{"product_id":"9781466835573","title":"Pepperfish Keys: A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is a \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e that has nothing to do with Disney World. Nothing to do with palm trees or Holiday Inns. Tourists are neither courted nor coddled in this \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, and you can go a hundred miles and never find a golden arch. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo says author Darryl Wimberley, and it's a Florida he knows. He knows, too, that in towns like Pepperfish Keys, there are those who still can't believe that a black man could rise to a high position in the state police. But Barrett Raines has done it; his father may have been a moneyless fisherman enriching his white employer, but things have changed---a bit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon Fowler, a local television reporter, isn't concerned with Barrett's race---she wouldn't have cared if he were pink and green. She just wants to use him to get him (and, she hopes, the state's senator as well) into some kind of blazing trouble that will let her write a prize-wining story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenator Baxter Stanton, of course, knows how important it is that the town's voters consider him \"their man\" in the upcoming election. There are activities he would like to stay hidden, and his young daughter, whom he can't harness, is having a fling with a man whom Barrett suspects is dealing with the senator in some kind of illegal business. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut things happen that neither Barrett nor Sharon expected, throwing them into an unlikely alliance. The dead body of the senator's daughter is discovered behind a water heater in the senator's mansion. Can Raines pull the threads together---and find out what they mean? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet along the northwestern coast of Florida's Big Bend, \u003ci\u003ePepperfish Keys\u003c\/i\u003e is an amazing addition to this riveting Florida Gulf noir series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141298307312,"sku":"9781466835573","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466835573_p0.jpg?v=1769891128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466835573","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}