When Dillon Storm's grandfather invites the gang to a "living memorial service" for himself over in his beloved vacation spot of Vero beach, Florida, Dillon thinks it's a strange idea. Funerals are for the dead, and his grandfather isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Still, if it's what the old man wants, who is he to turn him down?
When the daughter of Vero Beach's police chief goes missing along the shoreline though and a man Dillon believes to be innocent is fingered for foul play, things take a turn.
Now, at odds with local law enforcement-including a mismatched pair of officers who seem as intent on condemning the seemingly innocent man as Dillon is of clearing him, the Naples detective finds himself in a place that makes him very uncomfortable; the wrong side of the law.
Enlisting help from surprising sources, Dillon soon finds a surprising connection to a woman he investigated for a crime years ago, up in Chicago; one of the most enigmatic and dangerous people he's ever known.
Will Dillon be able to convince the Treasure Coast's Finest that he really is on their side, or will he find himself behind bars for obstruction of justice as he digs for the truth in a place where the rest of the world is digging for buried treasure?
When the priest he's known his entire life is run down on the streets of Naples, Detective Dillon Storm sets out to get to the bottom of who was behind the horrible hit and run. The deeper he gets, though, the more he realizes it might not have been an accident, and that the truth might lead him down a rabbit hole he'll never escape from. In the end, Dillon Storm will have to travel away from the home he loves to a whole new Floridian terrain if he ever wants to learn the truth.
Dark secrets hide in deep waters, but when it comes to Naples, sometimes the truth came be found up the coast and across the sound.
After twelve years away from his coastal Florida home, Detective Dillon Storm is only now getting his sea legs back. When he pulls the body of a woman from the gulf while on an impromptu fishing trip with his nephew, Dillon thinks things couldn't get stranger. When that body is identified as a woman who was pronounced dead three years ago, he realizes how wrong he is.
Now, with little more to go on than a gut feeling and the years' old files from a case that couldn't be colder, Dillon will put his skills to the test as the truth of what happened to the this woman introduces him to new friends and enemies, takes him deeper into the underbelly of sun-soaked Naples than he's ever been before, and thrusts him to a part of the Gulf Coast he's never dared venture.
And when an explosive connection between the dead woman and his half brother Peter is revealed, things promise never to be the same.
Detective Dillon Storm is about to be pulled far from the shore . . .
Detective Dillon Storm is headed back to Naples for the first time in a dozen years, and the occasion is not a happy one.
The illegitimate son of the richest man in America's richest city, Dillon spent his entire life in the shadow of a family that would never accept him.
Now he's come to bury the man who neglected him and in doing so, put that part of his life behind him forever.
But the past has a way of sticking around, and things don't stay forgotten in sun soaked Florida for long . . . even when they're buried.
When the lawyer dealing with his father's estate is murdered and Dillon's number is found on his phone, it sets the detective on a path that will unearth family secrets, bring long gestating scandals to light, and expose a murder that will change everything Dillon thought he knew about his past forever.
There are bodies in these swamps, and it'll take just the right kind of Storm to give them justice.
The whole world now knows of the existence of the World Under, thanks to fallout from the terrible events in Omaha a year back. As the World Under's most effective foe, Kal Hakala performed actions that were both heroic and horrific. Now, sidelined as an Agent, he serves the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation as its public face, charming talk show hosts and training new recruits known as "Green Peas." However, the World Under never rests, and events force Kal back into action. A malevolent spirit occupies St. Louis's Quint Building, and the team sent in to combat it disappears after their leader is driven to suicide. The BSI has no choice but to send in Kalevi Hakala and his team to solve the problem. As each of the individual members of Kal's team is isolated and dumped into his or her private hell, Kal begins to wonder if he hasn't finally met his match: the most powerful force the World Under has to offer. Book 6 in the From the Files of the BSI series.
Arthur Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of human thought. He was convinced that the space and time of ordinary life is an illusion, that the world consists of two aspects: representation (visible appearances) and will (hidden reality). Will is a unitary, blind, irrational force underlying all nature and expressing itself throughout it. Since human actions are blindly propelled by this will, not reason, prescriptive ethical rules have little force. Our will to live is a continuing cycle of want, temporary fulfillment, and more want. New desires replace any satisfied ones, so no lasting happiness is possible.
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