Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime

✍ Scribed by Wood, Cutter

• Book ID: 110455911
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 145 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781616208264

✦ Synopsis

A love story --and the story of a murder.
When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest--her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car--and the residents of Anna Maria Island, with few facts to fuel their speculation, begin to fear the worst. Then, with the days passing quickly, her motel is set on fire, her boyfriend flees the county, and detectives begin digging on the beach.
Cutter Wood was a guest at Musil-Buehler's motel as the search for the missing woman gained momentum, and he found himself drawn steadily deeper into the case. Driven by his own need to understand how a relationship could spin to pieces in such a fatal fashion, he began to meet with the eccentric inhabitants of Anna Maria Island, with the earnest but stymied detectives and with the affable man soon presumed to be her...