Writers Tricks of the Trade Volume 6 Issue 4

REVIEWS BY MARTHA MARTHA A. C HEVES — RESIDENT REVIEWER RE-LA Menu MURDER IN MOUNT DORA By: De Miller ISBN: 978-0692486177 Publisher: MillerWords Publication Date: July 7, 2015 Pages: 408 Kindle, paperback MARTHA CHEVES AUTHOR/REVIEWER Trent Cooper, 20-year newspaper vet for the Kansas City Star has retired. He and his photographer Horatio Cook are moving to Mount Dora, Florida. Trent has great dreams of finally having time to write his first novel. He finds the perfect house and discovers the perfect spot for writing in a little cafe called Stairway to Heavenly Goodies. And that is where he's busy writing his novel when Horatio interrupts him with news that there was a body found by fishermen, in the lake. About 75 years earlier Meyer Lansky opened up a casino in the little town of Eustis, Florida. His right arm man Bobby Skinny Boy Aieli is the one he goes to when someone gets out of hand and things need to be 'handled'. But with the problem that Lansky finds himself faced with in connection with one of his employees, he decided this was one he would take care of this himself. And the best place for him to handle this is out in the middle of the lake. Then comes Meredith Archibald. She saw the news of the bones being found and believes it to be her grandfather. Meredith was adopted when both her parents were killed when she was only 3 months old. She has searched for her real family for some time and after meeting with an aunt in New York she knows this has to be him. So, after scraping up all the money she has in the world she takes a trip to Mount Dora and meets with Trent in hopes of hiring him to help her prove the identity of the man in the lake. This book has to be one of the most attention holding books I've read. It flips from the early 1900's to 2007. I've never enjoyed reading books during the did. I recommend this one to anyone who loves a really great story, and a little history along the way DE MILLER, AUTHOR WRITERS’ TRICKS OF THE TRADE PAGE 21 JULY-AUGUST 2016

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