Dark Light

Randy Wayne White does Sanibel and Pine Island Sound proud with his novel Dark Light, #13 in the Doc Ford series.  Now I’ve loved Randy’s work since I came across it almost a decade ago in a small downtown bookstore in Fort Myers, but it’s been a while since I’ve picked up another book in the series, and my time for reading has been so compressed of late, it was a joy to tote this book through airline terminals and the Ozarks as a way to wrap each evening. With a storyline that is firmly fixed on his local stomping grounds, and a genuine sense of post-hurricane trauma (I know, I saw what happened to Pineland just a few weeks after Charley), this book is highly charged with suspense. I love the intertwining of history, of the rich and famous, industrialists and authors, who were a major part of Sanibel and Fort Myers during the 1930s and 1940s.  If you haven’t read a Doc Ford novel yet, you’re missing out.