Cold Water Corpse

COLD WATER CORPSE has Luanne Fogarty and the residents of North Florida bundled up in down coats as a early winter freeze spreads misery over the fair. Luanne has to juggle her teaching assignment with manning the Sheriff Department's booth at the fair. Glynn Alam doesn't disappoint as she juggles three different story lines around a tight plot that keeps the reader turning pages until the very end. Twisted and woven around the story are the effects of hydrilla grass that clog the waterways of North Florida's swamps. Ecological disaster from where the remains of a dumped aquarium invades the warm waters. I'm finding this series a delight with fresh characters, knowledgeable descriptions and tight plotting. Don't want to miss reading them in order. Nash Black, author of HAINTS and WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS

Luanne Fogarty and her hunky boy friend, Vernon, are at it again! The Florida swamp, the heat, the crocodiles...and nature's raw beauty...plus a carnival. Can't wait for the next one, High Water Hellion.

Once again Glynn Marsh Alam has provided us with realistic, tantalizing and exciting adventures of Luanne Fogarty. I feel like I know this woman who tries to juggle so many aspects of her life as she solves mysteries. I continue to be fascinated by her cabin in the swamps and her swamp friends who help her and keep her safe. If you have not read all three of the Fogarty mysteries, you are missing an opportunity to feel what life is like near the caves and swamps of north Florida. I can't wait to read the next novel from this author.

Once again, Glynn Marsh Alam captivates the reader with her third mystery following Luanne Fogarty's continuing adventures in North Florida's swamps and sinkholes. Luanne juggles her "day job" of teaching linguistics at the local University with scuba diving for bodies and evidence in mysterious waters. This time, rather than the sticky heat of Florida summers, which Alam made palpably humid to the reader in previous books, Luanne contends with the cold of approaching winter - cold enough (so locals say) for lizards to crack. This is definitely not the Florida one typically reads about - in many ways.The story unfolds during Fair week, as a ragtag carnival with a very odd assortment of performers and workers sets up for business. The patterns of a serial killer emerge, a seriously large snake is lurking about, and twists along the way hold the reader until the very end.I especially enjoyed the way that Alam portrays Luanne's attempts to balance her professional, professorial duties and interactions with her University colleagues with her diving and detective work and interactions with the police and swamp people - some friendly and some not so friendly. All of this makes for another very entertaining time in swamp country.

Luanne and Pasquin are on their way to pick up alligator meat for the sheriff department’s booth at the local fair when they discover a woman’s body floating in the shallows. The coroner makes the connection with several other murders in various locations, including a skeleton that Luanne found while working another case two years earlier. Then a traveling carnival worker in the area for the fair is found murdered in the same manner. What was his connection with the women killed? Why did the killer change his or her pattern? Will Luanne figure out the answer before the fair leaves town?This is the third Luanne Fogarty mystery, and it’s just as great as the others. The characters have grown and continue to develop in this story. I’m very interested to see where the author goes with a couple characters. And I loved watching Tony fight his pride whenever Luanne provided a good direction to go. The story moved along well with a couple sub-plots weaved expertly throughout. And the writing is still top notch. This book is set during the beginnings of winter, and Ms. Alam expertly brings the changing warm and cold weather and the changes to the swamps to life.This series is wonderful. The mysteries are intriguing and the writing is outstanding. I just finished this book and already I can’t wait for the next. Don’t miss out.