Virgin Heat by Laurence Shames

Virgin Heat by Laurence Shames

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A comic crime novel set in Florida. A mafiosa's daughter leaves New York to track down her lost love, a man who betrayed her father and is now working as a bartender in Key West. She is joined in her search by a parole officer, a jealous mobster and other underworld figures.

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Virgin Heat by Laurence Shames

The natural sucessor to Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiassen joins Orion with a hilarious tale of love and the Mafia in Key West. For ten years Angelina has kept a secret so deep, so personal, that she couldn'tshare it with anyone. She is in love. In love with Ziggy Marxx the man who betrayed her father, Mafia capo Paul Amaro. Ziggy is living a new life as a bartender in Key West but when Angelina spots his oh-so familiar hands making a cocktail in a holiday video taken by her uncle she leaves New York to seek him out. Paul Amaro, just out of prison, is dismayed by her disappearance. He's more dismayed when it's suggested that Angelina may have gone in search of her lost love.
Laurence Shames was born in New Jersey and started out as a crime reporter. He then moved to the vibrant home of crime in a hot climate, Miami and becamea reporter there. He now writes novels full time in between travelling around
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ISBN 13 9780752812021
ISBN 10 0752812025
Title Virgin Heat
Author Laurence Shames
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1997-07-21
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.