“An entertaining and amusing ride” – Kirkus ReviewsVasily Zinoviev is the last man on earth you want to say no to. Just ask the “working girl” who suffered a horrible death while skinny-dipping in a pool one night. Or the president of the prestigious Poinciana Club who’s sorry he ever laid eyes on the ruthless Russian. Living in a $20 million oceanfront mansion with a harem of mistresses, Vasily … mansion with a harem of mistresses, Vasily and his brother are more than a handful for Palm Beach homicide detective Charlie Crawford. But throw in a vengeful ex-wife, a vicious hit man, a mysterious tycoon–even more diabolical than the Russians– and you have Palm Beach Poison, proclaimed by Kirkus Reviews a “relentlessly diverting mystery” and “briskly paced fun.”
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Book 2 in Tom Turner’s Charlie Crawford Palm Beach Mystery series. A most enjoyable read with a wonderfully bizarre crime right from the get-go. Delightfully insane Russian mobsters and ‘Way too rich for their own good’ Palm Beach residents provide some truly crazy situations. I love the back and forth with Charlie Crawford and his partner Ott dealing with the social-climbing chief of police, Rutledge. A delightful read and I strongly recommend it!
Palm Beach Poison – a review by Rosemary Kenny
In an exclusive Palm Beach ocean-front mansion, murder and extortion become everyday events for the new occupants – who are Russian Mafiosi!
Amongst other crimes, they apply pressure to the Ponciana Golf Club’s President to sell it to them.
Churchill Ames, initially rebuffs their blatant bribery and thinks he can walk away scot free, only to find the reprisals are far more deadly than he’d ever have imagined.
Detective Charlie Crawford and his partner Mort Ott are soon hot on the trail, after further deaths occur. With no honour among thieves, can our sleuths weed out the guilty from the innocent?
What makes the Golf Club worth millions of dollars (and seven murders), to obtain its ownership?
Who is Evsei? What is Leon Barnes’ involvement? How will Crawford and Ott get to the truth?
Palm Beach Poison is Book 2 in the Charlie Crawford Palm Beach Mysteries series by Tom Turner, a great standalone novel that is sure to make you buy/read all the rest as quickly as they’re available Get your copy of Palm Beach Poison today!
Hard to put down. I’ll be reading more of this series!
Quick Read. Held my interest. Excellent book.
read in one weekend!!!
T.Turner is a terrific author. His Charlie Crawford character is likable and believable. I’m tired of neurotic heroes. Read this book.
Tom Turner’s whole Palm Beach series books are fun, page-turning mysteries. Most of them can be finished in one reading because you just don’t want to put them down. If it’s easy, quick reading that you’re looking for, this series is right up your alley!
Nice backdrop, mores and culture of Palm Beach. Straight-up crime drama, interesting characters, believable, well written.
Enjoy reading books that are set in my home state. This is a police procedural/murder mystery. Well written, 2nd in the series. Looking forward to more.
Underwhelming. Few characters developed enough to care about. Basically shallow and amaturish.
Good story.
Weird and yet had to read every word. Really unique mystery.
Just ok
Not the best, but I did want to keep reading
Having lived in this area of Florida for many years, this fictional tale with its wild assortment of malevolent, pretentious, clueless and unscrupulous characters is sooo believable it could be a front page feature in the Miami Herald !
Gave a good feel of the area and the characters were entertaining. Good writing..
Just okay
Quick read and kept me surprised to the end.
A great read!
loved book , easy and entertaining read