The 3% Rule: A Suncoast Noir Mystery (Circle of Tides Detective Series)

Ray Spooner's three-percent recovery commission taught him that the answers are always in the overlooked-and it built him a quiet, salt-stained refuge on his Venice Beach dock to retire to. He wanted nothing more than to turn wrenches on his trawler, The Residue, and let the corporate greed he fled dissolve in the humid Florida heat. But when the luxury sportfisher The Silver King goes down in the coastal waters of Sarasota, his refuge is threatened. The telemetry is wiped, the owner is missing, and the official report claims it was an accident. Ray knows better. To protect the home and community he fought so hard to find, Ray is dragged back into the high-stakes salvage game. In the sweltering heat of a Gulf coast summer, he must conduct a forensic audit of a sunken wreck, navigating corrupt commissioners and a lethal shadow network. Armed only with his analog tools and a lifetime of expert cynicism, Ray must find the truth hidden in the final three percent of the wreckage-or lose his home forever.