{"product_id":"floater-paperback","title":"Floater - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Koenig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sheriff combs the Everglades for the charming sociopath who killed his ex-wife\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears after their marriage collapses, Buck White splurges on Irene's coffin. She was found floating in a cypress swamp behind a Seminole village, her beauty marred by sadistic violence, a guitar string buried so deep in her neck that it takes two autopsies to dig it out. Sheriff White knows neither the time nor place of death, but the savaged corpse tells him to look for a serial killer: white, under forty, antisocial, and with a fondness for liquor. The man White is tracking turns out to be a special kind of crazy. Uncommonly charismatic, he has the wit and cunning to elude law enforcement while seducing new victims. More women will die before White gets on his trail, but no one will hurt the sheriff as badly as Irene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Koenig is an author of hard-boiled fiction. A former crime reporter, he won critical acclaim and an Edgar nomination for his first novel, \u003ci\u003eFloater\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), a grimly violent story of con men, cops, and killers in the Florida Everglades. His next two novels were \u003ci\u003eLittle Odessa\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), a darkly comic tale of life in New York's Ukrainian underworld, and \u003ci\u003eSmugglers Notch \u003c\/i\u003e(1989), a story of brutal murder in snowbound Vermont. Koenig's fourth novel, the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eBrides of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), won strong reviews for its elegant treatment of police procedure in Islamic Iran. For nearly two decades after \u003ci\u003eBrides of Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, Koenig did not publish. But in 2012 the pulp-style publishing house Hard Case Crime released his newest novel, \u003ci\u003eFalse Negative\u003c\/i\u003e, a rollicking mystery about a journalist who, like Koenig once did, writes for true-crime magazines. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759263383840,"sku":"9781480401877","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/978c44133a2c376e39e29924aaefadfd.webp?v=1780147245","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/floater-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}