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Green Water
Ghost
is the sixth in the Luanne Fogarty series of spine-tingling swamp noir
mysteries set in the springs and underwater caves of northern Florida where
Luanne, a linguistics professor, serves as adjunct scuba diver for the
sheriff’s department.
It’s Halloween in the north Florida woods and Luanne Fogarty finds brand-new
bones along with the old in an abandoned slave graveyard. An antebellum
discord simmers into the present day and Luanne’s college students are up to
ghoulish tricks. She dives in slime-covered ponds and navigates folk
legends with the help of forensics. The Southern past rarely stays buried
long in the swamp.
"Glynn Marsh Alam presents a side of Florida
few tourists see: a dark place where everyone has secrets. The physical
picture she paints is so realistic, readers’ hair will frizz up or go limp
in the humidity, and they’ll get a creepy-crawly feeling from her
description of the creatures that inhabit the area. Luanne Fogarty is a
great heroine… gutsy with a soft side… and the secondary characters most
intriguing,. I particularly liked Pasquin, Luanne’s neighbor, who wants her
to hurry up and marry Vernon, her current love interest and fellow diver."
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Diana Vickery, Mystery Scene
“Gators, bottomless caves, mucky sinkholes, blood-sucking mosquitoes and
drippy humidity come together in a Florida swamp to provide the perfect
eerie elements for murder…. The story lines flow like the Palmetto River,
which hides another world beneath its smooth surface.”
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Dawn Goldsmith
“Inventive, stylish…manages to bring to life yet another part of Florida’s
seemingly endless killing grounds: the deep and cold freshwater springs of
the northern part of the state….”
— Dick Adler, The Chicago Tribune
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