Description:

Private eye Alton Rhode has been asked to give away the bride at a “destination wedding” on remote Bald Head Island. It is a weird situation, given the fact that the bride once worked for people trying to kill him!

But Rhode decides to make the best of it. He and his lady love, the beautiful Alice Watts, turn the occasion into a week-long vacation at the exclusive resort off the coast of North Carolina.

Taking a break from the wedding festivities, Alton and Alice attend a luncheon honoring the island’s most-famous resident, the elderly and reclusive Ashleigh Harper, whose first and only novel is a touchstone of American literature, having inspired a generation of America’s youth with its ecological message.That is when things really become weird!

Rhode is soon involved in a plot that will stun the literary world.The bodies pile up on peaceful Bald Head, where the only previous murder occurred almost five centuries earlier! And before he solves the case, Rhode finds himself the target of a cold-blooded temptress and her maniac lover, who feeds his victims to sharks!

With scenes shifting from Wall Street to Cape Fear, “Turtle Dove” is a typical De Maria blend of mayhem and humor, with a dollop of sex thrown into the mix.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

LAWRENCE DE MARIA'S THRILLERS AND MYSTERIES HAVE "A TOUCH OF BOURNE, A DASH OF BOND AND A SPRIG OF SPENSER". (John Crudele, the New York Post)

“While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well.” (THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS)

“What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing.” (THE COLLIER CITIZEN)

De Maria is “a master of thriller dialogue.” (THE WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Winner of an Associated Press award for crime reporting, Lawrence De Maria is a Pulitzer-nominated journalist who cut his teeth on financial corruption at The New York Times and Forbes.

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