A Series of Mysteries: Fiction

(Dorsey, Tim) Tim Dorsey grew up in a small town about an hour north of Miami called Riviera Beach. Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999. He has gone on to publish twenty novels, including Florida Roadkill, Orange Crush, The Big Bamboo, Hurricane Punch, and Atomic Lobster. Clownfish Blues, the latest installment of Dorsey’s bestselling Serge A. Storm series, features Serge and company getting mixed up with villains who are gaming the Florida state lottery, all the while trying to recreate “episodes” of the classic TV show, Route 66.

(Gordon, William C.) After his father died, William C. Gordon was raised in a Mexican ghetto in East Los Angeles, where he learned how to speak Spanish. Following college at Berkley, a stint in the Army, and founding a daycare sports program for boys, Gordon would go on to become a San Francisco trial lawyer with a long, successful career. In 1987, he married Chilean-American author Isabel Allende, "forging an alliance rich in creative inspiration and an abundance of affection." Gordon is the author of noir mysteries that have been published in ten languages. Sixth in the series featuring newspaper reporter Samuel Hamilton, Unfinished (Bay Tree Publishing), confronts the question: how much hurt can be repaired when betrayal, kidnapping, and violence touch a person's life?