About the AuthorI was born and raised in Florida and now live in Tennessee. The South is as much a main character in my books as any of the people that populate them. From dirt roads in Alabama to coastal fishing towns in the Florida Panhandle, the south is so wonderfully filled with atmosphere and interesting people that I don't really see any reason for my writing to leave home. I write the occasional literary or women's fiction book, but my time is focused right now on The Forgotten Coast Florida series. This series, set in Apalachicola, FL, is a noirish suspense series, dripping with atmosphere and flawed, human, witty characters. The first four books in the series have an overarcing story that isn't resolved until book four (Landfall, releasing at the end of July 2015), but also subplots and mayhem and overall sinister dealings that are resolved in each book. The first four books are a foundation for the rest of the series, which will serve more as standalone novels. Whether you're reading See You or one of the Forgotten Coast books, you'll find they have in common dry humor, a good deal of atmosphere and characters who are people, rather than caricatures. I love these people, from 90-year old Creole nanny Miss Evangeline, to the droll and honorable Jack Canfield, to strong but damaged cop Maggie Redmond, and even the hilariously inappropriate and dangerously charming bad guy, Bennett Boudreaux. I hope that you'll meet them all, and love them all as I do. how do you are read books on goodreads What Washes Up (The Forgotten Coast Florida Suspense Series) (Volume 3)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Southern Charm at its Finest!!By Wayne Stinnett, Author of the Jesse McDermitt Caribbean Adventure SeriesI pre-ordered this book immediately after reading the first two in the series and it popped up on my Kindle just after midnight last night. I really need to get some sleep now. You have a pretty woman police detective who is attracted not only to her boss, but also the town criminal mastermind. You have bodies all over the beach and not the good kind. Just when you think you have things figured out, Dawn Lee throws a curving slider and you're left scratching your head wondering how you didn't see it coming. I like Southern books by Southern writers, particularly the Florida variety, it's what I write. This series is just dripping with small beach-town Southern charm, like a stately coastal oak covered in Spanish moss. Now, I have to go back to waiting again. WRITE FASTER!!2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. I'm following this series with great interest! As a John DBy hopeinalI'm following this series with great interest! As a John D. McDonald, Randy Wayne White and Wayne Stinnett fan, this author's books are right up my alley. And as an avid reader who has been known to peruse the back of a cornflakes box if no other reading material was handy, I'm pretty hard to please. The Forgotten Coast series has lyrical writing that is descriptive without going overboard (no pun intended) and a truly thrilling story line with well developed characters. Anxious to read the fourth and last book in this series, Landfall.Also want to mention for those who haven't found it for themselves yet that Ms. McKenna's first book, See You, is a literary gem of extraordinary brilliance, especially for a new author. It isn't in the suspense or mystery genre, but it's a gem of the first order full of slightly flawed but still lovable characters who are even more believable interesting because the author hasn't tried to make them perfect. Characters in books who are presented as perfect are perfectly boring. That isn't the case here. Read it, you'll love it.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Another great read, too short for 5 starsBy Douglas BrownLove the series, with the locations and characters both believable and addictive. I note some reviews (and in this book, the author herself) invoke Jamie Lee Burke. Although the series are both about murder mysteries, they are very different. Burke is very dark and invokes a dysfunctional and scary community. McKenna moves in the direction of the eccentricity of Carl Hiassen, although the topics are a lot more serious in the manner of John McDonald. This is mostly easy reading given that the genre deals with mayhem. Based on the first 2, I bought the rest of the series. Really the only drawback of this book is that it is so short that it doesn't really move the overall multi-book story along.