A fast-paced thriller set on Florida's Gulf Beaches, "On the Whispering Wind" combines sharply drawn characters, insightful narrative, and a plot with more twists and turns than a two-lane coastal highway. In "All the Little Birdies," readers met taxi driver Jake Murdock. Murdock's taken a few wild rides with his sometimes bizarre passengers on Florida's steamy Gulf beaches. When Murdock's former girlfriend-cab driver Cassidy Andrews-finds a corpse in a Treasure Island condominium, and the dead man is the son of a famous televangelist, Murdock finds he's in for another wild and possibly fatal ride, "On the Whispering Wind." Blending the madcap zaniness of Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen with the lyrical poignancy of James W. Hall and Randy Wayne White, "On the Whispering Wind" is evocative Florida noir. | On the Whispering Wind by Dan Allison, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters