People Die in Sunshine: A Novel Of Miami
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Publisher Description
New York Times Best Selling Author, Gloria Nagy sliced through the social fabric of the North Shore of Long Island in A HOUSE IN THE HAMPTONS and now she aims her razor sharp talents on Miami--the new hot spot for glamour, greed and gore.
The Sunshine State will need a far higher level of SPF!
People Die in Sunshine is the carnival ride through the externally glamorous, but internally twisted lives of those two people, Frederick and Coco Rothenstein and their world; one most of us only know about from reading true crime stories and news accounts of the lives of the super-rich and entitled dwellers in the bastions of wealth and privilege where families such as the Rothensteins reign. The first four words of Gloria Nagy's scorching, ironic tale of greed, glamour, envy, avarice and the Janus headed coin of love and hate are: "Money. Money. Money. Money." What Ms. Nagy accomplishes in a work of humor, heartbreak, murder, and redemption reinforces those four words. A theme reflecting the world we have created that rises and falls with the same quite simple motivation that has driven every facet of human life since man stood upright. It is not the world we want to see, but it is the real world and where better to set a novel that is as much a social chronicle of our times as it is a gripping tale of the maze like search for a killer, than Miami.
The Miami of the twenty-first century, a glittering city in the sun which has become a symbol of the new American Dream--retirement ease, new beginnings or a haven for sketchy characters with dubious histories and too much money to spend. In a large cast of characters diverse in ethnicity, wealth, morality and status, Ms. Nagy shines her own unique sunlight on a cross section of this city of multi-cultural strivers and survivors, finding humanity in even the most flawed inhabitants of her singular human circus. This is a robust and tightly constructed romp through her slice of the sludge beneath the shimmering sand and as in all of her work, she sees and she sears.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When Miami, Fla., real estate developers Frederick and Coco Rothenstein are found murdered in the estranged couple's sprawling penthouse, investigators don't have to look far to find a flotilla of potential suspects in this fizzy cocktail of satire, suspense, and romance from bestseller Nagy (Remain Calm). In fact, so many people need to be questioned quickly within the glitzy Silver Sands condominium including the victims' two overindulged adult children and Frederick's current pair of eye-popping extremely personal assistants that detective Mikey Martinez deputizes the complex's head of security, Roy Rogers, who happens to be his recently retired Miami-Dade PD partner, to pitch in. For the most part, the story speeds ahead as narrated by the resident who unexpectedly catches Roy's eye, a self-deprecating single mom, but hits choppier waters with a subplot involving anti-Semitism as a possible murder motive. The surprising killer, meanwhile, will strike many readers as preposterous. Despite such faults, this smart, often sardonically funny page-turner should amuse fans of Hiaasenian hijinks.
