Friday Memes: Just Another Day in Paradise by A. E. Maxwell

 Happy Friday everybody!

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Beginning:

Like the rich, California is different. But not that different.

Friday 56:

We don't keep secrets from one another very well. When things feel good, we say so. It makes for a complicated relationship, but what's life without a few well-chosen complications? Dull, that's what.

This week I am spotlighting a book from deep in TBR Mountain. I bought Just Another Day in Paradise by A. E. Maxwell February 25, 2009. It was originally published in 1985 and is the first in the eight-book Fiddler and Fiona mystery series. 

Here is the description from Amazon:

When you say paradise, I think snakes. Maybe that’s because I live in the slice of paradise known as southern California’s Gold Coast. And maybe it’s because I spend my time killing other people’s reptiles.

So I wasn’t too surprised when my ex-wife and sometime lover, Fiora Flynn, came to me because Danny, her beloved dunce of a twin brother, was in trouble.

What did surprise me was the kind of trouble he was in. The killing kind. Complete with the FBI and international spooks.
I didn’t think Danny boy had it in him.

The good news is that unraveling Danny’s snarl brought Fiora back to me. The bad news….

Well, there’s always bad news, isn’t there?