“Deadly delivers an entertaining, and amusing, ride.” – KirkusTalk show host Knight Mulcahy makes $65 million a year insulting people.Until the night he’s found, skivvies around his ankles, a bullet in his heart.Enter Palm Beach’s finest: homicide cops Charlie Crawford and Mort Ott, who proceed to go in circles as the suspect list ramps up to double digits. Sin, scandal, murder… if you’ve read … digits. Sin, scandal, murder… if you’ve read Nasty and Poison, you know the drill! Kirkus said, “readers who enjoyed the previous two installments [of the Palm Beach series] will welcome the return of Charlie Crawford, still cynically charming and dashing.”
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Tom Turner’s Palm Beach Deadly is a great read. Talk shoe host Knight Mulcahy “The Mouth of the South” makes his millions insulting people day after day until someone at a pool party shoots him multiple times in his pool house with his pants pulled down. Charlie Crawford and Mort Ott are on the case, but given Mulcahy’s personality, the suspect list is pages long. Great humor and a ‘can’t put it down’ read!
How the other half live, in Palm Beach Deadly, Tom Turner’s 3rd book in his Charlie Crawford Palm Beach Mysteries. Billionaires in million-dollar mansions, with exclusive golf and ‘gentlemen’s’ clubs to relax in, flashy expensive cars, clothes and jewellery and carefree, (or are they?)luxury lifestyles, are contrasted with Homicide Detective Charlie Crawford’s basic rental property, stressful and sometimes dangerous career, living off grab-it-while-you-can fast food and with no real time for romance. Yet it is Charlie and his dry-witted, sometimes snarky sidekick and partner, the curiously-named Mort Ott, who have to put their comparatively humdrum lives on hold to serve and protect their pampered social opposites and locals alike, when first Knight Mulcahy, a self-important Jeremy Kyle/Piers Morgan-type with his own chat show, is found shot to death post-coitally in his own pool-house, during one of his Gatsby-style parties for the the rich and not-so-famous.
Suspects aplenty, with grudges against their erstwhile host, are to be found among the music and media idols, rich entrepreneurs and more’regular’ folk, like Rosie the realtor to the rich, (aka Charlie’s,’girl with her pulse on the hip and happening’ in Palm Beach, who gives him tips about what she learns while at viewings, parties etc). Nobody seems particularly upset by Mulcahy’s demise – not even his ‘gofer’ son Paul, (‘Pawn’) or his wife, with whom he had an ‘open’ marriage.
Trawling through secrets and lies – and cctv footage – of the many suspects, takes all the PBPD’s time and limited resources, causing stress and frustration to the max…only heightened when a Saudi Prince’s nephew who was studying at a nearby college, is found shot to death, during what seems to be the carjacking theft of one of his highness’ luxury sports cars.
How will Charlie Crawford and Mort Ott pull the department together, to give their utmost and clear up the many plots and sub-plots,whose resolution may make the literal and dangerous difference between life and death for the boys and girls in blue?
An exciting, climactic ending to Tom Turner’s Palm Beach Deadly, will keep you reading long into the night to find out the answers to this 5-star winner, #3 in a great series you won’t want to miss!
A great writer with a good sense of pace, believable characteristics and an interesting plot
An easy read with two good mysteries to enjoy!
Great fun. I enjoy reading about life in Palm Beach, Florida.
It was a good detective story infused with humor and action. A good summer read.
Real slow reading. Never seem to get started.
Tom Turner is rapidly becoming a favorite! Charlie Crawford is realistic and believable. Can’t wait for the next installment!
The book was great and the characters are wonderful!
This book is ponderous and excessively wordy. The characters are not well developed and the action is much too slow. It is the opposite of a page turner. The plot is fine, but I just could not wait for the book to be finished.
This is a thoroughly enjoyable book. Won’t win a Pulitzer but it’s a fun read.
It’s a good, quick read. The characters are mostly interesting and the stories are good. Just a few of the scenarios are a little implausible. Still an overall good read.
Set in Palm Beach FL where the elite is the norm, this is a cop procedural type book with lots of suspects and stories for the reader to ‘think about’ and then a twist thrown in to make it fun to read. I’ve read three of the Palm Beach series and looking forward to the last two.
Great characters, good story….loved it!
Fun read. Fast and interesting.
It was okay- the ending was a bit contrived
Good story with interesting characters, fun to read, kept me interested the whole way.
It took me a long time to read this book because it was so boring. There were a multitude of characters so it was difficult to remember who was who. I also didn’t care about the main characters. It’s a good book to read at bedtime because it will put you to sleep.
no interest in content
Fun read.