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A Land Remembered. Devil In The Grove will make you wonder why McCall's Tavern is named after a man like Sheriff McCall.

John D. McDonald short novels featuring Travis McGee, a salvage specialist that lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale and recovers wrongly appropriated “treasure” for the fee of 50% while attempting to provide justice for the wronged.

Thriller series’ by Steven Becker, Wayne Stinnett, Tom Turner and Randy Wayne White. Of course there are the much better known and award-winning authors, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Carl Hiaasen. There are literally hundreds of books set in Florida.

How about the classic 1960 book “Where The Boys Are”? Author Glendon Swarthout was a family friend of my parents in East Lansing, Michigan. I remember my mother taking me to a theater in Lansing to see it. Great memories.

Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings—author of The Yearling. Was made into a movie with Rip Torn and Mary Steenburgen. It's only an hour north of Fenney and for FL newbies you and tour the house and grounds where it was made. It's also near the town of Micanopy which is full of antique shops, quaint little place.

Love the Doc Ford books as well as Wayne Stinnett and Dawn Lee McKenna. No Florida list is complete without John D. McDonald and Travis McGee. Those books are getting harder and harder to find. I have read them all so many times. When I see one, I grab it and read it again.

Thank you. They sound great.

TOTALLY!!!
Couldn’t put this one down ‼️
‘A LAND REMEMBERED’

A fun series is Mango Bob nine in total by Bill H Myers . Also Logan Dodge series by Matthew Rief.

randy Wayne white. South Florida excitement

A Land Remembered. I just finished the audio from CHIRP, a wonderful app for audiobooks under $5.

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Originally Posted by queasy27 (Post 1820803)

I've been reading a couple of series set in Florida that are quite enjoyable. Electronic versions of both are free with Kindle Unlimited.

The Pineapple Port Mysteries by Amy Vansant. Eleven books so far. The protagonist is a young woman who was raised by her grandmother in a retirement community, and all her friends are seniors. It has a lighthearted and humorous tone -- the most recent book is set during a hurricane and someone is (perhaps) killing grocery store panic buyers and hoarders. And maybe even those danged snowbirds!

The other is The Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series by Dawn Lee McKenna. Ten books so far. The series is very atmospheric and immersive of the Gulf Coast and Florida in general. No sex or graphic violence. Features a female police lieutenant in a small town and is more of a character study than a twisty whodunnit. A recurring theme throughout the books is her cat and mouse interactions with a local crime boss.

McKenna has two other series in the early stages: The Still Waters Suspense Series, and The Dismal, Florida Suspense Series, which are both just as good.

"A Land Remembered" by Pateick Smith is always a highly recommended book about Florida. And, if course, "The Yearling" by Marjorie Rawlings....go visit her farm in Cross Creek after you read her book or her book "Cross Creek"

I go along with anything by Carl Hiassen as well as Best State Ever by Dave Barry. Hysterical! If you want something serious and shameful, try Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, a very depressing book about Central Florida in the late 1940s.

Roos McDonald’ had a series of books with a character called Travis McGee they come before some of the other fl books , h like bed on a boat called the busted flush great fl books lot of local color

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
His grand plan to build a railroad to the FL Keys. Timelly given Gulf storms ongoing now...his effort, a.k.a. "Flagler's Folly" was before weather forecasting accuracy we have today.