In this business, nothing is as good as dead.
The business in question is the high-end art world, and everyone in this darkly comedic mystery wants a piece of it.
When painter Augie Silver is lost at sea in a sailing accident, his many friends among Key West's artists, writers, and hangers-on mourn--until, that is, they realize that Augie's death has sent the prices for his pictures skyrocketing.
What at first seemed a tragedy turns out to be a windfall--until, that is, Augie, rescued at sea, limps back to town alive.
Not everyone is thrilled by the artist's resurrection.
Someone, in fact, is upset enough to start trying to bump off Augie for real.
Full of steamy Key West atmosphere and sometimes brutal insights into the wacky world of creative types, SCAVENGER REEF is both a taut whodunit and a wise meditation on loyalty real or faked, friendships sincere or toxic.
About the Author: Laurence Shames has been a New York City taxi driver, lounge singer, furniture mover, lifeguard, dishwasher, gym teacher, and shoe salesman.
Having failed to distinguish himself in any of those professions, he turned to writing full-time in 1976 and has not done an honest day's work since.
His basic laziness notwithstanding, Shames has published more than twenty books and hundreds of magazine articles and essays.
Best known for his critically acclaimed series of Key West novels, he has also authored non-fiction and enjoyed considerable though largely secret success as a collaborator and ghostwriter.
Shames has penned four New York Times bestsellers.
These have appeared on four different lists, under four different names, none of them his own.
This might be a record.
Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, to chain-smoking parents of modest means but flamboyant emotions, Shames graduated summa cum laude from NYU in 1972 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
Shortly after finishing college, he began annoying editors by sending them short stories they hated.
He also wrote longer things he th.
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