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Palm Beach Nasty

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Burned out New York homicide cop Charlie Crawford goes south to take it slow and ends up in steamy Palm Beach, Florida. But after six months of pink and green collar crime, he's bored out of his mind and desperate for a face-down stiff with a little rigor setting in. Palm Beach has plenty of glitz, glam and hedonism, but murder—not a one in the last ten years. Finally one Halloween night, Crawford is first on the scene and finds a twenty-year-old male swinging from a stately banyan tree. This sets in motion colliding plots involving a billionaire with a thing for young girls, a far-reaching art scam with Crawford's girlfriend playing a starring role, and a ruthless hustler passing himself off as the long lost son of one of the richest men in town. Add to the mix a sultry real estate broker who knows where all the bodies are buried, a gorgeous forensic cop usually one step ahead of Crawford, a Mutt and Jeff combo of stone cold killers and you've got Palm Beach Nasty. Fast-moving, funny, slightly off kilter and everything you ever wanted to know about the most scandalous town in America and its larger-than-life citizens.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 10, 2014
      Turner’s entertaining debut introduces Charlie Crawford, a celebrated New York homicide detective who’s traded big-city excitement for the slow pace of the Palm Beach, Fla., police department. When 19-year-old smalltime crook Darryl Bill is found hanged from a banyan tree, Crawford quickly focuses on Ward Jaynes, a billionaire playboy caught in compromising photos with Darryl’s underage sister, Misty. Taunted by Jaynes and warned off by a police chief concerned about alienating a wealthy taxpayer, Crawford and his go-with-the-flow partner, Ott, enlist Misty and crime-scene tech Dominica McCarthy to ensnare the suspect. Crawford, an Ivy League graduate who once dated a famous actress in New York, isn’t always plausible as a hard-bitten homicide detective, and his unfailing ability to anticipate his foes costs the novel some suspense. Still, Turner’s Palm Beach—a blend of desperate criminals, social climbers, merciless billionaires, and surprising heroes—is a pleasant enough place to pass a few hours, and readers will warm to secondary characters like Dominica and the plucky Misty.

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