num_pages: 295
description: Although he prefers magazine work, freelance photographer Alex Rutledge won't turn down an occasional crime scene shoot for the City of Key West Police Department. But when a string of murders takes his viewfinder into strangely familiar territory, Alex's mellow island lifestyle shatters. One after another, someone is killing women who have intimately crossed Alex Rutledge's path. Maybe it's a coincidence. Maybe it's a conspiracy. Or maybe he's crazy. But the connection marks Alex as the prime suspect in a case so hot it's drawn in the county sheriff, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. In a desperate race to save his name and his life, Alex dives into a one-man search for the dark, sweltering truth beneath a case that's pounding toward meltdown. 
language: English
title: The Mango Opera
titlecomplete: The Mango Opera (Alex Rutledge Mystery #1)
characters: Alex Rutledge
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 817
series: An Alex Rutledge Mystery
publisher: Minotaur Books