Scavenger Reef

This is Shames's sophomore novel, and like a lot of sophomore efforts, it doesn't live up to the debut. Same Key West setting, same goofy characters, but less plot, less urgency. It almost seems as though the story has succumbed to the Key West lethargy Shames brings to life so evocatively. It also......more

I rarely read the blurb on the back of books and prefer either to go by recommendations in here, or (as in this case) I will read the second in a series in which the first impressed me. How different could book two be from book one? I really didn't enjoy this at all. I mistakenly believed this would......more

This is tough, I wasn't crazy about this book at all, but I am also definitely not the target audience for this book.... I pick this book up for a challenge, otherwise I would have never picked it up, and I probably will never read another book in the series.... not that it was bad, it just was not f......more

The basic story of Scavenger Reef is that a painter is lost at sea and is presumed dead. Friends and associates who have some of his paintings start to realize they have a windfall in the value of paintings he's given them. When the painter turns up alive, it turns out that someone is trying to kill......more

Muah! Just perfect. One of the few books I read earlier that let me know early on how it is okay to root for decent people and still it is okay to feel good about that. 2008......more