Completely updated every year, Frommer's Florida 2011 features gorgeous color photos of the sights and experiences that await you. Author Lesley Abravanel lives and works in Miami as a gossip columnist for the Miami Herald, so she knows the Florida scene, what's hot and what's not, which restaurants the celebs frequent and sometimes own (and which establishments you might avoid for that very reason).
Lesley covers Florida's highlights from a resident's perspective...
Peter O’Nell, Montego High School’s favorite teacher, goes missing in the Bermuda Triangle, and the Miami Police can’t seem to solve the case. After an unusual Halloween party, three of his teenage students decide to investigate the case with the help of O’Nell’s dog, Rover. A ghostly appearance and strange clues lead Bill, Michelle and Nick to the popular wax museum, to O’Nell’s old home and to a millionaire’s yacht. But the truth behind O’Nell’s disappearance is incredibly macabre... A thrilling mystery filled with spine-tingling events, and solved by three determined teenagers.
Elmore Leonard - Be Cool A sequel to Get Shorty, Be Cool offers another instalment in the career of Chili Palmer - originally a Miami loan-shark, but now a big-shot in Hollywood. This time, Chili wants to get involved in the music business.
The tough Cuban-American crime reporter, Britt Montero, is back and investigating a series of bizarre deaths. With a dying detective as her friend and source, Britt probes the unsolved sex murder of a small girl which may implicate the rich and powerful front-runner in the governor's race.
Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug and alcohol disaster. Ann DeLusia is Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', standing in for Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. But, one night, Ann-as-Cherry is mistakenly kidnapped from a Miami hotel by an obsessed paparazzo named Bang Abbott.
