WEST PALM: COMPLETE NOVEL

Joss Cordero’s smart, taut and inventive writing in this fast-pacing thriller captures the quirky flavor and dialogue unique to South Florida, where class often mingles with trash.

In West Palm Beach, a night guard at a local funeral home is caught by the owner on Christmas Eve performing a bizarrely personal ritual with the corpses. After a narrow escape, the psychopathic guard is compelled to find new victims for his compulsive calling, even as a retired police detective turned private eye named Smoker, teams up with an almost victim, the beautiful but tough ex-coast guard female ship captain, as they try to stop a killer in his tracks.

With its taut pacing and humor, Cordero creates a relentlessly addictive storyline that captures South Florida's quirkiness, where trash mingles with class, at its best.

Joss Cordero is the pseudonym for a bestselling author who lives in Maine and Florida.