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Bone Island Mambo:

Starts fast and never lets up. Corcoran’s plot and range of characters add to a series that won’t quit. Treat yourself to an exotic setting, laughs, and suspense.”             - Janet Evanovich

Concise and breezy… the Key West tourists rarely see. Alex Rutledge should be attracting more fans to his laid-back lifestyle, which always includes a murder or two.                              
 - Otto Penzler (Penzler Pick, May 2001)

Corcoran has a feel for the laissez-faire Key West style, and knows how to meld island history into his stories.                                                                         - Booklist

BONE ISLAND MAMBO by Tom Corcoran
Key West-based mystery, starring Alex Rutledge
Hardcover release, May 2001
St. Martin’s Press / Minotaur
$23.95 ISBN: 0-312-24281-6
Mass-market paperback release, August 2002
St. Martin’s Press / Minotaur $6.95 ISBN: 0-312-98008-6

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Corcoran lubricates his tangled plot with lashings of rum and beer and keeps it moving across a shrewdly observed landscape… The gumbo is spicy, the limbo is swift in this hot pepper of a novel.
                - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review), August 9, 1999

Tom Corcoran delivers a well-plotted, atmospheric mystery that even surpasses his superior debut, The Mango Opera. The author keeps a good balance in Gumbo Limbo between the weird and the reality…[and] brings a vivid imagination to the Florida mystery fold.
                        - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, September 1999

…plenty of offbeat characters and subplots to keep the action moving. The story even jumps from Key West to New Orleans, probably the only other suitable environment for this quirky Florida mystery. If you liked [The Mango Opera], be sure to grab this sophomore effort. It is better than the debut, high praise.
                                                             - Bookline, August 1999

Palm trees and murder. It’s an irresistible combination for a mystery writer, and readers. It’s the classic stuff of what film critic Roger Ebert has called “Florida noir.”
                                          - Lakeland Ledger, September, 1999

GUMBO LIMBO by Tom Corcoran
Key West-based mystery, starring Alex Rutledge
(Original Hardcover release, September 1999)
Mass-market paperback release, November 2000
St. Martin’s Press / Minotaur $6.50 ISBN: 0-312-97570-8

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Tom Corcoran served me my first beer in Key West at the Chart Room Bar over twenty-five years ago. Now he has put his “time on the water” to great use and has produced a book that reconnects my heart and brain to the Key West that I knew as an unknown bar singer. Was it a kinder and gentler place? Hell, no, and that was the best thing about it. The Mango Opera is about as accurate a description of those days as there is around today.
                                                                           - Jimmy Buffett
 
The Mango Opera is a powerful debut novel full of juicy characters, crackling dialog and thrill-a-minute action. Not since McGuane’s 92 in the Shade has Key West been rendered so vividly and with such spare poetry. Tom Corcoran is the real thing – a novelist with a mature voice, a powerful vision and a great ear for the rhythms of human speech. This is a smart, exciting novel, one not to be missed.
                                                                          – James W. Hall

Tom Corcoran means business. This new thriller isn’t a laugh-a-minute lightweight to grin at while awaiting your next—but surely not last—rum runner. You won’t think of Key West as quite so laid-back again.
                                                                     - The Miami Herald
 
The genius of imagination and the genius of realism don’t often take up housekeeping in one writer’s skull. But Tom Corcoran has combined a viciously creative plot with a perfect description of Key West as it really is, and the result is good to the bone.
                                                                           – P.J. O’Rourke
 
The Mango Opera is a very engrossing novel. It drew strongly on me and I was totally submerged in it. As an old Key West hand I wondered about the underbelly of a city that used to be all underbelly, and Corcoran deftly evokes the spirit and physicality of the place, the low tide jubilance and enlivening fetor of its pleasures and instinctive criminality, as if the sun and ocean had blasted all the flowers of evil into its very genes.
                                                                            – Jim Harrison
 
Tom Corcoran knows the foul reaches of Key West and so do I. This is an evil book about an evil place. Don’t read this book if you have a tendency to wonder where your daughter is on long rainy nights.
                                                                – Hunter S. Thompson
 
Alex Rutledge should be investigating Key West for years.
                                                     - Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
 
The Mango Opera leapfrogs over many first-time novels to put Corcoran solidly in the company of the likes of Laurence Shames and Robert Crais. Readers will shout a resounding ‘Bravo!’ at the end of The Mango Opera. Tom Corcoran is off to a very fast start on what is sure to be a long career as a fine mystery novelist.
                                                                                 - BookPage
 
The Mango Opera, with its tropical setting, fruity characters, and hard-boiled dialogue, is a delicious treat.
                                                          - The St. Petersburg Times

THE MANGO OPERA by Tom Corcoran
Key West-based mystery, starring Alex Rutledge
(Original Hardcover release, May 1998)
Mass-market paperback release, September 1999
St. Martin’s Press / Minotaur $6.99 ISBN: 0-312-96988-0