a hardworking community from an earlier era. He becomes immersed in the everyday life of shrimping, crabbing, and fishing, while at night he drinks beer, arm wrestles, and plays poker with the locals who become his friends. Rusty gets the evidence he needs, but can he make the arrest? Either way he's a traitor: to his job or to the community. But before he can decide, the town is slammed by unexpected hurricane force winds and a lethal twelve-foot tidal surge. Rusty joins the men, women, and children in the life and death struggle with a ferocious storm that plays no favorites.
RAW DAWGIN' Book Two in the Crescent Beach Series)
Retired state trooper Rusty McMillan moves to Crescent Beach where the sports fishermen now outnumber the commercial fishermen two to one and they’re at each other’s throats. The sexy bar owner’s ex has gotten out of prison and has come looking for her. Scallop shucking determines a Festival Queen while a modern day Tortoise & Hare race captivates the town. A body is discovered and a Colombian drug cartel seeks vengeance. Add Rusty’s attraction to his best friend’s wife into the mix, and peaceful little Crescent Beach is anything but.
Retired state trooper Rusty McMillan moves to Crescent Beach where the sports fishermen now outnumber the commercial fishermen two to one and they’re at each other’s throats. The sexy bar owner’s ex has gotten out of prison and has come looking for her. Scallop shucking determines a Festival Queen while a modern day Tortoise & Hare race captivates the town. A body is discovered and a Colombian drug cartel seeks vengeance. Add Rusty’s attraction to his best friend’s wife into the mix, and peaceful little Crescent Beach is anything but.
THE BILOXI CONNECTION Book Three in the Crescent Beach Series
Retired state trooper Rusty McMillan pursues Joe Slater, the cold-blooded hit man and drug runner for a Colombian cartel who murdered Rusty’s best friend. When Slater delivers three hundred bricks of cocaine to a Biloxi, Mississippi, casino, Rusty and the FBI are ready. But the sting goes awry and Slater gets away in the confusion of a deadly firefight. Slater is eventually arrested, but he comes up with a clever alibi. Will justice be served? Maybe, but it won’t be in the courts.
Retired state trooper Rusty McMillan pursues Joe Slater, the cold-blooded hit man and drug runner for a Colombian cartel who murdered Rusty’s best friend. When Slater delivers three hundred bricks of cocaine to a Biloxi, Mississippi, casino, Rusty and the FBI are ready. But the sting goes awry and Slater gets away in the confusion of a deadly firefight. Slater is eventually arrested, but he comes up with a clever alibi. Will justice be served? Maybe, but it won’t be in the courts.
GATOR BAIT Book Four in the Crescent Beach Series)
Retired state trooper Rusty McMillan's marriage plans are put on hold when his fiancé’s game warden uncle is murdered by a gator poacher. Rusty is recruited by the state police to find the culprit. Posing as a low life poacher named Ace, Rusty meets bad guy Butch in a bar and together they begin illegally hunting alligators and collecting their eggs. Rusty correctly suspects that Butch is the game warden's murderer, but needs proof. When Butch learns Rusty’s true identity, however, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Retired state trooper Rusty McMillan's marriage plans are put on hold when his fiancé’s game warden uncle is murdered by a gator poacher. Rusty is recruited by the state police to find the culprit. Posing as a low life poacher named Ace, Rusty meets bad guy Butch in a bar and together they begin illegally hunting alligators and collecting their eggs. Rusty correctly suspects that Butch is the game warden's murderer, but needs proof. When Butch learns Rusty’s true identity, however, the hunter becomes the hunted.
People are not always who they seem. Who would think that Louie, the mild-mannered manager of the
Crescent Beach marina, had been a big player in a Boston drug smuggling ring? When his past catches
up to him, his life is turned upside down.
Rebecca, the stunning darling of Crescent Beach, has earned a full shcolarship to Florida State University
Her worst nightmare is realized when the drug dealer from her freshman year in high school resurfaces.
If word gets out that she stole money and traded her body to a black man for drugs, her life and everything
she has worked so hard for will be shattered.
LOUIE is the fifth novel of the Crescent Beach Series. Most of the action takes place in and around the
fishing village of Crescent Beach in the Big Bend Area of north Florida, although Boston, New Hampshire,
Honduras, and the San Blas Islands off Panama are visited. The fishing village's usual cast of characters
provides humor, color, and a glimpse into the old Florida way of life. Included is a wealth of Florida information
that varies from worm grunting in Sopchoppy to the state-of-the art navagational system for the Port of Tampa.
Crescent Beach marina, had been a big player in a Boston drug smuggling ring? When his past catches
up to him, his life is turned upside down.
Rebecca, the stunning darling of Crescent Beach, has earned a full shcolarship to Florida State University
Her worst nightmare is realized when the drug dealer from her freshman year in high school resurfaces.
If word gets out that she stole money and traded her body to a black man for drugs, her life and everything
she has worked so hard for will be shattered.
LOUIE is the fifth novel of the Crescent Beach Series. Most of the action takes place in and around the
fishing village of Crescent Beach in the Big Bend Area of north Florida, although Boston, New Hampshire,
Honduras, and the San Blas Islands off Panama are visited. The fishing village's usual cast of characters
provides humor, color, and a glimpse into the old Florida way of life. Included is a wealth of Florida information
that varies from worm grunting in Sopchoppy to the state-of-the art navagational system for the Port of Tampa.
