title: Murder in Miami: A Mackenzie Scott Mystery (The Mackenzie Scott Mysteries)
author:  Kathy McKenzie-Runk 
description: Award winning author of the Writers Digest 80th Annual Competition  Children/YA category. for Flight to Freedom, inspired by the adoption of a Vietnamese orphan in the 1970s. Also finalist in the Writers Network of South Floridas contest, childrens category for A Dolphins Tale. Kathy sold her first article when she was eight years old to the York Junior Dispatch, a publication in her community that encouraged children to write. Retiring to Florida, Kathy wanted to leave a legacy for her ten children, all the grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. "And Baby Makes 9" is a memoir of her life, through eight adoptions, sponsoring a family of nine Vietnamese, two birth children, fresh air children from New York City, and fostering numerous boys and girls throughout the years. Her first two novels for adults in the Mackenzie Scott Mysteries, Blood Ties: The Souvenir Killer and Murder in the Caribbean, were released earlier this year in both paperback and e-book format. Current projects include the fourth book in the series, Murder at the Zoo, and a True Crime novel in 2013.
zlib_text: Synopsis
  
  Silence is deadly.
  
  The murder of eighteen-year-old Angie Vance was exceptionally vile — her mouth
  was sealed with glue, an obscenity was scrawled across her skin, and she was
  suffocated in a garbage bag.
  
  The killing seems personal, so police detective Carina Kincaid focuses her
  efforts on the victim’s much older ex-boyfriend, Steve Thomas. But without
  physical evidence, Carina can't make a collar or a case. She also can’t stop
  Sheriff Nick Thomas, the prime suspect’s brother, from conducting his own
  unwelcome investigation.
  
  Though Nick is still scarred and unsteady from a recent confrontation with a
  serial killer, he’s determined to prove his brother’s innocence. But his
  confidence is shaken when he learns of Steve’s dark side, and when a friend of
  the murdered girl meets a similarly gruesome fate. With no time to lose,
  Carina and Nick work together to trap a psychopath, before another unlucky
  woman faces an unspeakable end.
  
  Evil has spoken. Now see what it can do.
  
  Speak