cover image Crash Tack: A Miami Jones Case

Crash Tack: A Miami Jones Case

A.J. Stewart. Jacaranda Drive, $14.99 trade paper (370p) ISBN 978-0-9859455-9-6

Stewart’s assured fifth mystery featuring Florida PI Miami Jones (after 2015’s Dead Fast) combines a nuanced lead with a challenging whodunit. Miami, a small-time professional baseball player turned investigator, has a personal stake in his latest case. Ron Bennett, who works with Miami and his mentor, Lenny Cox, in West Palm Beach, has become a person of interest after Will Colfax, who was in the import-export business, disappeared from his yacht in the middle of the ocean. While Ron wasn’t the only passenger, that Colfax was allegedly having an affair with Ron’s wife makes the police suspect that Ron pushed his romantic rival overboard. Their suspicions of foul play are bolstered by the discovery of traces of blood and cerebrospinal fluid on the deck. Miami and Lenny focus on identifying possible motives for murder of the other passengers, who include a newspaper ad executive, an architect, and a car dealer. Stewart provides enough twists, all credible, to keep readers turning the pages. [em](BookLife) [/em]