The Secret of Rosalita Flats
Tim W. Jackson
File Size : 1374 KB
Publisher : Devonshire House Press (September 18, 2020)
Word Wise : Enabled
Print Length : 211 pages
Language: : English
Publication Date : September 18, 2020
Cal's a hapless watchmaker. Marina's a beautiful scuba instructor. They were friends as kids. Now, not so much. Together they'll solve the secret of Rosalita Flats. If the sharks don't get them first.
The Secret of Rosalita Flats is about a man trying to unload the football-shaped house he inherited, while dodging the backwater Blacktip Island's quirky collection of con artists, smugglers and other ne'er-do-wells: an ornery housekeeper who refuses to be fired, a rum-soaked attorney with his own agenda, a chair-wielding resort manager who thinks he's an avenging angel, and a self-styled psychic who may be able to see the future. There's also a mysterious someone--or something--trying to scare Cal off the island. Cal has to figure out what his old man was mixed up in, fast, if he's to sell the house and get off the crazy little rock alive.
Written with Hiaasen-esque humor, The Secret of Rosalita Flats is a beguiling mystery for anyone who's ever dreamed of chucking it all and running off to the Caribbean. From the author of the award-finalist Blacktip Island.
Review: The Secret of Rosalita Flats Tim W. Jackson
It's written that Aristotle suggested that the real secret to humor is surprising.
I tend to agree with this and once in a while, I am drawn to a quirky mix of recklessness. Team this with a read that discusses an appreciation for an island adventure by way of tacked-up maps and nautical charts and you have The Secret of Rosalita Flats.
I received a copy of this book through the generosity of the author.
About the Author
Tim W. Jackson’s first taste of scuba diving came at the age of six when he sneaked breaths off his dad’s double-hose regulator in the deep end of the pool. Later, as an ex-journalist armed with a newly-minted master’s degree in English, he discovered he was qualified to be a bartender, a waiter, or a Ph.D. student. Instead, he chose Secret Option D: run off to the Cayman Islands to work as a scuba instructor and boat captain by day and write fiction at night. Two decades later, he still wishes that was half as interesting as it sounds. Or even a quarter . . .
Jackson is the award-winning author of the comic Caribbean novels Blacktip Island and The Secret of Rosalita Flats, as well as The Blacktip Times humor blog. His “Tales from Blacktip Island” short stories have been published in literary journals worldwide. He is currently concocting his next Blacktip Island novel and still enjoys scuba diving with his dad’s old double-hose reg.
For more insider info, visit his website, www.timwjackson.com, the Blacktip Times (www.blacktipisland.com) or follow him on Facebook (Tim W. Jackson) and Twitter (@timwjax).