The Sunshine State

By Tim North

By day, he sells the cure. By night, he is the disease.

Florida, 1976. The Bicentennial flags are waving, the humidity is rising, and Ray Carlisle has a quota to meet.

To the doctors and nervous housewives of the Panhandle, Ray is the perfect pharmaceutical rep: clean-cut, charming, and armed with a trunk full of Valium and Librium. He is a man of systems, schedules, and corporate precision.

But Ray has a territory rule: Never soil the nest you sleep in.

Behind the wheel of his Ford Pinto, Ray operates a second, darker system. He stalks the drifters and tourists of the Sunshine State, treating murder with the same clinical detachment as a sales ledger. From the gray waters of Pensacola to the neon buzz of Key West, Ray leaves a trail of missing persons in his wake, protected by the jurisdiction gaps of a pre-digital world.

But when a routine cleanup in Fort Myers goes wrong, and a sharp-eyed detective named Frank Hobbs begins connecting the dots between sales routes and body dumps, Ray's carefully curated world begins to fracture.

As the summer heat intensifies and the paranoia sets in, the hunter becomes the hunted. Ray must complete one last loop through the state-not to sell, but to survive.

Perfect for fans of Dexter, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and the gritty atmosphere of True Detective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF7RT8K1
• ISBN13: 9798242779303
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"