Flamingo Lane

Chase is a hitman with hippie roots, disillusioned by life and stung by love—and his next hit is the woman who hurt him. Taking on such a personal job isn’t without complications, though. As he closes in on his victim, Chase struggles to find the meditative edge that normally makes him so deadly.

Faye Lindstrom escaped a life of captivity and addiction in Quintana Roo, Mexico, but she can’t flee the woman she has become. For now, she holes up in Crooked River at an isolated farmhouse owned by an old friend, the reclusive novelist William Dieter. But that safe haven will only last until the end of summer, assuming the violence in her past doesn’t catch up to her first.

For lovers of Southern noir, Flamingo Lane is a gritty, cat-and-mouse pursuit that launches from an island off the Yucatan Peninsula and races through the cornfields of Indiana to a small town on the Florida panhandle. This standalone sequel ventures into ever more haunting territories of revenge and redemption begun in Fever Tree.

Tim Applegate’s poems, essays, and short fiction appear in the Florida Review, the South Dakota Review and elsewhere. He is also the author of several poetry collections, including At the End of Day (Traprock Books) and Blueprints (Turnstone Books of Oregon). He lives in the foothills of the coastal range of western Oregon.