Novelist Sharon Kant-Rauch unleashes her chops as a former police-beat reporter in “One Precious Life,” (Apalachee Press) a murderously and deliciously detailed unwinding of how a corpse ends up in a park in the Nenes
Yes, it’s that neighborhood of winding trails known otherwise as Tallahassee’s Indian Head Acres where Kant-Rauch’s North Florida Mystery is set, and where she’s lived for 30 years. Her clues spell such familiarity with the Nenes that readers who happen to live nearby might start looking over their shoulders for signs of mayhem afoot.
Kant-Rauch enjoyed the thrill of creating her first volume of dead-man prose so much that she is now at work on a second mystery to be published by Apalachee Press of Florida. The book launch for “One Precious Life” takes place from 3-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, at Midtown Reader, 1123 Thomasville Road.
It, too, will feature Maria, newly divorced in her 60s, living in a camper in the driveway of her best friend, Theresa, not entirely settled, and frankly unable to contain her driving need to know.