Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Crime & mystery fiction

SEDUCED

Randy Wayne White

Hannah Smith returns in the stunning new adventure in the New York Times–bestselling series. 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. The trees are dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic manipulation, and the only solution might be somehow, somewhere, to find samples of the original root stock. No one is better equipped to traverse the swamps and murky backcountry of Florida than Hannah, but once word leaks out of her quest, the trouble begins. “There are people who will kill to find a direct descendant of those first seeds,” a biologist warns her—and it looks like his words may be all too prophetic.

This is the fourth Hannah Smith novel, after Gone (Putnam, September 2012), Deceived (Putnam, September 2013), and Haunted (Putnam, August 2014).

Randy Wayne White is the author of three previous Hannah Smith novels and twenty-three Doc Ford novels, most recently Cuba Straits and Deep Blue. A veteran fishing guide, White lives on Sanibel Island, Florida.

Available products
Book Published 2016-10-18 by Putnam
Book Published 2016-10-18 by Putnam

Comments

Strong-willed and tough-minded, fishing guide and sometime PI Hannah Smith returns [to] bring a fresh perspective to White’s much-loved Southwest Florida world.

It’s Smith’s gutsy, no-nonsense attitude and fierce loyalty that gives the story its heart. White’s evocative descriptions of life on Florida’s Gulf Coast, both human and animal, win this series its rightful place in the ever-popular Florida crime fiction genre.

Her fourth outing may be her best to date, with a particularly effective climactic sequence that knots together every menace, and every sorrow, she faces.

Hannah Smith is a big woman, tall and strong, a fishing guide and a part-time investigator. She traces her Southwest Florida family back generations—the area’s history is hers as well. She is a perfect foil for Doc Ford. Each is reliable, steadfast, boat- and weather-savvy, and neither can pass up a wrong that needs righting.