Book set in Florida, Deep Dirty Truth by Steph Broadribb

Submitted: 18th November 2018

Deep Dirty Truth by Steph Broadribb is a thriller set in and around Florida.

From Tallahassee to Miami, from the Everglades to the long winding highways of Florida state…it’s a thriller with bite, grit and attitude

If you love your thrillers with punchy dialogue, a break neck speed and unrelenting action, then this is the book for you. It’s set in Florida, all over in fact so the thrill of the chase is there from the word go.

And it deserves a post of its own for its sheer energy and the brilliant third episode it brings to an already nail-biting series. Lori Anderson is THE bounty hunter/all- round crime fighting, no nonsense hero that you need in your crime fiction life.

Deep Dirty Truth Step Broadribb

Lori Anderson might be a single mom but that doesn’t stop her being a bounty hunter. This time she’s got a job in the state of Florida to sort out before she can start to have any sort of normal life. The mob want her dead but she’s told if she hunts someone down, she gets to live. Oh and the guy in question is due in court in less than 48 hours where he’ll likely talk about the mob…

A hunt across Florida ensues. But what do you do when your bait could be as deadly as the chase itself?

Lori how I have missed you! At the start of the book, things seem to be working out for her at last. Life is getting as near to normal as it can be when you’re a bounty hunter that is. JT is back on the scene and Florida life is treating them well.

But…
” I never saw it coming. Got totally blindsided. That’s the God’s honest truth.”

That’s the first line in the book but it’s also a good summing up of my review of this book to be honest! Totally didn’t see how it would play out and where Lori would take us next. But what a ride that was! Totally worth the sweat I worked up whilst reading, travelling fast with Lori and spending the time of the book on the road and in the humid Everglades.

Lori has a job to do in tracking down someone the Mob want back. Someone who used to work for them and who is now ‘helping’ the FBI in proctective custody. Lori gets the job if she wants to stay alive….

I don’t know who is more scary – the Mob, the man Lori is looking for or the aligators who swim alongside the boat as they are chasing a trail in the Florida everglades. Tell you what – the scene setting here is superb. I have been to the everglades and felt the fear, heat, humidity and heard the whir of the engines. All brilliantly brought to life here.

The brilliant thing with Lori is that she really has her work cut out and her characters tested in ways not many women especially in books are. I even admired one of the mob in a way for his gritty determination and role in the whole episode. The character development of a man we don’t really see until later on in the book is brilliant – we know him as Lori does even before we see him.

The Florida heat, the role of the bountyhunter and the alligators really ramp this thriller to the next level. Add the Mafia, the FBI and well, it skyrockets.

Normal life whilst reading this book is hard to deal with. Humdrum compared to what happens in Deep Down Dirty!