NIGHT AND DAY

by John Leslie

Genres: General Fiction

Synopsis

Even Ernest himself would probably have fled Key West’s Hemingway Days celebration – a week of raucous tourists and swaggering Papa pretenders that sends the locals into hiding. Thus the low profile assumed by P.I. Gideon Lowry, playing his weekly piano gig at a waterfront hotel, fighting his daily urge for a drink. That’s where Asia – just Asia, like Madonna – finds him. Beret–clad, with lips the color of a plum, she glides into Gideon’s world on the breathless end of a classic tune. She’s left her aerie at MTV to find her estranged husband, who’s lost in the reverie surrounding his obsession: Hemingway. But Asia doesn’t want him back, she wants a divorce – and is ready to pay handsomely for it. For Gideon, locating Frank Maguire is the easiest thousand he’s ever made. Keeping the writer alive proves impossible. As the festival builds to its crescendo, mainland violence pays another nasty visit. There’s an evil dancing behind the carefree facades of Duval Street, and it will take every sun-bitten ounce of Gideon’s Conch resolve to reel it in…

Release date: December 28, 2013

Publisher: Gallery Books

Print pages: 256