In Black Coral, master magician and prolific novelist Andrew Mayne’s second thriller of his Sloan McPherson series—Mayne’s take-no-prisoners detective, a diver with her police force’s newly formed Underwater Investigation Unit—stumbles across a submerged car in an alligator-infested canal.
It turns out that the bodies inside belong four to missing persons—teenagers presumed runaways. This decades-long cold case is just one piece in a string of similar vanishings—and if Sloan’s team is correct, the work of a serial killer hiding in plain sight.
But Sloan will do anything to catch him—even if it means being his perfect victim.
Andrew and I discuss how Sloan’s unorthodox past makes her an unlikely albeit a successful detective; and how he channels his Florida childhood to create stories about the secrets that lie beneath the water’s edge. We also talk about his own ties to law enforcement; and how his profession as a master illusionist has helped form his approach for writing tight, taut suspenseful novels.
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Meredith Schorr - SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU
Jane Healey - GOODNIGHT FROM PARIS
Jane Smiley - A DANGEROUS BUSINESS
Michelle Cox - A SPYING EYE
Joy Jordan-Lake - A BEND OF LIGHT
Rhys Bowen - WHERE THE SKY BEGINS
Lee Goldberg - MOVIELAND
Meredith Schorr - AS SEEN ON TV
Samantha M. Bailey - WATCH OUT FOR HER
Lisa Barr - WOMAN ON FIRE
Rea Frey - SECRETS OF OUR HOUSE
Kaira Rouda - SOMEBODY’S HOME
Yasmin Angoe - HER NAME IS KNIGHT
Lee Goldberg - GATED PREY
Hank Phillippi Ryan - HER PERFECT LIFE
Liza Nash Taylor - IN ALL GOOD FAITH
Kristin Contino - A HOUSE FULL OF WINDSOR
Tess Gerritsen, Gary Braver - CHOOSE ME
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