Killing Me Softly

by John Leslie

Genres: General Fiction

Synopsis

When he’s not bird-dogging AWOL witnesses for the state attorney’s office, Key West private eye, Gideon Lowry, can be found tickling the ivories in a local bar. That’s where Virginia Murphy finds him. Shrouded in somber white, she’s come back to Key West to lay a real ghost to rest – by finding out who murdered her sister, Lila, nearly forty years before. For Gideon, it’s a gig that leads him down the darker side of memory lane – where haunting snatches of his own past, like the timeless melodies he plays, linger on. Secrets linger there, too. But they’re buried as deeply as the paradise that was Florida’s landscape, now entombed beneath the concrete of Bayard Cement. The ubiquitous family business – and the wealthy, influential clan behind it – are a wall that Gideon slams up against harder and harder as he investigates his hometown’s hidden history. Doors that were once left unlocked are swinging shut in Gideon’s face, and even his hotshot-senator brother can’t – or won’t – penetrate the closed ranks. It’s enough to drive a P.I. to drink…until Virginia Murphy topples to her own untimely death. That’s when Gideon takes the pledge – to unlock the shocking truth that Key West has concealed too long beneath its sunny, sultry surface, and to face a killer’s music and dance…

Release date: December 28, 2013

Publisher: Atria Books

Print pages: 256