Lew Fonesca series by Stuart M Kaminsky
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Overview: The series follows Lew Fonesca, a world-weary, 40-ish former process server with the state’s attorney’s office in Cook County, Illinois, Fonesca currently resides in Sarasota, survives on junk food, has an office above a Dairy Queen and is struggling to come to terms with the traffic-accident death of his wife by helping other people solve their problems.
1. Vengeance (1999)
Three years ago Lew Fonesca quit his job as a researcher for the State’s Attorney’s office in Cook County, Illinois. Jumping into his rattling Toyota and heading for Key West, Lew was sidetracked by fate when the car broke down in a Dairy Queen parking lot in Sarasota, Florida. After finding some friendly faces, Lew decided to stick around, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attorneys.. "But now one of the attorneys has found someone who needs Lew’s help: Carl Sebastian, a well-known local entrepreneur, is desperately seeking his younger wife, Melanie. He asks Lew to simply locate Melanie, working with some of her friends and acquaintances, so that he can have a shot at convincing her to come home.. "But after following up on a few leads, Lew finds that finding Melanie Sebastian is anything but simple. He’s being followed by a mysterious burly man, and Melanie’s friends’ theories only lead him in circles. With the help of a few dependable friends, Lew seems to be slowly closing in on Melanie – but will he find her before someone else closes in on her first? Someone with much more deadly intentions…
2. Retribution (2001)
Lew Fonesca is a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died; he wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida.
He now makes his way amid bail jumpers and lost wives, people who want to be found and those who will do anything to stay under their rock. He spends his days solving cases both big and small and trying to get by, while attempting to figure out how to make the rest of his life make sense.
3. Midnight Pass (2003)
Lew Fonesca is a guy just trying to get along. When his wife died in a senseless auto wreck, he got up and left his old life–and when his car gave out in sunny Sarasota, Florida, he stayed. He takes small process-serving gigs and various odd jobs helping people out, and he tries, although maybe not as hard as he should, to fix the gaping hole in his heart.
But for a man who just wants to ease through life without any complications, Lew has a pretty full plate. The shrink that Lew’s been seeing for more than a year wants him to finally dump all the grief that he’s carrying around so he can have more than a half-life. And Sally, the pretty single mom and social worker who has helped Lew in the past, wants to deepen their friendship. On top of that, a local minister asks him to find a town council member who has gone missing just before a crucial vote that could ruin a struggling community, and a distraught father comes to Lew to track down his wife and two kids, who Lew suspects ran off with the man’s best friend.
When people start showing up dead, Lew knows he’s in way over his head–and this time he may not be able make it all come out okay.
4. Denial (2005)
Lew Fonesca is a man who does things for people. He finds deadbeats, errant spouses, and generally keeps the populace of Sarasota on the up-and-up. Now Lew is faced with one case that will try his patience .. and another that may break his heart. The first involves an elderly woman who swears she’s witnessed a murder in her old-age home despite the fact that everyone she tells her story to all tell her that it couldn’t have happened. The other has Lew trying to find out the identity of a hit-and-run driver who killed a fourteen-year-old boy. This task dredges up old memories and a lot of pain. As Lew begins to dig deeper into both cases, he finds they are linked in ways he can’t hope to untangle.
5. Always Say Goodbye (2006)
Four years ago Lew Fonesca’s wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine.
Life’s a sneaky mistress, though, and has a way of suckering you into caring. Lew’s found that he’s really good at helping people get out of bad situations. That he matters. And Lew’s therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him that unless he’s willing to leave the planet, it’s about time that he goes back to Chicago and closes the door to the past so that he can finally get on with the rest of his life. Lew hates to admit it, but he’s beginning to see her point.
So Lew returns to his home town, to friends and family…and to a grief that threatens to engulf him. He’s resolved to dig until he finds out who killed his wife. In doing so, he’ll uncover both sweet and painful memories of his past. He’ll also confront a murderer who’ll not hesitate to kill again to make sure hidden secrets stay buried.
6. Bright Futures (2009)
Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the Man Who Makes Things Work in Sarasota, is once again faced with cases that try his patience and test his sanity.
A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed. A recent graduate of a public high school for the gifted is arrested for the crime and turns to Lew for help.
A semi-retired and much beloved singer of children’s songs is being anonymously pushed to leave Sarasota, threatened with exposure as a sexual predator. It is up to Lew to uncover the blackmailer and determine whether there is any truth to the accusation.
Lew has decided that life is worth more than just going through the motions. But will the good life that Lew so richly deserves elude him as he uncovers some very sad truths? His final choice–do the right thing and see his happiness evaporate… or betray a trust and stay happy.
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