Review: Cocoa Beach

Cocoa Beach Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Florida's a land of smugglers, land speculators, gamblers, desperadoes and settlers. It was at the beginning, it is now, and it was certainly the case during the Jazz Age. Until a devastating hurricane and the crash of the stock market slowed its fevered growth, Florida was the destination for re-inventing yourself.

Cocoa Beach has all of that, and more. It's a real page turner, full of secrets and hidden identities and characters who are not what they seem. The setting was also part of the story, the heat and humidity and insects part of the age before air conditioning and mosquito control make the peninsula habitable.

I'm going to look for more books by Ms. Williams, and if they're as good as Cocoa Beach, I'll add her to my list of authors to look for.

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