Murder at Wakulla Springs: A North Florida Mystery

by M.D. Abrams

Actress Lorelei Crane and Detective Homer McBride team up again to investigate murder at Northwest Florida's famed Wakulla Springs. In this book, following Murder on the Prairie, Lorelei is at risk for her life. It's all about the water!

285 pages, Paperback

First published October 3, 2006

Reviews

[Tonya Townsend · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story kept me on the edge of my seat! It was a great story!

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very awesome, old florida mystery accurately depicting the politics of the state and environmental threats. Fun to read!!! I did not put it down.

[Gwendolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Author needs an editor! Seriously. There were at least two typos on the first book, in this, the second, the editing or lack of it was downright distracting. Interesting characters and plot. Local color seemed a little forced compared to first book (Prairie) where it felt natural, not added in. Probably because Gainesville FL is her home turf. I read this book first and enjoyed it enough to find the first one, which I enjoyed more. Unlike some authors who repeat themselves book to book so that a reader of one book has all the info and a reader of the whole series could cite the summary of each character by heart (and can safely skip entire paragraphs of the first chapter), Abrams resists the summarizing and allows the characters to reveal themselves in their own way (through the narrative of the heroine) over the course of each book. I really appreciate that. This isn't a spoiler but I was surprised that major stuff happened between Prairie and Wakulla.

[Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this in the little bookstore in Apalachicola while on vacation. I bought it because Wakulla Springs is a favorite place of mine. I did enjoy all the local color and information about environmental threats to the waters of north Florida. The story was interesting, but the editing was dreadful and spoiled my enjoyment of the book. There were numerous grammatical and spelling errors, but the worst was when a character was called by two different names, once even on the same page! You would think the author herself would have caught that one. I'm a librarian, so I guess I'm a stickler for such things, but I found it extremely annoying.

[Robert Vandiver · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't expect much in that we picked it up as a local book on a lark. The book was better than expected.