_īruce DeSilva, winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award, is author of the Mulligan crime novels including “The Dread Line.

White spun off Hannah in 2012, and the four books and counting in that series have a freshness that some recent Ford novels are lacking. Once again, she turns down his marriage proposal, and her new boyfriend has him struggling with an unfamiliar emotion. Meanwhile, Doc’s on-again, off-again relationship with Hannah, with whom he has fathered a child, shows his vulnerable side. And Doc has reason to believe that one or two of them may be up to no good. Four collections of his columns for Outside magazine have been published elsewhere. Several of the Doc Ford novels have been New York Times bestsellers. While that’s going on, Tomlinson, who once sold his semen to a for-profit sperm bank when he was strapped for cash, is beset by a bunch of full-grown biological children who have managed to track him down. Randy Wayne White has written twenty-five books in the Doc Ford series and several novels in the Hannah Smith series as well as nonfiction. But a dishonest former IRS agent and a thuggish Bahamian customs official get wind of it and hope to trick Doc into revealing the location of the rest of the treasure.

But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the. After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. These days, Doc, a semi-retired intelligence operative scratching out a living as a marine biologist on Florida’s Sanibel Island, is gradually selling off his find. From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Deep Blue Good-by is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him.

Sanibel Flats by Randy Wayne White