The White Heron, A Florida Keys Mystery

“This the second book in the Florida Swamp Guide series … and I’m hooked!”
- Maryjane Elizabeth Jones, The Unwatched Kettle

“Carl and Jane Bock have given us a sleuth who knows his way around the Everglades, a zoologist names Sam Sawyer. And this time around he needs to call on his swamp guide skills as he searches for the missing director of the Florida Keys Bird Observatory.”
- Nicolas Gilmartin Teranzi, Online Critics Corner

In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the Director of the Florida Keys Bird Observatory has gone missing, along with his boat. Zoologist and fishing guide Sam Sawyer joins in a hunt for Frank Alvarado that takes him from the wilds of the Everglades backcountry to an uninhabited island where he makes a gruesome discovery. Along the way Sam encounters nefarious characters who may have wanted Frank’s disappearance to be a permanent one. Was it a team of shark poachers engaged in the illegal harvest and sale of shark fins? Or was it an ambitious co-worker hoping to take exclusive credit for the biggest ornithological find in Florida in more than a century?

Carl and Jane Bock are retired Professors of Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Carl received his PhD in Zoology from the University of California at Berkeley, while Jane holds three degrees in Botany, a B.A. from Duke, an MA from the University of Indiana, and a PhD from Berkeley. Carl is an ornithologist and conservation biologist. Jane is a plant ecologist and an internationally recognized expert in the use of plant evidence in criminal investigations. Now largely retired from academic life, the Bocks have turned their creative efforts toward fiction writing, and are co-authors of two ongoing series, the Arizona Borderlands Mysteries and the Florida Swamp Guide Mysteries.