A missing husband. A widow grieving--for lost cash. A reluctant adventurer pulled into the puzzle. Twists and turns and violent, ugly death. Atlanta Bones is a Florida thriller with hard-edged action, exotic locales, colorful characters, and a twist of wit, served very dry. Jim Dallas is an independent investigator in the mode of Travis McGee, and Atlanta Bones has a flavor reminiscent of John D. MacDonald, Carl Hiassen, and Randy Wayne White.

Book Two in the series of Jim Dallas thrillers, Cuban Dagger finds Dallas's friend Sam Lyons interested in the problem of Judy Hampton, who vanished while celebrating her eighteenth birthday with friends on Aruba.Runaway-daughter cases, Dallas knows, seldom have happy endings. Still, he had no reason to think that looking for the girl would lead to a tangled web of crime, treachery, and deceit...and a deadly encounter with the mysterious assassin called the Cuban Dagger.Tau...