Evil in Paradise
 

I was curious so I just went to Amazon.com's Kindle Store......
yes indeed, it is set in THE VILLAGES, Florida

........sounds like the author resides in TV??????

Book Description

Publication Date: March 28, 2012
Cathy Roberts has it all—an exciting life in a fabulous retirement community, a beautiful home, an expensive automobile, a doting husband, and five wonderful grandchildren. But it isn’t enough for the attractive, well-spoken Cathy. Filled with an insatiable desire for self-gratification, she wants more. Then, as fate would have it, she meets a handsome and single ex-truck driver, Eric Lowe, and the sparks begin to fly. Captivated by the exciting and much younger Lowe, she wants to spend the rest of her life with him, free from the constraints of her marriage. During a chance meeting with a troubled Harley rider at a local bar, Cathy finds her ticket to freedom. The resulting story takes the reader on a gripping journey filled with broken promises, forbidden liaisons, violent confrontations, and finally, murder.

About the Author:
In his fifth novel, R B Conroy uses the setting of his winter home in central Florida to create yet another murder-mystery thriller. The Villages, Florida, a diverse and exciting community, provides the backdrop for this spine tingling tale of greed, deception, and murder. As this book goes to print, Conroy is hard at work on the outline for his next exciting novel.
R B Conroy's other novels include: Devil Rising, Return of the Gun, In My Father's Image and Deadly Game.

P.S. I forgot to mention I did download the book onto my Kindle........can always return it if it's not interesting.

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Cody's Original Roadhouse on cover.

I saw that and was wondering if it's a real place in TV.
I don't recall it from our last visit.

I really like the UK's The Book Depository for finding books to buy. Advanced book search at The Book Depository

I did a search on R.B. Conroy.

I mainly use the Book Depository for Simon Scarrow books. These are kind of hard to find in libraries in the US because he is a UK writer who writes about the adventures of a pair of 1st Century AD Roman legionnaires Macro and Cato. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Series

Up the Creek used to be where Cody's Original RoadHouse now is.

here's an excerpt:
http://www.o*****bn.com/preview/9781927360354/

sounds like a good read. how is it??

Frankly I feel exploited:1rotfl:

I believe one of our members here on TOTV is an author but I forgot his name..::loco:

Well, to be perfectly truthful, so far I'm not impressed.

Yes, it is set in The Villages, Florida and all the familiar roads and places are mentioned.

The first chapter was so poorly written, at first I thought I had downloaded the wrong book..........but that was describing the woman back in her childhood days..........

Next it got into golfers on the golf course, etc., their wives, etc......
I'm up to where she is realizing where she can meet her tennis partner which just happens to be in some "snowbirds" empty home (as she has the remote entry key, etc.)

I'll bear with it for awhile. Sure hope the author DOES NOT live in TV.
Not all the books at the Amazon.com kindle store are great.....but I was curious. One great thing about amazon though, is that if you do not like a book and just cannot get "into it"....you can return it for a full refund, within a certain amount of time.

I'm hoping "Evil in Paradise" will surprise me and get better as it moves along. I thought "Leisureville" was more interesting to read; he was a better writer.......for good or for ill..........

Yikes..........are you R. B. Conroy?

r. u. b. i. c. o. n.

Cody's is real, a great spot on the waterfront at Lake Sumter. They now have a large poster of this books cover on the wall near the entrance.

The Villages Daily Sun reporter Gary Corsair who has also written at least one book used to post on TOTV. Have not seen him on TOTV for a while though.

He came on asking for our experiences with Big Foot a few years back.

I got on my tinfoil hat and wrote him back. :D Just kiddin.

Interesting as to who he might be......

I'm surprised that no one else is reading Evil in Paradise, considering all the hoopla surrounding Leisureville when it was first published..........

I'm only up to 20% on my Kindle, but not to hurt anyone's feelings.....it's just not that good. I purchased it based on someone elses recommendation.

Think I'll go back to Russka: The Novel of Russia by Edward Rutherfurd.
Book Description

Publication Date: August 24, 2011
"Impressive."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, author of the phenomenally successful SARUM: THE NOVEL OF ENGLAND, tells a grand saga that is as multifaceted as Russia itself. Here is a story of a great civilization made human, played out through the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of their land.
"Rutherford's RUSSKA succeeds....[He] can take his place among an elite cadre of chroniclers such as Harold Lamb, Maurice Hindus and Henri Troyat."

Yes, Sarum was also excellent. Now, he is a great author.
Edward Rutherfurd.

Sorry, but just can't get into the book you loved re THE VILLAGES.

I'm up to the part where the drywall guy's girlfriend is chatting with someone. They mention the town of Oxford, which I do recall.....

It's almost like it was written for the teenaged population.....

Maybe it does get better as one gets into the book....but so far, I'm not as impressed as you were with it.

We have friends who were born and raised in Great Britain.....

Read some of Edward Rutherfurd's books. He is good. Read his Sarum, London and New York.

Yes, he is. I really enjoyed "New York".....

I was getting a history refresher course without even realizing it....

Makes one appreciate all the people that came before us...........

If you recall the part in "New York" where the father takes his young son to see Niagra Falls............?

I thought of that part of the book when Nik Wallenda was walking across........this past June.......

It's a magnificent sight, no matter which era one happens to see it.........

I also learned a lot of the Dutch history......New Netherlands, etc.

I read Sarum, and then we visited England, and I was so excited to go to Salisbury. I remember being astounded that the carved faces were right up there on the wall in the circular room in the cathedral -- just like in the book! I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, but you never know what's real and what's not in fiction. I enjoyed that book very much!

Also, Brit, if you have a Kindle you might want to check out eReaderIQ.com for books. They have many, many free books that are available worldwide.

Yes, thank you.....as I've gotten into this book, I see that a lot of the individual villages are named.......I recall driving through them......

Whomever did write this book, set in THE VILLAGES FLORIDA, did their background work.

"Cathy" has now arranged for a Harley motorcycle mechanic to kill her husband for $100,000 (spoiler alert)......so she can be with her tennis hunk. She's 67; he's in his early 50's I think......I didn't bookmark it on my Kindle..........(she met this down on his luck rough and tumble Harley mechanic at the bar).

I'm back to reading it now as it's becoming comical.............

Apparently she learned something from the Casey Anthony case (re not using your cell phone as they can trace the pings)........

She's told the "hit man" that she will meet him at that big "flea market" and pass to him cash up front plus directions on how she wants it done....the murder..........in a folded up "shopping bag"........hanging other instructions on a bulletin board at a local store.

Unbeknownst to her......THE NEIGHBORS have observed her black Lexus going in and out of the *empty house in the Village of Duval........she even gave directions in the book.............how to get there..........anyway, they are getting suspicious as is her husband..........

*empty house belong to snowbirds who have her look in on it every now and then.........

A newcomer to TV is an ex police investigator.........I'm sure he'll get involved........it seems everyone knows someone...........

I did stick with it and am 76%, according to the Kindle....through the book "Evil in Paradise". It is becoming a page turner as the Harley mechanic dresses like a "Villager" in Bermuda shorts or whatever, to ride his bicycle in to where the mailboxes are....to kill the husband.........having been hired by the wife (and in need of money to save his business which could go into foreclosure)........

Again, it is not the great American novel.........but, I'm sticking with it.
I have a feeling he will not kill the husband.

The ex N.Y. detective is suspicious, yet somehow believes his story......
of why he was lurking in the bushes............

Guess this book was a bit of a topic for a while inTV so, yes, I loaded on to my Kindle. For $6, I thought I could't lose. Yes, I am lumbering through but eventually I'll finish it. When I return to TV, I'll be looking around for real TV personalities who might resemble the novel. Know of any one? On the side, I recently got interest in a Russian mystery writer, Boris Akunin. Apparently he is very famous there. I've read The Winter Queen, The Turkish Gambit, Murder on the Leviathan and now reading The Death of Achilles.

I think I will just stick with the New York best sellers list.

I just finished reading Evil in Paradise. While the book reminded me of a movie on Lifetime, I was curious about a couple of things. Did anyone pick up when the book talked about Cathy going 'upstairs' to her bedroom? Other than the townhouse style homes in TV I don't think any of them have an 'upstairs' and I was given the impression that she lived in a premier home. The other thing that bothered me was when the biker guy went to Disneyworld with his sister and her kids, he talked about how the kids were bugging him for cotton candy or snowcones...he finally gave the child some money and he bought a treat from someone dressed in a costume. Now I don't know about you, but I have been to Disney many, many times and never once did I hear about snowcones or cotton candy and I have never been served anything by anyone dressed as a character. This sounds like a carnival or fair. I don't think the writer has ever been to Disney. Other than these silly things, I thought the book was mind candy, and I did enjoy being able to identify the places that were mentioned. Right now I am looking for a really good mystery..any suggestions? I like stuff like Mary Higgens Clark.

How exciting!
That will be my next book!

Thanks for the tip. I just ordered Evil in Paradisepaperback from Amazon (not for Kindle because I like the cover)
Gee, I guess Villagers could make him a best-selling author!

I would thank all of you for your comments on my novel, Evil in Paradise, both postive and not so positive. I love The Villages and wanted to create a story to hopefully entertain my friends here in our little "paradise". My book has sold well and the reviews have been mostly positive. It makes my wife and I feel good that so many have enjoyed my book, and although the story is spicey, it was always my intention to frame The Villages in a postivie light. Thanks again, and happy reading to you whatever your current read might be! R B Conroy

How cool that you live in TV! We will be moving down next year, so I will pick up your book and dream away.....

Read your book
 

My sister and I both read the book, It was great.... Keep writing.

It's just trash, you know, but entertaining because it's set in The Bubble

Thought it was a great travelogue for TV, but really stunk as a novel.

Have not read it yet, but that certainly sounds like an apt description from the other posts about it on this thread.

J.K. Rowling's new book The Casual Vacancy looks like it is a good novel. I have only read part of it so far as the Lake Library System puts one week limitations on high demand books. That's too little time if you have a lot going on in your life. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...rowling-review