Missing in Paradise

“I love the Mark Daniels Mysteries. As an old newspaperman I like following the adventures of a fellow reporter turned novelist as he takes on murders from Michigan to Key West. Justin Maxwell knows how to write ‘em!”
- H.L. Osterman, author of Walter the Weirdo Solves a Murder

Mark Daniels is a retired newspaper reporter turned mystery writer. He and his wife Sherry escape Northern Michigan’s weather and spend the winters in the Florida Keys. They enjoy the sun, warmth, tropical ambiance and most of all the lack of snow. They’re invited to the Gangster Gala, a Keys area hospital fund raising event, where Mark meets an elderly gentleman with one foot firmly planted in the past. The man tells Mark his ex-wife is missing and asks for help locating her. Finding the man interesting, and a possible character for a future novel, Mark offers to ask around about the woman missing in paradise. The investigation leads Mark through the lush tropical islands, meeting a cast of colorful locals and an amusing assortment of snowbirds and tourists. But as the search for the man’s missing ex-wife intensifies … the bodies begin to pile up.

Justin Maxwell is the pen name of Wayne “Skip” Kadar. He taught at the high school level for several years then moved into school administration as a high school principal. After 16 years in school administration he retired. In retirement he worked as a harbor Master at a marina on Lake Huron and researched and wrote ten historically factual books about the Great Lakes region; books about true crime and about ships that lie on the bottom of the freshwater sea.