What Evil Lurks

Two murders and an apparent suicide on Valentine’s Day, 1960 is thought by authorities and most residents of a small southern Florida city a matter of revenge and remorse. The seventy year editor of the town newspaper thinks it is something else and he is determined to prove it. From the backwaters of the Everglades to the streets of New York city, from out-of-state developers eager to make a quick fortune to an ambitious prosecutor running for the US Congress, evil lurks like...
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Two murders and an apparent suicide on Valentine’s Day, 1960 is thought by authorities and most residents of a small southern Florida city a matter of revenge and remorse. The seventy year editor of the town newspaper thinks it is something else and he is determined to prove it. From the backwaters of the Everglades to the streets of New York city, from out-of-state developers eager to make a quick fortune to an ambitious prosecutor running for the US Congress, evil lurks like an alligator in the swamp. In this fast-paced story, friendships are strained, loyalties are tested, and in the end old animosities put aside to make a daring rescue of the editor’s wife.