All four of John Leslie's Gideon Lowry/Key West mysteries, originally published in DTB in the 1990's, are US Kindle Countdown deals right now. They are $2.99, down from $3.99 for about a day more. It's about 8:30 am on August 30, US Pacific time.
I remember reading and enjoying this series in DTB. Sort of like my post just above, nothing to totally rave about, but solid and enjoyable.
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Killing Me Softly:
http://www.amazon.com/KILLING-SOFTLY...dp/B00HL15RWW/
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When he’s not bird-dogging AWOL witnesses for the state attorney’s office, Key West private eye, Gideon Lowry, can be found tickling the ivories in a local bar. That’s where Virginia Murphy finds him. Shrouded in somber white, she’s come back to Key West to lay a real ghost to rest – by finding out who murdered her sister, Lila, nearly forty years before. For Gideon, it’s a gig that leads him down the darker side of memory lane – where haunting snatches of his own past, like the timeless melodies he plays, linger on. Secrets linger there, too. But they’re buried as deeply as the paradise that was Florida’s landscape, now entombed beneath the concrete of Bayard Cement. The ubiquitous family business – and the wealthy, influential clan behind it – are a wall that Gideon slams up against harder and harder as he investigates his hometown’s hidden history. Doors that were once left unlocked are swinging shut in Gideon’s face, and even his hotshot-senator brother can’t – or won’t – penetrate the closed ranks. It’s enough to drive a P.I. to drink…until Virginia Murphy topples to her own untimely death.
That’s when Gideon takes the pledge – to unlock the shocking truth that Key West has concealed too long beneath its sunny, sultry surface, and to face a killer’s music and dance…
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Night and Day:
http://www.amazon.com/NIGHT-Gideon-L...dp/B00HL127OI/
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Even Ernest himself would probably have fled Key West’s Hemingway Days celebration – a week of raucous tourists and swaggering Papa pretenders that sends the locals into hiding. Thus the low profile assumed by P.I. Gideon Lowry, playing his weekly piano gig at a waterfront hotel, fighting his daily urge for a drink. That’s where Asia – just Asia, like Madonna – finds him. Beret–clad, with lips the color of a plum, she glides into Gideon’s world on the breathless end of a classic tune. She’s left her aerie at MTV to find her estranged husband, who’s lost in the reverie surrounding his obsession: Hemingway. But Asia doesn’t want him back, she wants a divorce – and is ready to pay handsomely for it. For Gideon, locating Frank Maguire is the easiest thousand he’s ever made. Keeping the writer alive proves impossible. As the festival builds to its crescendo, mainland violence pays another nasty visit. There’s an evil dancing behind the carefree facades of Duval Street, and it will take every sun-bitten ounce of Gideon’s Conch resolve to reel it in…
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Love for Sale:
http://www.amazon.com/LOVE-SALE-Gide...dp/B00HL2I0DY/
Blue Moon:
http://www.amazon.com/BLUE-MOON-Gide...dp/B00HKK7LIW/
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P.I. Gideon “Bud” Lowry has been known to play Cole Porter tunes during his late-night piano gigs, but lately he’s had reason to finger some melancholy melodies. Besides a suspicious fire near his Duval Street home, Gideon’s old flame, successful restaurateur Gabriella Wade, is getting married. Years ago, Gideon and Gaby were a hot item, before her true love – her Blue Moon restaurant – monopolized her time. But now her wheeler-dealer fiance, Roy Emerson, is refusing to take a simple medical test and she wants Gideon to find out why.
Fired up by his misfortunes and a strong desire to protect Gaby, Gideon begins an investigation into Roy’s background that stretches from Key West to the Wild West – Wyoming. And the results are explosive. But before Gideon can open Gaby’s love-blind eyes, she and Roy elope, and disappear. With throngs of tourists descending upon Key West for the annual Halloween parade, Gideon is one native Conch who isn’t masking his fears – because if he doesn’t find Gaby soon, he’ll be left standing alone at the Blue Moon forever.
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