September 1999; 1st printing. Near Fine softcover. Bright, clean covers and spine; tightly bound; lightly scuffed; clean interior with slight age darkening at page edges. 16mo, 309 pp. This is a new, unread book.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Mango Opera (Alex Rutledge Mysteries)

Publisher

St. Martin/Minotaur

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0312969880

ISBN 13

9780312969882

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

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Synopsis

Part-time Key West crime-site photographer Alex Rutledge is awakened by his estranged girlfriend in the middle of the night and is even more startled when she announces that her new roommate, to whom she bears a striking resemblance, has been murdered. Reprint.

Review

Key West has been a geographical muse for a gamut of writers from Wallace Stevens to Jimmy Buffett. Cast almost adrift, the last pearl on the string of islands that make up the end of America's East Coast, Key West endures in our imaginations as an expatriate paradise, a pirate hideaway, and a perpetual party. In his debut novel, The Mango Opera, Tom Corcoran does little to shatter these illusions. Indeed, he does quite a bit to fill out the uninitiated reader's understanding of the secretive and steamy history of Cayo Hueso.

Corcoran's hero, Alex Rutledge is a freelance photographer whose island life has taken a turn for the worse with the recent departure of his girlfriend, Annie Minnette. When he isn't shooting magazine glossies and menu food, Rutledge does a bit of forensic work for local law enforcement agencies. It's easy money until the morning he finds Annie's look-alike roommate posed for some gruesome portraits on the other side of his lens. Police begin to suspect a serial killer as the list of victims grows, and Rutledge suspects something more sinister when he realizes the list of victims reads like a page or two from his own little black book.

Like a tropical chef, Corcoran flavors The Mango Opera with colorful characters, crisp dialogue, island history, and quite a bit of dark but highly appropriate humor. He serves it all up in tasty bites that promise to satisfy almost any mystery lover.

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