Bones of Coral by James W. Hall

Bones of Coral
by James W. Hall
Paperback

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• Weekly Shaw Chandler, a 30-something paramedic with the Miami fire department,
• returns to his home in the Keys to come to terms with the suspicious circumstances
• of his father's suicide.
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• Meanwhile Trula Montoya, his high school sweetheart and once a Manhattan soap
• opera star, has also returned--to decide what to do with the rest of a life blighted by
• the onset of MS.
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• Shaw and Trula eventually realize a link between local deaths--of the natural and
• unnatural varieties--and are drawn deeply into danger as they begin to unravel
• biological warfare, a cover-up and a double murder involving both of their fathers
• 20 years before.
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• The dynamic and romantic duo are truly nice people (and well-drawn characters)
• who deserve a happy ending, but the rest of Hall's ( Tropical Freeze ) cast is an
• unsavory bunch: not only does Douglas Barnes, still reaping the financial rewards
• from his part in the evil business, kill with cruel pleasure, but his deranged,
• foul-mouthed son Dougie tries to win his respect by acting as his hatchet man.
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• By the time the homicidal pair receives its just deserts--in a fast-paced life-and-death
• struggle in a garbage disposal factory--the body count is as high as the surf.