‘Dutch Uncle’ is part of the ‘Hard Case Crime’ series that is reprinting older pulp novels and brand new ones. This is a new one that was first published in 2005 and still available in stores. The locations is primarily in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Other locations involved are Sunrise, Gainesville and Orlando.

Author Peter Pavia has begun an extremely promising writing career with a top notch read of what most face in South Florida: Various varieties of crime. Pavia does a great job of laying out the various characters and their thought processes. The story then bounces from one to the other each with their own view of various situations in the book. This is very well done. The plot seems to be heading to a cliff,,,and maybe it does and maybe it doesn’t. That makes another interesting turn in the writing: You draw your own conclusion. The way it is all written, you care enough to find out. Well done!