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Books
`The Serenoa Scandal`
A prominent South Florida rancher is murdered in cold blood in his wife’s arms. The DEA raids her beloved Serenoa Ranch and seizes her property. The harassing phone calls start—again. For Maya Menecal, her idyllic life is thrust into a horrifying nightmare.
Puttnam Jorgenson, the editor of the local newspaper in the small town of Sabal Springs, Florida comes to the rescue, inviting his close friend and former DEA agent, John Spyer, from Maui, Hawaii to join him on a twisting and turning investigation into conspiracy, political corruption, and murder—all designed to conceal a deadly secret that could tear a community and an entire state apart.
This strongly character-driven page-turner is sure to delight all true Mystery-Suspense aficionados. Sara Williams’ characters leap off the page and into your hearts. Her intricate story is woven from the threads of the true-crimes and scandals she investigated and reported as a journalist.
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"The Serenoa Scandal is a fascinating blend of murder and mayhem, of love and loss, and human drama played out against a backdrop that ranges from Florida's cattle ranches to the New York Commodities Exchange. Sara Williams is a gifted writer who writes smoothly, silkily against either background. This is a book you don't want to put down and when you've finished the last page, you want more."
Prudy Taylor Board
Author of Murder a la Carte
The first in the Recipes for Murder Series
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A timely novel that says much about Florida politics, big money, and a landscape that supports both sugar and cattle as well as intriguing characters who reflect a portion of Florida's diverse heritage.
Richard Fadem, Ph.D.
Professor of English, Emeritus
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Read the story behind The Serenoa Scandal.
`The Don Juan Con`
This complex and ever-twisting thriller is torn from the headlines of actual events, an all-too-common crime that often goes unreported and unpunished. In The Don Juan Con a flamboyant swindler calling himself Anthony Abruzzi wines and dines unsuspecting women from one end of the country to the other, seducing them into marrying him within days of meeting him. Yet just before the lavish whirlwind weddings are to take place, he disappears, absconding with whatever assets, meager or mighty, his victims possessed.
Yet when he makes the mistake of jilting and bankrupting Angie Reynolds, a designer living in DeLeon, FL, his fortunes are about to be reversed. With the help of police detective Joe Vensure, Angie meticulously hunts Anthony down, following his trail of broken-hearted and devastated victims. She is further shocked to discover that not all of his marks were merely jilted -- some are dead. It becomes a race against time itself when she discovers that her own mother may be his next victim. And nothing can prepare her for learning the mysterious secret of her own past that started it all.
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`Novelist Sara Williams delivers a thriller as compelling as the romantic legendary Don Juan himself. Sara’s sharp dialogue and succinct word pictures put you in the middle of a first-rate suspense novel showing what a woman can do with a proper mind set. Sara Williams is a superior new stylist who is charting her own course.`
Barbara Oehlbeck
Renowned Columnist and Biographical/Historical
Author of The Sabal Palm
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"Williams paints a vivid portrait of a slimy-but-fascinating antagonist readers will love to hate."
Ad Hudler
Author of Southern Living: The Novel
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"We choose the wrong partners to punish ourselves. That's the Don Juan Con. Here is a modern retelling of a classic theme in fiction."
Richard Fadem, PhD
Literature Professor Emeritus
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The Don Juan Con is a breathless page-turner, filled with twists and surprises, rich in setting from a small town in Florida to the archipelago islands of the Pacific Northwest. Don't miss it!
Read the story behind The Don Juan Con.
©Copyright 2008 Sara Williams
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