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Title: Sea of Bones

Author: Ron Faust

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A shocking novel of greed, deception, and murder among the Gold Coast elite who can afford anything - even the darkest of desires. Dan Shaw hopes to be a lawyer someday - if he can only stay out of prison long enough to pass the bar. Neither is likely when he agrees to help hotshot Florida attorney Thomas Petrie track down a slick con man whos swindled a consortium of well-to-do Paradise Key clients out of $22 million. But the charismatic Victor Trebuchet and his sexy partner in crime are a lot more dangerous than anyone imagined. And the silken counter-sting set up in an Italian villa to snare the couple may end up trapping Shaw instead. With that much money on the line, anyone is liable to betray anyone. But in the meantime, Shaws living the high life and hes in way over his head. Soon he may find himself doing hard time - or worse - in a watery grave at the bottom of Bell Harbor.

Ron Faust is the author of 14 previous thrillers. He has been praised for his "rare and remarkable talent" (Los Angeles Times), and several of his books have been optioned for films. Before he began writing, he played professional baseball and worked at newspapers in Colorado Springs, San Diego, and Key West.

Critic Reviews:

Faust tells a thrilling story in lean, tight noir prose The mystery of the flawed, complex Shaw and his past, duly unraveled by the end, adds another layer of excitement. (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

A skimpy plot buried in flowery language

There's no doubting the fact that Ron Faust can write; he has a descriptive, muscular prose that has caused more than one reviewer to compare his style to Hemingway. That being said, I'm sorry to admit that out of the 4 books I've read by him, I've only enjoyed one and it wasn't Sea of Bones. The book starts out with an unusual hook; the narrator has killed a man and buried the body in the ocean, and he watches with interest as several other characters attempt to find the body. As the story goes on, however, we find out that these events are part of a previous book involving the same characters and have nothing to do with this book or its plot. Instead, the plot of Sea of Bones involves a talented con-man who has ripped off several wealthy people for millions of dollars. The narrator and a small group of his friends plan an elaborate scheme to turn the tables on the con-man and rip him off instead. While the plot is somewhat interesting if not highly original, we don't get into the meat of the story until roughly 150 pages in. Instead, we are given lengthy details of dinner parties and other social functions along with pages and pages of clever dialogue and other padding which does nothing to advance the plot and instead bogs the book down so heavily that I found myself falling asleep after reading only 4 or 5 pages. While the ending of the book was somewhat exciting, slogging through 340 pages of fluff to get there was almost like torture. For a fast-paced, exciting and literary thriller, read When She Was Bad by the same author, and leave Sea of Bones on the shelf where it belongs.

strong susepnse thriller

In the well to do enclave of Paradise Key, a group of wealthy investors lost over twenty-two million dollars in a ponzi scheme perpetrated by Victor Trebuchet and Adrienne Debarret. British Lord Warfield had the investors eating out of his hands as he enthusiastically endorsed the satellite, rocket and launch pad site in Kenya.