Florida Heat Wave: A Crime Fiction Anthology edited by Michael Lister

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Bibliographic Details

• Editor: Michael Lister
• Title: Florida Heat Wave: A Crime Fiction Anthology
• Publisher: ‎ Tyrus Books
• Publication Date: January 1, 2010
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 363 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1935562177
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1935562177
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.45 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.6 x 1.5 x 8.6 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. May show signs of minor discoloration on page edges). 
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Plastic Library Dust Jacket)

Synopsis:

Florida like hell, only hotter.

Florida Heat Wave, edited by Michael Lister, is a collection of crime stories set in the gun-shaped state by Florida’s foremost crime writers.

Oppressive.

Stifling.

Crazy-making.

The suffocating heat makes you do things, it seeps in through your pores and sucks the life out of you. Like the bloody smear of a swatted mosquito on sweat-soaked skin, violence erupts suddenly, but the damage it does lingers long after.

From the pine-tree lined rural highways of North Florida through the tourist traps of Central Florida to the tropical, international environs of SOBE, come stories of sun-faded noir, orange pulp served up freshly squeezed by the Sunshine State’s very best practitioners.

Stories from: James O. Born, James W. Hall, Lisa Unger, Alice Jackson, Jonathon King, Jim Pascoe, Carolyn Haines, Tom Corcoran, Raven McMillian, Mark Raymond Falk, Christine Kling, John Lutz, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Michael Lister, John Dufresne, Bob Morris, John Bond, and Mary Anna Evans.

About the Editor:

New York Times bestselling and award-winning crime novelist Michael Lister is a native Floridian best known for his acclaimed John Jordan “Blood” mystery thriller series. 

#1 New York Times Bestseller Michael Connelly says that “Michael Lister may be the author of the most unique series running in mystery fiction.” Publisher’s Weekly writes that “Lister gives fair clues for the surprise solution, thus combining a compelling account of his hero’s spiritual struggle with a top-notch whodunit.”

Michael grew up in North Florida near the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River in a small town world-famous for tupelo honey.

In the early 90s, Michael became the youngest chaplain within the Florida Department of Corrections. Then, for nearly a decade, he served as a contract, staff, and senior chaplain at three different facilities in the Panhandle of Florida.

This unique experience inspired his first novel, 1997’s critically acclaimed POWER IN THE BLOOD. Michael’s books take readers through the electronically locked gates of the chain-link fences, beneath the looping razor wire glinting in the sun, and into the strange world of Potter Correctional Institution, Florida’s most brutal maximum-security prison.

Michael is also an inspirational speaker and musician, who with his wife, has the band Bliss Street. 

Find out more at www.MichaelLister.com.