A Person of Interest

About the Book

--As unpredictable as a ‘cane bounding along the Florida Straits.— The heiress to a computer software fortune is found drowned in the turquoise waters off the Key West Bight. Instead of hiring a glitzy, buttoned-down Miami detective, her billionaire father contacts Freshwater Conch—Harry Crashaw—to uncover his daughter’s death. Crashaw knows by heart the bougainvillea-lined alleys and secrets lurking behind the tin-roofed, “palmy” Conch homes of Key West’s Old Town. The quest takes Crashaw on a lurid, convoluted chase through the lower Keys’ mangrove mazes. A hurricane, cigarette boats, and sex resorts add more salsa than anything this side of Havana.

About the Author

Bill Chernecky received his Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. He has taught English at Hillsborough Community College and the University of Tampa. He is currently an English professor at Louisiana State University at Eunice. A Person of Interest: A Key West Story is his first novel.