Randy Wayne White
1) Haunted
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 3
Description
The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the place when he unloaded it, including its role in a bloody Civil War skirmish (in which two of Hannah's own distant relations had had a part), and the suicides--or where they murders?--of...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 6
Pub. Date
1999
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Description
Florida marine biologist Doc Ford receives a call from the daughter of a dead war buddy whose widow has disappeared in Baja in the company of a man who brings death in his wake.
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2003
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Description
"We'll drop anything we're doing [for] a new Randy White novel and be glad we did." (Denver Post)
Randy Wayne White's ninth Doc Ford novel starts out as a fun excursion for four divers off the Florida coast. Two days later only one is found alive - naked atop a light tower in the Gulf of Mexico. What happened during those 48 hours? Doc Ford thinks he's prepared for the truth. He isn't.
Randy Wayne White's ninth Doc Ford novel starts out as a fun excursion for four divers off the Florida coast. Two days later only one is found alive - naked atop a light tower in the Gulf of Mexico. What happened during those 48 hours? Doc Ford thinks he's prepared for the truth. He isn't.
4) Deceived
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 2
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Description
A twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pothauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of Hannah's friends and neighbors in Sulfur Wells are being pressured to make contributions. The problem is, the whole thing is a scam, and Hannah discovers that the museum scam is a front for a real estate power...
5) Deep blue
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 23
Description
"Doc Ford has long lived a double life. This time, it may finally have caught up to him. The electrifying new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author. "I'll make an example of someone close to you." On a moonless night on Sanibel Island, Florida, marine biologist Marion "Doc" Ford carefully watches a video of a hooded man executing three hostages. The man is an American working with ISIS, and in the next few days, it'll be Ford's job,...
6) Fins
Author
Series
Sharks Incorporated volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
313 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
The world's shark population is in trouble for a sad, simple reason: shark fin soup. And although it's illegal, poachers have been targeting Florida's biannual migration of blacktip sharks. Marine biologist Doc Ford needs some assistance protecting the sharks and enlists the help of three kids, Luke, Marta, and Sabina. Together they form Sharks, Inc. and are given an important assignment: to set out each day on their small fishing boat in hopes of...
7) Stingers
Author
Series
Sharks Incorporated volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm.
Description
While in the Bahamas with Doc Ford, who is investigating invasive lionfish, Maribel, Luke, and Sabina find precious artifacts but outlaws learn of their find and come after them.
8) Shark river
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 8
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xii, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Randy Wayne White is a journalist, veteran fishing guide, and author of several nonfiction collections. He also creates superb, best-selling suspense fiction. His novels have received the highest praise from Library Journal and Booklist, and from authors like Carl Hiassen, who says, "Randy Wayne White takes us places that no other Florida mystery writer could hope to find." Marine biologist Doc Ford is spending two easy weeks on luxurious Guava Key...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xviii, 297 pages ; 17 cm
Description
Fifteen years after a young girl unearths an ancient gold medallion and then mysteriously dies, Doc Ford investigates strange occurrences at the girl's home and concludes that a dangerous person is determined to find the medallion.
10) Chasing midnight
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 19
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Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
11) Seduced
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 4
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Description
"Hannah Smith returns in the stunning new adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series by the author of the Doc Ford novels. A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble....
12) Deep shadow
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 17
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Description
Thirty minutes into what should have been a beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends. Ford escapes and surfaces to find help... but that's when his troubles only begin. The two men waiting for him on the shore are murderers and ex-cons, intent on uncovering the remains of a legendary plane wreck supposedly loaded with Cuban treasury gold.
13) Night vision
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Series
Doc Ford novels volume 18
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When a local teen from a trailer park being targeted by powerful developers witnesses their hired gun committing a murder, her only hope for survival falls in the hands of Doc Ford and Tomlinson, who undertake a search through the underground in the hopes of finding her first.
14) Gone
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 1
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Description
This author has long been known for suspenseful plots, complex characters, and an extraordinary sense of place. His new series has them all, and then some. Hannah Smith, a tall, strong, formidable Florida woman, the descendant of generations of strong Florida women. She makes her living as a fishing guide, but her friends, neighbors, and clients also know her as an uncommonly resourceful woman with a keen sense of justice, someone who can't be bullied,...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 24
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xix, 329 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Description
"The ghosts of a 1925 multiple murder stalk Doc Ford in the electrifying new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have suffered a bizarre series of attacks, and Barlow is convinced it has something to do with a multiple...
16) Bone deep
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 21
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 362 pages: map ; 24 cm
Description
When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson's asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along--but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they've let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous primarily for two things: a ruthless subculture of black-marketers who trade in illegal artifacts and fossils, and a multibillion-dollar phosphate industry whose...
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 3
Pub. Date
1997, ©1993
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 18 cm
Description
Doc Ford spies on a women in a boat; his uncle discovers the Fountain of Youth; the National Enquirer prints the story; and, the law comes after him while looking for three missing men.
18) Caribbean rim
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 25
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xx, 310 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Description
"Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in the thrilling new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like this. His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its...
19) Captiva
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 4
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
Former government agent-turned-marine biologist Doc Ford finds himself unable to maintain his neutrality when a battle between Florida's sport and commercial fishermen escalates into arson and murder.
20) Everglades
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 10
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Meeting a former lover whose husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead, Doc Ford investigates the woman's suspicions of foul play and finds himself deep in the Everglades.