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"I've seen some crazy
things in Key West, but Michael Haskins' Free Range
Institution beats it all. People leaping from buildings, and
hanging from trees...angels who tell the future and enough
drugs and corruption to destroy the entire Key. Try to keep
up, because things happen at breakneck speed!"
-- Don Bruns, Stuff To Spy
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I'm hooked!
Mad Mick Murphy is a quixotic character in an exotic setting.
Key West offers him crimes to solve, eccentric people to
confound his journalistic ambitions, and life-threatening
adventures to entertain readers.
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Shirrel Rhoades
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This is my first Mad Mick
Murphy book and I love it. Mick reminds me a little of Travis
McGee what with the way he gets involved in things and helping
friends. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
... Nora-adrienne Deret, GoodReads.com |
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Free Range Institution, the sequel to Chasin'
the Wind, is available now. Read a
few chapters.
Let me know what you think.
Chapter 1 :
Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
Chapter 4 :
Chapter 5 :
Chapters 6
Chapter 7
Check
back with us for updates on this book!
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If you are
considering ordering Free Range Institution
online, please consider your local independent
bookstore first. If you like books, you should be
aware of how many independent bookstores have
closed in the last year. Most of the independent
bookstores have websites that you can order from
and if not, you can call them and place an order.
I hope you will consider this before going to the
major online bookstores.
Here are
websites to stores I shop:
Key West Island Books, Key West, Florida
(also offering signed copies)
Murder on the Beach, Delray Beach, Florida
Murder by the Book, Houston, Texas
The Mysterious Bookshop, New York, NY
Book Carnival Bookstore, Book Carnival,
Orange, CA
Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, CA
This is a
website with links to independent bookstores and
you can see if there is one close by to you.
Independent Mystery Booksellers Association
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Scott Kirby & Michael Haskins
I'd
like to thank and acknowledge local singer-songwriter
Scott
Kirby for writing the song, Free Range Institution, that
gave me the idea for the title.
A fingerstyle guitarist and
singer/songwriter, Kirby's musical style weaves from pop, to
acoustic rock, to what he refers to as "beach folk." His
lyrics are often storytelling in nature, much in the vein of
Steve Goodman or Jerry Jeff Walker, and reflect the humor of
someone who fled traditional New England for the laid back and
zany lifestyle of America's southernmost island town. A
reviewer from The Musician's Trade Journal writes, "Kirby's a
storyteller. Sometimes sentimental, sometimes hilarious, but
all with insight, depth and wisdom … you can't help but like
this guy's music." Frank Quatrone, of Ticket Magazine, writes,
"His writing can be engagingly literate to elegantly simple …
the whole place was laughing and singing along to his
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Thank you for checking in and please keep coming back for
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Order Your Copy of Free Range Institution from
Barnes & Noble or
Amazon.com
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