Showing Bahamas West End Is Murder: A Ben Candidi Mystery (Ben Candidi Mysteries) by Dirk Wyle

About Bahamas West End Is Murder:

As vacationing Ben Candidi and Rebecca Levis sail through International Waters toward Grand Bahama Island, they receive a strange welcome—a sinking cabin cruiser with a dead man at the helm. Ben knows how to patch bullet holes below the waterline and Rebecca knows how to estimate time of death. And they agree that the West End marina is the right place to bring the body. To avoid trouble, they play it dumb and treat the cocaine-smuggling marina tenants as the divers and sport fishermen they are pretending to be. Unfortunately, the mailbox corporation in Miami that owns the yacht ignores Ben's $100,000 salvage claim—and the Bahamian police won't let him move the yacht to Florida. The harder Ben and Rebecca press their claim, the more sinister West End becomes. Should they cut their losses and run? Or is it too late already?

Editorial Reviews

Ben Candidi (Ph.D.) and his life partner Rebecca Levis (M.D.) find themselves in the middle of a bizarre murder mystery. A voyage in international waters turns ugly when the couple comes across a sinking boat, its only passenger ("Steve," they later learn) swimming in a pool of his own blood mixed with seawater. Together Ben and Rebecca repair the boat and bring it and the body to the West End of Grand Bahama Island. They are stuck there because the authorities won't release the broken boat to Ben--not the owner of record--and the actual owner back in Miami refuses to pay Ben's salvage claim. Ben and Rebecca are left to deal with the sordid characters on the marina--drug smugglers, tarot-card readers, and corrupt officials--as best they can while trying to solve the murder of "Steve." Wyle (the pen name of a retired biomedical scientist) blends scientific smarts with quirky characters in another fine outing in a too-little known series.
--Mary Frances Wilkens, Booklist, Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

About the Ben Candidi Mystery Series

The Ben Candidi Mysteries are medical murder mysteries in the police procedural genre. Protagonist Ben Candidi is a 30-something Mensa (organization for those with high IQs) member and a recent graduate of a South Florida medical school's pharmacology doctoral program. The mysteries are set in South Florida (Miami), the Caribbean, and South America.