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Boca Mournings [Hardcover]

Steven M. Forman (Author)
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February 2, 2010

"Part Robert Parker, part Carl Hiaasen, Eddie Perlmutter is a high testosterone, no-nonsense detective with a tender core, and makes turning sixty a carnal, tropical ride." --Andrew Gross, bestselling author of The Blue Zone, on Boca Knights 

Since he arrived in sunny Florida, Eddie has survived a run-in with the Russian mafia and tangled with Boca’s own family of neo-Nazis. But crime and punishment in the land of the Early Bird Special is complicated. The Russians have fled . . . but their evil lingers on; and though the neo-Nazis’ junior thug is guilty, punishing him is a lot more complicated than Eddie thought it would be when he caught the little creep harassing decent folks in the name of white supremacy. And that’s just Eddie’s unfinished business. Helped by a reformed computer conman, he’s busier with new cases than he was in Boston, ranging from a mysteriously haunted elevator to a double kidnapping. He’s got cases with trails as far as Russia and Israel. Retirement, my foot.

Good thing he didn’t retire from matters of the heart . . . because the women won’t let him. Between his amorous adventures and his burgeoning sleuth business, the twists and turns of Eddie’s life make this an edge-of-your-seat, uproariously funny thriller . . .


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Cybertheft, neo-Nazi thugs, Russian mafia, inconsiderate and incompetent doctors, and a bitter dispute among condo owners keep retired Boston cop Eddie Perlmutter busy in Forman's enjoyable, episodic second crime novel (after Boca Knights). Having been diagnosed years earlier with compulsive explosive disorder, the vigorous 60-year-old is now more intent on salvaging or redeeming miscreants than punishing them. Eddie's reputation and his new PI agency in Boca Raton, Fla., bring him lots of intriguing cases, which he solves or resolves in often ingenious ways. Eddie, who still fights to control his temper, is capable of busting a nose, but mostly he devises retribution that merits the phrase poetic justice if rehabilitation fails. While Forman's sense of humor can be childish (as in Boca Knights, Eddie talks to Mr. Johnson, his penis), he deals with such serious issues as anti-Semitism, gay rights, and health care with more insight and sense than most genre authors. (Feb.)
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While many who grow long in tooth and gray of head look forward to moving to the Sunbelt and filling hours with shuffleboard and bingo, Eddie Perlmutter, retired from the Boston PD and relocated to tony Boca Raton, occupies his time rounding up hate-crime-committing Aryan thugs whom the bungling local force, unused to actual bad guys, fail to track down. Dubbed the Boca Knight in the first book in the series (Boca Knights, 2009), one-man-vigilante Eddie has now added random acts of altruism to his résumé (that and a lover half his age). He fills potholes left untended by a city-county jurisdiction squabble, busts cybercriminals and then finds them jobs, and even shows compassion for the offspring of an Aryan nudnik. His real challenge, though, is to find out what happened to an aging gay couple who went suddenly missing. This novel is long on clever dialogue and character development. Mystery readers of all stripes will like what they find here. --Steve Glassman

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (February 2, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0765319888
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765319883
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #469,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Originally from Boston Steve Forman has been wintering in Boca Raton since 1992. After 45 successful years in international business he wrote his first novel, Boca Knights, published in 2009 by Tom Doherty Associates. The sequel, Boca Mournings, was released in 2010, his first e-book, Eddie the Kid, was published November 22, 2011 and Boca Daze will be published in January 2012.
Steve is a graduate of UMass, class of '63. He is married to Barbara Forman and is father of two children and five grandchildren.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Boca Mournings, May 2, 2010
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Eddie Perlmutter, after his sparkling debut in "Boca Knights," makes a welcome return in Steven M. Forman's new novel. Eddie is still working as a pi in Boca Raton, this time having to deal with a widow with dementia, a neo-Nazi father and son, the apparent disappearance of a gay couple, and his own prostate problem. And that's just skimming the surface of this laugh-out-loud funny novel.

Eddie describes himself as "one of Boston's most decorated policemen from 1966 to 2000, but now I was just a sixty-year-old retired cop living in Florida. I was five feet seven and weighed slightly over my fighting weight. I was in great shape for an antique." He had been dubbed The Boca Knight by an area news reporter, becoming a local hero and mini celebrity and inspiring others to call themselves Boca Knights, living by the principal, as Eddie says, of being "willing to fight for everyone's right to live in peace." Widowed for many years, he is famously determined to live an uncommitted life, despite his fondness for his much younger Haitian-born girlfriend.

Eddie refers to his new place of residence as Broken Heights, where "murder is rare and rape is ninety percent below the national average," but, as Eddie points out, "so is consensual sex." He enters into a strange partnership with another senior citizen improbably named "Louie Dewey" - don't ask. There are references to scenes from the original Depression and some ensuing years, with all seemingly loose ends tied up completely and very satisfyingly by the book's end. Without doubt the author has a wacky sense of humor, but neither he, nor his protagonist, is without sentiment, and along with the broad smiles elicited by the writing were, I am unashamed to admit, some tears. The book more than lives up to the challenge presented by the follow-up novel to an excellent beginning of the series, and this one is just as highly recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, April 14, 2010
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Both of this author's "Boca" books are absolutely hilarious, although you really do have to know Boca Raton and South Florida to truly get all the humor. I thoroughly enjoyed both books and hope the series continues. I compare him to Carl Hiassen and that's an honor!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Boca Mournings, December 24, 2011
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Thoroughly enjoyed Steve Forman's 2nd novel, Boca Mournings. He has a gift for making me laugh while enjoying the tales of Eddie Perlmutter. Have ordered Boca Daze and Eddie The Kid and can't wait for them to arrive.

The best way to describe his writing style is comfortable.
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