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Mick Murphy Key West Mysteries
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Murphy gets caught up in the Irish drug wars after a friend is mistakenly taken for a gang member and murdered in Dublin. Written 2018
Haskins's second Mick Murphy Key West mystery (after 2008's Chasin' the Wind) offers more gunfights than developed characters. On their way to a romantic lunch, journalist Murphy and his sometime girlfriend, attorney Tita Toledo, see Murphy's waterfront friend, Jay Bruehl, fall to his death from the roof of six-story Hotel Key West. Written 2012
When Mick Murphy stops at night on U.S. 1 to assist a teenage girl in distress, his world begins to unravel. Chased by thugs, the girl is traumatized and can’t speak to Murphy. Once at home, his live-in Irish girlfriend Peggy Naughton helps communicate with the teenager. Written 2016
After two suspicious deaths in Key West, Mick Murphy gets caught up in a conspiracy theorist dream. Corrupt Florida politicians, all the way to the governor, land developers and banks are ready to develop the pristine Keys, including Murphy's beloved Key West. Written 2015
A pregnant woman friend of Mick Murphy's is beaten to death. As she lay dying Murphy promises to make the killer face justice. His pursuit takes him and his mismatched eclectic friends to the Ocala National Forest looking for a meth lab run by outlaw bikers. Written 2015
A simple request of Mick Murphy to find his cousin Cecil Fahey turns into a struggle of avoiding irate SAS soldiers determined to kill Cecil for his IRA activities in the '80s. Written 2014
When journalist Mick Murphy runs into his love fantasy in a wintry Harvard Yard, he is soon dragged into a web of brutal killings that began in Boston and end in Southern California. Written 2011
When I first came to Tijuana, Mexico, more than 20 years ago, it was a sleepy border town, minutes from San Diego, California, where liquor was cheap and women plentiful. Written 2011
"Chasin' the Wind" nails the colorful and often violent action in both Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba. It navigates corruption and small town politics in the southernmost city of the United States. Written 2009
I have been following for more than a year the Los Angeles Times' great series, Crisis in Mexico that deals with the awful drug war going on south of our borders. Written 2013
When Mick Murphy discovers the body of a Cold War female assassin he is draw into a drama that includes a hit man for Boston gangster Whitey Bulger and some semi-retired Cold War agents in search of $20 million in diamonds taken by a rogue agent. Written 2011
Because of the destructive ending of Stairway to the Bottom, this sequel begins with Norm telling the story. If you haven't read the earlier book, you should before reading the sequel. Mick Murphy begins telling the story in the book's second part, when the crew returns to Key West. Written 2013
Finding Picasso, Murder in Key West, The Floater, Drumstick Murder and Shamus Award Nominee ... Vampire Slayer Murdered in Key West
I was born at an early age in a Boston hospital. I don't recall my birth, but accept it as truth since it appears on my birth certificate, I'm here, and my parents have assured me it's the truth. I have to assume that's when and how I arrived.
I grew up in North Quincy, Massachusetts, and went through the public school system. I wasn't a student who stood out. If my English teacher in the ninth grade had not told me to put down a copy of Hemingway's short stories (I had taken it off a bookrack during study class) because I was "too stupid to understand it," I might never have wanted to read. Thank you Mr. Carlin! In my senior year, I talked my creative writing teacher, Mrs. Shapiro, into getting the school to allow us to publish a creative writing magazine, Counterpoint. Mr. Carlin barely passed me, Mrs. Shapiro gave me A's! Go figure! -- More About Michael
"I've spent some time on Key West, and Michael Haskins captures its exotic nature in wonderfully spare prose and dialogue. Throw in a good mystery with international implications and you have a genuine winner in Chasin' the Wind." -- Jeremiah Healy, Author of Turnabout and The Only Good Lawyer, Shamus Award Winner
"Mick Murphy has been in some trouble before, but NOBODY WINS puts him in a life and death situation about every five pages. From Key West to Los Angeles, from New Jersey to Dublin, Ireland, Mick is on the run, and he's never sure why. Twists, turns and a climatic ending make this page turner a thrill- a- minute read." ~ Don Bruns, author of the Stuff Series & Sever Music Series