Some Like It Hot
Hot Crimes in Hot Climates

Florida:

Escape Clause, James O. Born
South Beach Shakedown, Don Bruns
Love Kills: A Brit Montero Novel,* Edna Buchanan
Prodigal Son, Thomas B. Cavanagh
Tripwire, Lee Child
Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery,* Blaize Clement
Perish By Pedicure: A Bad Hair Day Mystery,* Nancy J. Cohen
Predator, Patricia Cornwell
When Zeffie Got a Clue: A Cozy Mystery,* Peggy Darty
Atomic Lobster,* Tim Dorsey
Metro Girl,* Janet Evanovich
Findings,* Mary Anna Evans
The Problem with Murmur Lee, Connie May Fowler
Hot and Sweaty Rex: A Dinosaur Mafia Mystery, Eric Garcia
Gun Monkeys, Victor Gischler
The Vision, Heather Graham
Night of the Jaguar,* Michael Gruber
Snowbird's Blood, Joe L. Hensley
Nature Girl, Carl Hiaasen
Freeze Dry, Corson Hirschfeld
The Up and Up, Lee Irby
Denial,* Stuart M. Kaminsky
Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar & Grill, N.M. Kelby
A Killing Night,* Jonathon King
Wrecker's Key,* Christine Kling
Getting Old Is Criminal,* Rita Lakin
McNally's Bluff:  An Archy McNally Novel,* Vincent Lardo
The Deep Blue Alibi: A Solomon vs. Lord Novel,* Paul Levine
Dexter in the Dark,* Jeff Lindsay
Cover Up: A Tale of Art, Intrigue, Murder And High Society, Dagmar Lowe
Time to Say Goodbye, Pat MacEnulty
Virgins and Martyrs: An Aria Quynn Novel, E.L. Merkel
Deep Blue: A Beck Easton Adventure, Tom Morrisey
Last Run, Hilary Norman
Exile Trust,* Vincent H. O'Neil
Fear Death by Water: A Harry Brock Mystery,* Kinley Roby
The Night Stalker: A Novel of Suspense, James Swain
Clubbed to Death: A Dead-End Job Mystery,* Elaine Viets
Six Bills, M. Diane Vogt
Black Widow,* Randy Wayne White
The Way We Die Now,* Charles Willeford
Pepperfish Keys: A Detective Barrett Raines Mystery,* Darryl Wimberley
Iron Orchid,* Stuart Woods

Louisiana:

The Burying Field, Kenneth Abel
The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robicheaux Novel,* James Lee Burke
Now You See Him, Stella Cameron
Death Swatch,* Laura Childs
Whispers of the Bayou, Mindy Starns Clark
Wash and Die: A Charlotte Larue Mystery,* Barbara Colley
Death in the French Quarter,* Kent Conwell
First the Dead, Tim Downs
Sinners and Saints, Eileen Dreyer
Honor Among Spies, Quinn Fawcett
Lost River,*David Fulmer
Bourbon Street, Leonce Gaiter
Deadly Gift, Heather Graham
Fever Moon, Carolyn Haines
Dead Water,* Barbara Hambly
Shiver, Lisa Jackson
Countdown, Iris Johansen
Fallen, Erin McCarthy
Bound by Blood, Rick Nelson
The Dogs of Babel, Carolyn Parkhurst
The Rebels of Babylon, Owen Parry
Yellow Moon, Jewell Parker Rhodes
P.I. on a Hot Tin Roof,* Julie Smith
Last Known Victim, Erica Spindler
Something Very Wild, Mary Zelinsky
New Orleans Noir, Julie Smith, editor  808.839 NEW (short story anthology)

Mississippi, Alabama, and other Southern States:

A Dilly of a Death,* Susan Wittig Albert
Antiques Flee Market: A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery,* Barbara Allan
Wicked City,* Ace Atkins
The Silver Needle Murder,* Laura Childs
The Crystal Skull Murders, Kent Conwell
Highway 61 Resurfaced,* Bill Fitzhugh
The Dying Crapshooter’s Blues, David Fulmer
Ham Bones,* Carolyn Haines
Penumbra, Carolyn Haines
Poppy Done to Death,* Charlaine Harris
Jackpot Bay, Martin Hegwood
True Evil, Greg Iles
Turning Angel, Greg Iles
The Air between Us, Deborah Johnson
Tishomingo Blues, Elmore Leonard
Fractured,* Karin Slaughter
Defending Angels, Mary Stanton
Grave Review: A Jubilee Showboat Mystery, Cynthia Thomason
Redemption, Frederick Turner
Where the Line Bleeds, Jesmyn Ward
Elvis and the Dearly Departed, Peggy Webb

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