William Wells
Author
Series
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey is living his retirement dream in Fort Myers Beach, a little town on Florida's Southwest Gulf Coast, where he owns a bar called The Drunken Parrot and resides on a houseboat named Phoenix. Jack's friend, Chicago Tribune police reporter William Stevens, writes a series of best-selling crime novels based upon Jack's career and pays Jack to edit them to make certain all the cop stuff is right. But, every...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A serial killer is on the loose in Naples, Florida, an enclave of wealth and privilege on the Southwest Gulf Coast. At first, the murders have been disguised as accidents, but when Police Chief Wade Hansen becomes suspicious, Mayor Charles Beaumont orders him to apprehend the killer before the truth becomes public knowledge. Hansen reaches out to retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey. Starkey, who has been shot three times: twice on the...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Retired Chicago homicide detective Jack Starkey is living what he calls every cop's retirement dream by owning a successful bar, The Drunken Parrot, and residing on a houseboat in Fort Myers Beach on Florida's Southwest Gulf Coast. Mostly, it's been working out just fine. Starkey's drink of choice these days is diet root beer and not the hard stuff that ended his marriage and sent him into rehab. He's dating the lovely Marisa Fernandez, who owns...