When Launie Sanderson’s trial abruptly ends with bloodshed, and two mighty explosions rip through the Sound, costing millions of dollars, the Prof and his friends at the La Mancha start to believe that this season will be worse than the previous two.
Two daring and unexpected rescues are made from the explosions which will lead to two deaths—one with pure sadistic pleasure, and one with final consent.
One resident of the La Mancha is not so certain the drug running on Okaloosa Island is over, which leads to a surprise death and a grisly murder.
JC Blevins, the Florida State police sergeant, is about to throw in the towel as nothing fits together, and clues are tightly hidden from him.
There is romance and humor in the air as the relationship between Ester Haynes and JC grows; her three-year-old, Little Mitch, thinks it’s “yucky!”
A stranger is nosing around Ollie’s grave and asking the wrong questions.
The Prof is visited by a character who scares the daylights out him—a character who cannot possibly be walking the beach or sitting on the low perimeter wall in front of Jonathan L.
The only certainty is that the mighty Gulf will continue nudging at the beach, or back off, and really thrash it.
