Red Tide Rising
News: my new Tony Lowell Mystery RED TIDE (an eco-thriller) has just been published by Booktrope. Please click on the image for a link to my page on Amazon.com, for more details.
I need to say, in full disclosure, that this book was 17 years in the making, for personal reasons including health, state of mind, a need to move forward, working overseas in China, sending my son off to college: the list goes on.
But this series was ahead of its time when first published back in the '90s, and was in need of revival. And the post-Katrina post BP disasters in the Gulf of Mexico made the need to renew this series, and it's environmental overtones, all the more pressing.
For a little history, my first book of this series, Hour of the Manatee, was winner of a national book award and competition (the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First P.I. Novel competition) back in 1992 (it wasn't published until 1994. It was followed by three more titles: Eye of the Gator, Night of the Panther, and Lair of the Lizard) all of which were popular, but not as popular as they might have been had they not dealt with a pot-smoking, peacenik P.I. who refused to carry a weapon, and focused on social and environmental issues (Eye of the Gator may well have been the first eco-thriller, back in 1995 when it was published). Other books in the series dealt with racism, guns, militias, endangered species, judicial corruption, dark money, and violence against women.
Please read my new book and post a review on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble, and thank you.
I need to say, in full disclosure, that this book was 17 years in the making, for personal reasons including health, state of mind, a need to move forward, working overseas in China, sending my son off to college: the list goes on.But this series was ahead of its time when first published back in the '90s, and was in need of revival. And the post-Katrina post BP disasters in the Gulf of Mexico made the need to renew this series, and it's environmental overtones, all the more pressing.
For a little history, my first book of this series, Hour of the Manatee, was winner of a national book award and competition (the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First P.I. Novel competition) back in 1992 (it wasn't published until 1994. It was followed by three more titles: Eye of the Gator, Night of the Panther, and Lair of the Lizard) all of which were popular, but not as popular as they might have been had they not dealt with a pot-smoking, peacenik P.I. who refused to carry a weapon, and focused on social and environmental issues (Eye of the Gator may well have been the first eco-thriller, back in 1995 when it was published). Other books in the series dealt with racism, guns, militias, endangered species, judicial corruption, dark money, and violence against women.
Please read my new book and post a review on Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble, and thank you.
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