Reduced Circumstances
Subtitle: A Frank Cole Mystery (Frank Cole Mysteries)
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Published: July 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312369668
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Mystery And Suspense Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; Mystery & Detective - General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Florida; Mystery fiction
First sentence: I first learned of the kid when we were swabbing out the taxis.
Description: Booklist Review: Once upon a time, Frank Cole was the happily married owner of a thriving software firm. But when business and marriage both went under, he landed in the Florida panhandle town of Exile, cobbling together a living as a fact checker for lawyers and a dispatcher for the Midnight Taxi Service. One night a driver picks up a fare from a local fleabag motel just before the cops bust a salesman with a truck full of dope. Frank puts his own detective skills to work and learns that the fare was a petty con man whose parents were sophisticated financial swindlers. Soon Frank is sucked into the vortex of a case in which his own life may be at risk. The second Frank Cole mystery builds on the series' critically acclaimed debut, Murder in Exile (2006), with a credible plot, a sympathetic protagonist, and an array of eccentric secondary characters. This has the earmarks of a series that could be around a long time; better get in on the fun at the beginning. Lukowsky, Wes