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Bahama Burnout

Don Bruns
Oceanview Publishing (2009)
ISBN 9781933515205
Reviewed by Enid Grabiner for Rebecca's Reads (6/09)


On what appears to be an idyllic getaway island lies a murky underside.  Nassau is the home of Highland Studios owned and run by Jonah Britt and wife Rita.  Jonah, by reputation is one of the best musical sound directors, is reopening his renowned recording studio after it was destroyed in a mysterious fire resulting in a tragic and questionable death. Can he recreate the former success and glory of creating rock and roll legendary albums or will he be plagued by speculation of events past?

The band, Johnny Run, returns to Highland Studios to tape a new album to christen the event. Jonah can’t afford failure. Last time he was too busy to personally engineer for them and hired Bobby Baron, another sound man, who was less than up to the job. The result was disastrous, but was it the music, the engineer, or the manager to blame?  Now, with a new manager and new music, they are willing to give Jonah a second chance.

Mick Sever, Bruns’ recurring character, is an old friend of Jonah’s and an entertainment journalist sent to report on the event.  Mick realizes that this is not quite the positive story about which he hoped to write.  He finds Jonah and Rita at the point of desperation. Plagued by the haunting of a mysterious ghost who perhaps is the victim of the arson fire, a stolen guitar, missing items and moving furniture, they are ready to bring in The Obeah Man, an African spiritualist, who could perhaps commune with the spirits and break the spell of bad luck.  Mick becomes more than just an observer as he is embroiled in center of the action.

Replete with a crusty old Cadillac believed to be Elvis’s, crazy neighbors, threatening investors, inept police, murder, drugs and arson “Bahama Burnout” by Don Bruns proves to be a delightful mystery.  As a reader, one must first follow the cocktail recipe that prefaces the book of the same name, grab an easy chair and then immerse himself in the Bahamanian landscape of this fun mystery.                                 

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