Thorn Mystery / Mean High Tide / James W. Hall

In minutes one life will be expertly, brutally taken, and another plunged into a mean season of fury, obsession, and revenge… His name is Thorn, his world is mangrove islands, open waters, and the ghosts of a too-violent past. Darcy Richards was everything to him. Now, finding her killer is. Wading into a seething mystery, Thorn is catapulted into a nightmare of violence and deception. There lurks a sensual young woman with a hard come-on, an aging former mobster, and a diabolical ex-CIA man. What they all have in common is each other’s mad ruthlessness — and a little red fish that will make some people very rich, and others very dead…