E.C. Ayerss Hour of the Manatee won the St. Martins Press/Private Eye Writers of America award, and his subsequent P.I. novels, all with an environmental undertone, have garnered nothing but high marks from readers. In the fourth outing for Ayerss Florida P.I., Tony Lowell, the detective travels west to answer an urgent plea from his daughter Ariel. A good friend of Ariels, a Hispanic woman from Santa Fe, has disappeared and all indications point to foul play.
