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    Scavenger Reef
    Scavenger Reef
    Scavenger Reef
    Audiobook9 hours

    Scavenger Reef

    Written by Laurence Shames

    Narrated by Richard Ferrone

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    On best-seller lists all over the country with his witty cynicism and delightfully dark humor, Laurence Shames writes thrillers that his fans endearingly classify as great "Florida noir." In the tradition of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, he gives character to the inhabitants of Florida's steamy underbelly. Artist Augie Silver's friends are ostensibly grief-stricken when he drowns in a shipwreck off Scavenger Reef, but most of them are nervous because his body wasn't found. They have too much to gain by his death. Since his demise, the price of his art is skyrocketing. If Augie isn't dead, he soon will be, if his money-hungry "friends" get their way. Listeners will delight in Richard Ferrone's narrative expertise as he perfectly captures the tongue-in-cheek humor, compelling characters, and snappy dialogue that have become the author's trademark. The combination of humor and suspense is irresistible.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 2, 2011
    ISBN9781456125349
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    • 5/5
      Shames' characters are the story and he's got it down to a fine art. Actually art is in the center of this, his first novel. Augie Silver is an unpretentious, popular artist with a love of life. He had a habit of giving his art to his barfly chums in addition to selling enough to make a nice life for he and his wife. He's lost at sea and the value of his work looks like it will skyrocket. Now his down and out friends are smelling a better life themselves if they sell Augie's paintings. But, is Augie dead or not? If not, and they can find him, it would pay them handsomely to make him dead.
    • 4/5
      Scavenger Reef is more than a typical "Florida noir" mystery. In addition to a clever "whodunit?" plot, the requisite host of quirky characters, and plenty of colorful descriptions of hot weather and tropical vegetation, it explores bigger issues like the nature of friendship and the meaning of art. It gets you thinking about more than the next umbrella drink.