It is home to a paper mill, which employs most of the men of the area. Inland, there is a little farming, and a few people still make their living fishing for mullet or taking oysters from the shallow bay. It is the county seat of Ware county. With a population of under twenty thousand, it is the...
Frank Cartwright said. “Got turned into subdivisions. Now a lot of those houses are in foreclosure and the neighborhoods are going to hell.” He was garrulous in the way of old men. He hadn’t stopped talking since Jock and I arrived at the double-wide trailer where he lived with his three dogs. He...
A noise of some sort. Without thinking about it, I had slipped into the sleep of the soldier, a guarded slumber, a part of the sleeping brain alert for danger, for sounds in the night, ready to spring into action with the first perception of threat. I couldn’t identify the sound at first, but it ...
headed to Bradenton to the sheriff’s forensics lab. She was hoping to get some information on the stolen car found parked across the street from the Seafood Shack. It was so close to where the boat had been stolen, that it seemed reasonable to assume that whoever had taken the boat had also stole...
I called him at the police department and arranged to meet him for lunch at the Mar Vista, a restaurant clinging to the shore in the Village on the north end of the key. I asked Logan to join us. He was my sounding board, and I wanted him to hear as much as he could firsthand. When I walked out o...