SUSPICION OF MADNESS

Dutton, New York, 2003, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-525-94681-0.  Hard cover, 369 pages.  Unread copy; some shelf wear and remainder mark on bottom edge.  Dust jacket with price intact has a small spot on front panel.  ‘For attorneys Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana, spending a couple of days in a private villa on a secluded island in the Florida Keys seems almost too good to be true.  The innocent cliché hits home with a vengeance when a dangerously unbalanced former client of Anthony’s is suspected of a local murder, and then attempts suicide.  As an idyllic vacation turns into an escalating nightmare of terror and death, Gail and Anthony find themselves isolated among the strange and secretive islanders as a late tropical storm threatens to unleash its fury on them all.  Somehow, they must hang on to their sanity and use every weapon at their disposal to outwit a cunning criminal bent on plunging them into a world of deepening madness.’ (from front flap)