Palm Beach Nasty (a Charlie Crawford Mystery) (volume 1)

For fans of Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, and Stuart Woods comes Tom Turner’s "entertaining debut" ( Publishers Weekly ) set in glitzy Palm Beach, FL―where the residents are as treacherous as they are rich. Burned out New York homicide cop Charlie Crawford goes south to take it slow. But after six months in steamy Palm Beach, Florida, he's bored out of his mind and desperate for a face-down stiff with a little rigor setting in. One Halloween night, Crawford is first on the scene and finds a twenty-year-old male swinging from a stately banyan tree. This sets in motion colliding plots involving a billionaire with a thing for young girls, a far-reaching art scam with Crawford's girlfriend playing a starring role, and a ruthless hustler passing himself off as the long lost son of one of the richest men in town