Boca Mournings (Eddie Perlmutter)

Synopsis

part Robert Parker, Part Carl Hiaasen, Eddie Perlmutter Is A High Testosterone, No-nonsense Detective With A Tender Core, And Makes Turning Sixty A Carnal, Tropical Ride. —andrew Gross, Bestselling Author Of the Blue Zone, on boca Knights

since He Arrived In Sunny Florida, Eddie Has Survived A Run-in With The Russian Mafia And Tangled With Boca’s Own Family Of Neo-nazis. But Crime And Punishment In The Land Of The Early Bird Special Is Complicated. The Russians Have Fled . . . But Their Evil Lingers On; And Though The Neo-nazis’ Junior Thug Is Guilty, Punishing Him Is A Lot More Complicated Than Eddie Thought It Would Be When He Caught The Little Creep Harassing Decent Folks In The Name Of White Supremacy. And That’s Just Eddie’s Unfinished Business. Helped By A Reformed Computer Conman, He’s Busier With New Cases Than He Was In Boston, Ranging From A Mysteriously Haunted Elevator To A Double Kidnapping. He’s Got Cases With Trails As Far As Russia And Israel. Retirement, My Foot.

good Thing He Didn’t Retire From Matters Of The Heart . . . Because The Women Won’t Let Him. Between His Amorous Adventures And His Burgeoning Sleuth Business, The Twists And Turns Of Eddie’s Life Make This An Edge-of-your-seat, Uproariously Funny Thriller . . .

publishers Weekly

cybertheft, Neo-nazi Thugs, Russian Mafia, Inconsiderate And Incompetent Doctors, And A Bitter Dispute Among Condo Owners Keep Retired Boston Cop Eddie Perlmutter Busy In Forman's Enjoyable, Episodic Second Crime Novel (after Boca Knights). Having Been Diagnosed Years Earlier With “compulsive Explosive Disorder,” The Vigorous 60-year-old Is Now More Intent On Salvaging Or Redeeming Miscreants Than Punishing Them. Eddie's Reputation And His New Pi Agency In Boca Raton, Fla., Bring Him Lots Of Intriguing Cases, Which He Solves Or Resolves In Often Ingenious Ways. Eddie, Who Still Fights To Control His Temper, Is Capable Of Busting A Nose, But Mostly He Devises Retribution That Merits The Phrase “poetic Justice” If Rehabilitation Fails. While Forman's Sense Of Humor Can Be Childish (as In Boca Knights, Eddie Talks To “mr. Johnson,” His Penis), He Deals With Such Serious Issues As Anti-semitism, Gay Rights, And Health Care With More Insight And Sense Than Most Genre Authors. (feb.)