February 8, 2016
Set in 1974 in Fry’s Bay, Fla., this appealing first in a new series from Edgar-winner DePoy (December’s Thorn and six other Fever Devlin mysteries) introduces colorful Foggy Moscowitz, who once stole cars in his native Brooklyn. When Nurse Maggie Redhawk tells Foggy, who now works as an investigator for Child Protective Services, that addict Lynette Baker, a new mother, has fled the hospital with her sick baby, who needs medicine to survive, Foggy goes on a successful hunt for the baby. Later, members of the Tribal Council of the Seminole Nation take Lynette and her baby to their swamp. Foggy’s efforts to find the baby bring him into contact with a slew of characters, including Seminole sage John Horse, with competing interests. The baby is the key, and Foggy must figure out why before he can act. DePoy’s lively mix of Seminole history and the wry observations of a “Yankee Jew criminal” make for an amusing tale. Agent: Janet Reid, FinePrint Literary Management.

March 1, 2016

In 1971 car thief Foggy Moskowitz fled to Fry's Bay, FL, and reinvented himself as an investigator for Child Protective Services, trying to atone for his crimes in Brooklyn. Three years later, he gets a late-night phone call from his boss, who wants him to track down a missing baby taken from the hospital by her junkie mother. He finds the infant as well as mystical Seminoles, land-grubbing billionaires, and other interesting characters. VERDICT DePoy, acclaimed for his "Flap Tucker" (Dead Easy) and "Fever Devilin" (December's Thorn) mysteries, starts a new noir series that introduces a flawed man with a heart of gold. Foggy did a bad thing, and now he lives as though every day is Yom Kippur. Atmospheric and with a hero trying to be better than the circumstances in which he finds himself, this title will remind readers of Sharyn McCrumb's "Ballad" series and Rick Riordan's "Tres Navarre" books.

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March 15, 2016
Florida, 1974. Foggy Moskowitz, a Brooklyn car thief on the lam, has managed to wind up in the Sunshine State working for Child Protective Services (the how-he-got-there story is a little far-fetched, but just go with it). Sent out to find a missing babythe child was taken from the hospital, possibly by its drug-addicted motherhe winds up wading knee-deep in conspiracy and a target for murder. The novel is the first in a projected series, and it has a lot going for it: an appealing, offbeat protagonist; a wacky story line; and a real feel for '70s Florida. If further adventures of Foggy Moskowitz continue the Elmore Leonard vibe that DePoy has going here, you can expect this series to have legs.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

August 1, 2018
Foggy Moscowitz is a child protective officer in Fry's Bay, Florida. It's 1976, and Foggy's old pal Sammy Icepick Franks, a notorious hit man, leaves his mark on the little burg when he dumps a body in the bay. Foggy is called in because the two witnesses are both kids from the nearby Seminole reservation; they're in Fry's Bay looking for their mother, a maid, who has disappeared. Foggy decides to help the kids find their mother, but, since other maids have also disappeared, he suspects a trafficking ring preying on Native Americans. Though Foggy's on the right side of the law these days, before he arrived in Florida, he was on the lam from his native Brooklyn, where he was comfortable with a handful of felonies. Soon Foggy learns the body fished from the bay may be an old friend from Brooklyn. Has Foggy's old life traveled down the Eastern Seaboard? Now he's trying to deal with finding the kids' mom and figuring out what Brooklyn hit men are doing in town. DePoy is an Edgar winner, and the third entry in the Foggy series is a suitably quirky, moody, and often funny noirish exercise.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

July 23, 2018
Set in 1976, Edgar-winner DePoy’s amusing third Foggy Moscowitz mystery (after 2017’s Three Shot Burst) finds the Brooklyn-born former car thief and current director of Child Protective Services in Fry’s Bay, Fla., answering an early morning police call to come to the docks, where a dead man has been hauled out of the water. Foggy’s job is to interview two Seminole children—Duck, a boy of around eight, and Sharp, his slightly older sister—who spotted the body floating in the bay. Foggy befriends the kids, who are looking for their missing mother. At one point, Sharp tells Foggy: “We’re the only ones in the Panther clan with our unique... abilities. Duck can track. And I can kill.” Foggy begins a search for the mother, uncovering fraud, kidnapping, corruption, and madness along the way. Foggy’s friend John Horse, the leader of the local Seminole community, comments: “You realize that sometimes your diction is ridiculous”—to which Foggy replies: “It’s colorful.” This exchange pretty much sums up this socially conscious novel’s style: colorful fun, with a splash of irreverent wit. Agent: Janet Reid, New Leaf Literary Agency.

July 1, 2018
A tough Child Protective Services officer tangles with all kinds of miscreants in his efforts to help a pair of Seminole waifs.Florida, 1976. CPS bulldog Foggy Moscowitz (Three Shot Burst, 2017, etc.) tells the reader right up front that Sammy "Icepick" Franks has dragged a body out of the trunk of his Lincoln and tossed it in the bay. He also shoots a barking dog, which is where Foggy comes in. The crime(s) are witnessed by Little Cloud and Wonder Girl, a pair of Seminole children whose mother, Echu Matta, has gone missing. A cleaning woman at the Benton Inn, she hasn't come home for three nights. Battling racism from both the locals and law enforcement fills Foggy with a brittle righteousness that imbues his punchy first-person narrative. Along with Sharp and Duck, two hotheaded Native Americans, he resolves to ferret out the truth. The officious manager of the Benton offers the implausible story that a disgruntled Matta and two co-workers simply haven't been showing up to work in protest over their discriminatory treatment. Foggy is devastated when the dead body in the bay turns out to be that of Pan Pan Washington, his old pal from Brooklyn. Not coincidentally, Foggy and Pan Pan tangled with Icepick in Brooklyn way back when. The corpses pile up as Foggy, Sharp, and Duck head to Oklahoma to untangle the twisted conspiracy behind the killings and find the missing mom.The third installment of DePoy's franchise, which finds a compelling anchor in its sleuth, crackles with energy and a plot as twisty as a country road.

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August 1, 2018

It's the 1970s, and former Brooklyn car thief Foggy Moscowitz now works for Florida's Child Protective Services. In his third adventure (after Cold Florida and Three-Shot Burst), he helps two Seminole children, Sharp and Duck, whose mother hasn't returned home for three days. When Foggy investigates further, he learns that 27 other women from the same Seminole tribe, all employees of the ritzy Benton Inn, have disappeared. He tracks the women to an abandoned bakery, only to find Sharp beaten and in a coma. Foggy sets out for New York City and then Oklahoma with John Horse, a legendary Seminole. The trail becomes a complicated mess involving Foggy's old criminal connections in Brooklyn, crooked cops, fake FBI agents, census fraud, kidnapped women, and Seminole history and legends. VERDICT Driven by the flawed Foggy, DePoy's unconventional mystery combines fast-paced, violent action with dark humor. The atmospheric, open-ended story will appeal to fans of gritty crime drama and David Grann's nonfiction best seller Killers of the Flower Moon.--Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN

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