E. C. Ayres

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"His style and tone are as close to that of the beloved John D. MacDonald as anyone writing today."   BOOKLIST

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                                         Now Arrived:

     Lair of the Lizard  

   the fourth Tony Lowell Mystery

      (from St. Martin's Press)

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            Coming soon: Red Tide

                   an eco-thriller 

                 (not yet scheduled)                                                         

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When a female Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Officer is murdered in Big Cypress Swamp, Police Detective Lena Bedrosian takes it very hard. And very personally. The dead woman was her cousin, Marge Pappas. It doesn't improve her mood any when Lena is forced to call on her sometimes friend and rival Tony Lowell for help, after she is removed from the case. Photographer/Boat bum/Private Investigator Tony Lowell is already having women troubles of his own, but he agrees to do what he can. And it doesn't take long for him to regret it.

Assisted by his Creek Indian friend Perry Garwood, Lowell is soon up to his pony tail in a steaming quagmire of swamp dwellers and swamp politics, with connections that reach all the way north to Tallahassee. In addition to an impending big freeze threatening the winter citrus crop, Lowell discovers ten thousand acres of state-owned land and every constitutional right the local gun lobby can drum up are at stake-- along with yet another endangered species. Lowell knows things have really gotten out of hand, however, when first he, then Lt. Bedrosian herself become the quarry in a deadly earnest manhunt...

Private Investigator Tony Lowell finds himself up against not only the political powers-that-be, but also a local militia group in this, the third in the Tony Lowell Mystery series, from St. Martin's Press.            

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Thought Bytes:

• It has often been noted that the best fiction is founded in truth. However, one can't help but observe that today's arbiters of truth are often the very ones who generate the most fiction!         

• Have you noticed, in politics, that free speech is an oxymoron?

• Have you ever noticed that the same people who insist on carrying a firearm for "protection" wouldn't think of wearing a seat belt?    

Click below to preview other books by E.C. Ayres:                                            

                                          Hour of the Manatee

 Eye of the Gator

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