Rodney Riesel
Rodney Riesel, long-time resident of Herkimer, NY, was a husband, father of three, and established contractor when he began a career in writing. Rodney has shared his creativity and love for the beach in his Tales of Dan Coast series taking place in Key West, FL with such books as Sleeping Dogs Lie, Ocean Floors, and Coasts of Christmas Past, and his N. Myrtle Beach, SC based mystery, North Murder Beach, A Jake Stellar Novel. Now he continues his coastal living theme in The Man in Room Number Four.
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From the Tales of Dan Coast Series
From Book 1:
A mystery set in the Florida Keys, Sleeping Dogs Lie, is the first installment of the story of lottery winner turned private detective, Dan Coast.
Dan, a wise-cracking excessive drinker, is haunted by the memory of his dead wife. Short after the two won the lottery and purchased a small beach bungalow in the Florida Keys, her life was taken in a car accident. Soon after his wife's death, Dan relocated to the Keys with his wife's dog, whom he blames for her death.
In Sleeping Dogs Lie, Dan Coast, an unlicensed private detective of sorts is hired to find the missing boyfriend of a woman who herself soon ends up missing. When someone from the woman's past unexpectedly shows up at Dan's home, with a story of faked deaths and missing life insurance money; Dan along with his side kick Red set out to find the money, and the woman.
