Sunburn

Written by Laurence Shames

Narrated by Richard Ferrone

Listeners across the country have fallen in love with Laurence Shames' rollicking national best-sellers set in South Florida. Energetic, forceful and unpredictable as a hurricane, Sunburn is filled with off-beat characters, top-notch suspense, and colorful dialogue. When aging Mafia godfather Vincente Delgatto flies to Key West to get a little sun, he decides to write his memoirs. When word of the book hits the street, everyone is in danger, even the octogenarian former enforcer Bert the Shirt and his cranky chihuahua.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456125332

Reviews for Sunburn

[hagelstein_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

One of Shames' Key West novels featuring Bert the Shirt d'Ambrosia, known for his beautiful shirts and constipated chihuahua. Shames is adept at setting a scene and describing people and places. A "dull, coarse, and sluggish" mobster pays an unexpected visit to his non-mobster brother and stands "glutting the doorframe like a feed-lot steer." The sky over lower Manhattan is "the swirly, smeary white of paint that needed mixing." Shames creates characters that come alive and have staying power.

[susandennis-139327 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Joey Goldman and the rest of the cast (well, the ones that lived anyway) from Florida Straits are back! I love them all so I was delighted to dive into this new adventure where Joey's father - the Godfather - decides to write his memoirs... other members of The Organization aren't real thrilled. Shames paints the most incredible detailed pictures. I'm going to try and hold off his next one Tropical Depression until it comes out in paperback in a couple of months... if I can.