The Case of the Miami Philanthropist: The Fairlington Lavender Detective Series

S.N. Bronstein

Mar 2010 · AuthorHouse

About this ebook

In this novel, the first in The Fairlington Lavender Detective Series, S.N. Bronsteins main character is Fairlington Lavender, a retired cop who is working as a private investigator. Lavender is an enigma. He is often arrogant, sometimes foul mouthed, and always devious and unconventional as he meticulously works toward solving a case. Yet, when Lavender suspects that a politically connected, wealthy, entrepreneur, Mr. Kendall Somers murdered an eighteen year old girl, Lavenders insights into the dynamics of psychology, sociology, and social psychology become apparent. He advances into the lives of his antagonists like a philosopher-gumshoe. His friend Al; Sherry, his former supervisor at the police department; the reprobate Dean Powell; and Somers all become witness to Lavenders ability to intersect inductive reasoning, instinct, and old school detective work into the effort to solve a murder. Along with these traits, Lavender adds the additional ingredient of a total disregard for the procedural limitations that restrain his peers at the police department. The Case of the Miami Philanthropist is a great diversion for a rainy day that affords the reader a fast moving detective story, written in a unique style unlike most conventional thrillers. The book will be hard to put down. Its a page turner from the minute Lavender meets Al and Powell at the county jail, until the murderer is finally apprehended.

About the author

S.N. Bronstein was raised and spent his adult life in South Florida. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees from state universities in Florida, he spent thirty five years as an educator with the Miami-Dade County Public School System. During the course of his public school career he worked as a teacher, counselor, administrator, and truancy investigator. He retired from his career as an educator in 2008 and began writing The Fairlington Lavender Detective Series, a collection of fiction novels based on the adventures of a Miami Beach private investigator. In addition to The Case of the Miami Philanthropist, a second novel in the series, The Case of the Miami Blackmailer, has been completed. A third novel in the collection is now a work in progress. He currently resides in Arlington, Virginia with his wife Dawn and cat “Nugget,” and devotes his time to writing.