Book Reviews for E.C. Ayres
The Tony Lowell Mysteries : “(Private Investigator) Tony Lowell defies cliché. ..just when you think he’s yet another 40-something investigator Ayres surprises you.” Miami Herald on Hour of the Manatee , winner of the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel award. Book One: HOUR of the MANATEE Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly: “A weary and reclusive news photographer turned PI must delve into a quarter-century-old death for answers to a recent murder in this atmospheric mystery set on Florida's Gulf Coast. A dotty old woman is shot to death in a motel just as she is asking Tony Lowell to investigate the 1966 drowning of playboy heir Henry Hartley III. All he knows is that she was institutionalized after witnessing the death, which was ruled accidental. A visit from two FBI agents and hints of political scandal goad Lowell to stay on the case, which has been assigned to conservative detective sergeant Lena Bedrosian of the Manatee