Treasure Key

“Just finished reading the Whodunit Award-winner Everybody’s Bar in Key West. Makes me want to read all the Bric Wahl mysteries by Wayne Gales. If you’re with me in this, start here – book number one in the series.”
- H.L. Osterman, author of Walter the Weirdo Solves a Murder.

Here, we meet former Navy Seal, Russell Bricklin “Bric” Wahl, the guy that every Key West local knows and every tourist wants to be. Relaxed, tanned by island sun and comfortable in his skin, he slides onto a barstool next to you at Schooner Wharf and lets you buy him a beer. Ex-Navy Seal, Key West native and full-time treasure diver, Bric has been searching for a fortune in gold and silver in the Florida Keys his whole life. Today he may have found it, but not the treasure he expected. Diving on a sunken Spanish Galleon, he finds three massive gold bars, not from the wreck that sunk in 1733, but apparently from the Civil War. Bric thinks he’s finally unearthed his fortune. Or has he?

A former Key West resident. Wayne Gales spent seven years there as a director in the hospitality business, where he spent endless hours in the Key West public library pouring over microfilm records of his families’ conch roots. Wayne currently lives in Melbourne, Florida with his wife Tina. He has published a series of five books, all a combination of contemporary and historical fiction with a Key West theme. A world traveler, Wayne has visited 24 countries on five continents and all fifty states. An avid fisherman snorkeler, gourmet chef, former classic rock and country guitarist, he has also raced cars, trucks and motorcycles in Baja and grew up as a rodeo cowboy. He has five children and twelve grandchildren.