'Brilliantly suspenseful … Hall raises mystery writing to its rightful place of honor alongside the best of American fiction.'—San Francisco Chronicle

 

A Key West thriller featuring the creepiest, funniest bad guy ever. Dougie Barnes has no pain threshold and he loves a good rhyme. Paramedic Shaw Chandler knows Miami's nitty-gritty all too well. But when a routine suicide call uncovers his long-lost father, it's anything but routine—and it appears it's anything but suicide. Then Shaw's mother falls victim to financial fraud, leaving Shaw with no choice but to return home to Key West—and into the arms of his old flame soap opera actress Trula Montoya. Trula's got her own skeletons and reasons for returning to Key West. Rekindling her relationship to Shaw can only complicate her life. But Trula and Shaw are about to learn that they can no longer run from their secrets or the past as they discover a lethal conspiracy and science run amok. And when a psychotic, rhyming killer is added to the mix, they must stop an evil that could spell doom to all.

 

Based on startling and true revelations of U.S. Military misconduct and the resulting harm done to longtime residents of Key West, Bones of Coral, was optioned by MGM with an Academy Award–winning director attached to the project. The novel became a national bestseller.