The Sanibel Sunset Detective (The Sanibel Sunset Detective Mysteries)

Tree Callister is not much of a private detective. His first client just turned up at the door, and he's 12 years old. What's more, the kid has the grand total of $7 with which to hire Tree to find his mother. Everyone on Sanibel Island, Florida, where Tree lives, thinks the former newspaper reporter is out of his mind. His only defender is his wife Freddie, and even she has doubts. Then a headless body shows up, along with a threatening thug, a couple of suspicious detectives, and a former girlfriend, now an ex-FBI agent, who suspects Tree knows more than he is admitting. Before long, Tree is up to his neck in the kind of murder and mystery he only imagined as a boy reading the private detective novels he loved. Formats : EPUB Tree Callister is not much of a private detective. His first client just turned up at his office door and hes twelve years old. Whats more, the kid has the grand total of seven dollars with which to hire Tree to find his mother. Everyone on Sanibel Island in Florida where Tree lives thinks the former newspaper reporter is out of his mind. His only defender is his wife Freddie, and even she has doubts about her husbands new profession. Then, in rapid succession, he's confronted with a headless body, a threatening thug, the beautiful wife of a convicted media tycoon, a couple of suspicious detectives, and a former girlfriend, now an FBI agent who suspects that Tree knows more than he is admitting. Suddenly, all sorts of people are trying to manipulate Tree Callister. Everyone thinks hes in way over his head. But maybe, just maybe, hes going to surprise everyoneeven himself. Librarian's note: the series has 13 volumes as of April 2023: #1, The Sanibel Sunset Detective (2010); #2, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Returns (2011); #3, Another Sanibel Sunset Detective (2012); #4, The Two Sanibel Sunset Detectives (2013); #5, The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective (2014); #6, The Four Wives of the Sanibel Sunset Detective (2015); #7, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Goes to London (2016); #8, Heart of the Sanibel Sunset Detective (2016); #9, The Dame with the Sanibel Sunset Detective (2017); #10, I, the Sanibel Sunset Detective (2018); #11, Bring Me the Head of the Sanibel Sunset Detective (2019); #12, The Devil and the Sanibel Sunset Detective (2020); and #13, The Sanibel Sunset Detective Saves the World (2021). Tree Callister, a former newspaper reporter turned private investigator, takes on his first case...a twelve-year-old looking for his mother. Everyone thinks he's nuts, then a headless body, a threatening thug, the beautiful wife of a convicted media tycoon, a couple of suspicious detectives, and a former girlfriend, now an FBI agent show up, all suspecting that Tree knows more than he is admitting.