The Queen of Florida
A Crime Novel
$29.75
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
30 December 2026
Summary
A wickedly entertaining romp featuring retired widow June who delves into the deep underbelly of paradise — Boca — to get everything she knows she deserves
June has spent a lifetime tending to the infinite needs of her four children, especially the youngest, Jimmy, who was the black sheep from the very beginning and who has dragged her down to hellish places she never expected or wanted to go: court, rehab, prison. After Jimmy’s latest relapse, June makes a break for it. She …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770416826 |
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| ISBN-10: | 177041682X |
| Author: | Jeff Bercuson |
| Publisher: | ECW Press,Canada |
| Imprint: | ECW Press,Canada |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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“What a great debut! I enjoyed it immensely: idiosyncratic and assured, detached and violent, humorous and brutal. From the strip malls to children’s playgrounds, from gated communities to tent encampments, from beach clubs to low-rent insurance offices, The Queen of Florida captures the Sunshine State in all its technicolor contradictions. Jeff Bercuson’s Delray Beach is located somewhere between Paul Auster’s New York and Elmore Leonard’s Miami. I look forward to many more novels from this bright new talent.” — Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, author of the Patrick Bird Mystery Series“In the sun-soaked underbelly of Florida, lowlifes and schemers collide in a wild, relentlessly unpredictable crime caper. Fans of Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, and Elmore Leonard, take notice: debut novelist Jeff Bercuson has arrived with a voice that’s both clipped and utterly original. This bizarre, laugh-out-loud tale spins from bad to worse, cementing a fresh, audacious new talent in crime fiction.” — Dietrich Kalteis, author of Dirty Little War
About The Author
Jeff Bercuson
Jeff Bercuson was born and raised in Toronto, where he lives with his wife and two children and teaches in the School of English and Liberal Studies at Seneca Polytechnic. For the longest time, he wanted to be a philosopher, and he wrote two books trying to prove that he was one. Then he realized that we get much closer to the truth by making up stories. The Queen of Florida is his first novel.
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