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START WITH HAT CHECK – A TROY BODEAN THRILLER

There’s a killer on the loose in the sleepy South Carolina island town of Pawleys Island.

A roguishly handsome yet reluctant hero and a cast of the most memorable characters you’ll ever meet collide in this zany and raucous tropical thriller by David Berens.

Rambling beach bum, Troy Bodean, is the new owner of an outback tea-stained, straw cowboy hat with a colorful peacock plume. He found the unlucky hat in an abandoned aluminum fishing boat and decided the smell of Old Spice and lack of an owner made it his for the taking. Little did he know there was a misplaced cashier’s check hidden inside.

Unbeknownst to our hero, he’d attracted a whole bevy of killers out to kill him when he put the hat on his head. From Daisy Mae and Ellie Mae Gallup, the mothers of Troy’s alleged love child, to the bumbling New Zealander assassins, Darren The Body McGlashen and Man’Ti, to the most Böhring, yet shady mill CEO in the business… they all have one thing on their minds—get that hat.

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SECRETS OF THE DEAD – SHORT STORY

What started out as a Funeral Services degree has turned into something she never expected…

Cassidy Carmichael was like any other girl. Any other girl who formerly worked as a cocktail waitress at Tail Spinners strip club, found a dead body in an AirBnB while working there as a maid, and who dropped out of her funeral services degree to return months later and find her spot taken by another student.

What’s a girl to do?

Switch to forensic pathology and find that she has a real talent for learning the secrets of the dead.

Cassidy Carmichael just can’t catch a break until her new degree changes everything. Read all about it in the prequel to the The Cassidy Carmichael Thriller series. You’ll fall in love with Cassidy, you’ll wonder how she solves all those crimes, and then you’ll hope to hell she survives for another adventure.

If you love Janet Evanovich, Sue Grafton, and J.D. Robb, you’ll LOVE Cassidy Carmichael! Grab your copy today!!

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GATOR BITE

A mobster-chomping gator. A drifter on a rampage. One or both is coming for Troy!

There’s a surly mama gator terrorizing the quirky island town. She’s killed a mafia boss’s son, a cross-dressing dancer from Key West, and a Fantasy Fest tourist all in one week. The feds and a nosy, local journalist think it’s the work of the infamous Cowboy Killer—wanted for a murderous rampage up and down the coast.

Leave it to Troy Bodean to get tangled up in this mangrove of a mess and become the scapegoat for all the dead bodies piling up. Yup, you guessed, it, everyone thinks he’s the notorious killer in the hat.

If the reporter catches him, he’ll be on the front page.

If the authorities catch him, he’ll go to jail.

If the Caparelli Mob catches him, he’ll be at the bottom of the gulf in a pair of concrete shoes.

But none of them will get him if the gator gets him first.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Berens has traveled up and down the East Coast and has been a tourist at every beach from Key West to Pawleys Island.

Today he calls Knoxville, Tennessee home, but constantly dreams of sun and sand and ocean breezes. He has a beautiful little girl, and a rambunctious little boy who remind him daily of why he is alive.

A constant reader of Florida Fiction, Dave has enjoyed the likes of Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, Randy Wayne White, Wayne Stinnett, and Leonard Elmore just to name of few. So, when he decided to create a series of Island Thrillers, he did his best to capture that zany quality so many of these amazing writers use in their work.

Someday, he hopes he’ll be able to enjoy writing his books with a view of the ocean…

David Berens