Bones of Coral

Bones of Coral by Hall, James. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780440214533.

Like any big-city paramedic, Shaw Chandler had probably seen a thousand suicides. But he knows a murder when he sees one--and this time its his own father. Suddenly hes got a metal canister marked "U.S. Navy" in his hands, as hes dragged back to the crazed coral shores of his birthplace, sunny Key West, to explain it. There, two people from Chandlers past--an impassioned doctor harboring his own long-buried secrets and his seductive actress-daughter, Trula--hold the key to a bizarre environmental scam turned deadly. And as the snares of a suspicious trap of "suicides" close about him, Chandler confronts a deranged killer with a negative IQ, a knack for rhyme, and a genius for killing... and the psychotic mastermind behind the southernmost monopoly on death...