Don Bruns, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-30490-4
Set in Jamaica and Florida and steeped in the lore of rock and roll, pot, Rastafarianism and reggae rap, Bruns's first novel, alas, provides only moderate mystery entertainment. Mick Sever, a renowned rock critic and author of a bestselling book
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Don Bruns, Author . Oceanview $24.95 (271p) ISBN 978-1-933515-02-1
Bruns substitutes exotic locale for suspense in his lukewarm third beach-based mystery (after 2003's Barbados Heat
) featuring music journalist Mick Sever. Based in Chicago, Mick heads to Miami when he hears from his ex-wife, Ginny, that her...
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Don Bruns, Author . Oceanview $24.95 (267p) ISBN 978-1-933515-12-0
In Bruns’s mildly diverting fourth mystery to feature rock journalist Mick Sever (after 2006’s South Beach Shakedown
), Sever flies to a Caribbean island known as a haven for the rich and famous to interview Danny Murtz, a highly...
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Don Bruns, Author . Oceanview $24.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-933515-16-8
At the start of Bruns's talky second mystery to feature best friends Skip Moore and James Lessor (after 2007's Stuff to Die For
), the pair decide to make a buck by serving food to the attendees of a tent revival at Oleta River Park near...
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Don Bruns, Author . Oceanview $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-933515-20-5
Bruns's laid-back fifth mystery to feature Mick Sever (after 2008's St. Bart's Breakdown
) takes the music journalist to Nassau, to cover the resurgence of the legendary Highland Recording Studios, which burned down more than a year...
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Don Bruns, Author . Oceanview $25.95 (305p) ISBN 978-1-933515-22-9
Skip Moore and James Lessor pursue a new career as spies in Bruns's wacky third novel to feature the bumbling South Florida sleuths (after 2008's Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
). When Sarah Crumbly, an old high school friend, approaches Skip...
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Don Bruns, Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $25.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-933515-79-3
Roommates Skip Moore and James Lessor of More or Less Investigations receive PI licenses from the Florida Department of Agriculture ("Don't ask why.... This is Florida. They just do things a little differently here") in Bruns's diverting if...
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Don Bruns, Author Oceanview Publishing $24.95 (283p) ISBN 978-1-933515-10-6
Set in South Florida, this middling thriller from Bruns (Barbados Heat) never quite manages to persuade the reader to buy into its concept. Best friends Skip Moore and James Lessor have partnered in various hare-brained schemes since grade school,...
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Don Bruns, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-312-30492-8
As in Bruns's mystery debut, Jamaica Blue (2002), music journalist Mick Sever doesn't so much detect as just survive in this unconvincing tale of sex and murder with a Caribbean flavor. Robert Shapply, a born-again congressman, has turned over a
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Don Bruns. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $25.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-60809-061-7
Bruns’s lukewarm sixth semicomic “Stuff” mystery (after 2011’s Too Much Stuff) finds inexperienced and immature Miami PIs James Lessor and Skip Moore of “Moore or Less Investigations” going undercover to solve the stabbing murder of sous chef Amanda
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Don Bruns. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $26.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-60809-096-9
In Bruns’s lackluster seventh Stuff mystery (after 2012’s Hot Stuff), Skip Moore and James Lessor, the less-than-professional PIs from Moore or Less Investigations, land jobs guarding the filming of an episode of TV’s Deadline Miami, despite their...
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Don Bruns. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8636-1
This clunky series opener from Bruns (Reel Stuff and six other Stuff mysteries) introduces New Orleans homicide detective Quinton Archer. When David Lerner, a controversial juvenile court judge, is kidnapped and killed, his murder is priority one...
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Don Bruns. Severn, $28.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8693-4
Bruns brings the chaotic frenzy of Mardi Gras to life in his second novel featuring New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer (after 2016’s Casting Bones). Spray canisters of Chill, a gas that instantly cools down bottles of wine as well as...
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Don Bruns. Severn, $28.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8756-6
At the start of Bruns’s richly nuanced third novel featuring New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer (after 2017’s Thrill Kill), Nick Martin, a 29-year-old truck driver, dies in 1992 when he drives off a road to avoid a head-on collision with...
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