The Body Came Back

BEAUTIFUL … ALONE AND IN VERY BAD SHAPE

The tall, cool brunette had a weight problem. She had to get rid of the man in her bedroom. It wasn’t going to be easy-her hot-tempered automatic had made dead sure of that. But it had to be done … and fast.
She had to find someone understanding. Someone with guts who knew everything about Miami and enough about murder to keep his mouth shut. Someone like a private detective named Shayne.

A call from a killer sends Mike Shayne hurtling toward the brink A woman sits in the Encanto Hotel on Biscayne Bay, rationing a bottle of scotch and waiting for a call that could change her life. She clutches a marriage announcement that has chilled her to the core. At last, there is a knock at the door, but it isn’t the person she was expecting. Instead she is greeted by a man she thought dead, a man who tortured her for far too long. She offers him a drink and then presses a pistol to his chest and pulls the trigger until the clip is empty and her tormenter is dead. In a state of panic, she calls the only man who can help—Miami’s toughest private detective, Mike Shayne—and lies. She says her name is Carla, that the dead man is her husband, and that it was her daughter, Vicky, who pulled the trigger. She may think she knows how to play the game, but she’ll soon find that Shayne is a dangerous man to toy with—and he doesn’t stay fooled for long. The Body Came Back is the 47th book in the Mike Shayne Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.