Bone Deep, (Paperback)

<p><strong>BONE DEEP</strong><br><em>A Whacky, Weird Florida Mystery</em></p><p>In Florida, even the dead don't stay buried.</p><p>Danny "Gumbo" Malone thought he was signing up for a simple recovery job-three stolen fossils, a quiet collector in Gainesville, and a tidy $500-a-day payday. Easy math.</p><p>Until he walks into a suburban house that's secretly a private Ice Age museum... and discovers the missing pieces aren't souvenirs.</p><p>They're black-market megafauna.</p><p>A near-complete mastodon skull.<br>A museum-quality dire wolf cranium.<br>Rare giant ground sloth vertebrae pulled from Florida riverbeds-illegal to own, priceless to collectors, and worth killing over in the right market.</p><p>The client can't call the police.<br>The broker might be compromised.<br>And the deeper Gumbo digs into Florida's underground fossil trade, the more he realizes this isn't a random theft-it's a territorial war between rival supply chains moving millions in prehistoric contraband.</p><p>From the oak-canopied streets of Gainesville to the backroads of Ocala, from a Tampa parking garage briefing to a gravel-shoulder standoff with a lifted F-250 and a man who runs North Florida like it's his personal preserve, Gumbo finds himself caught between two powerful operators who both think the other blinked first.</p><p>He's just the guy hired to return stolen property.</p><p>They see him as a message.</p><p><strong>BONE DEEP</strong> is a sharp, stylish Florida mystery about greed, territory, and the strange economics of ancient bones in a modern world.</p><p>Because in Florida, the past isn't history.</p><p>It's inventory.</p>

• Bone Deep, (Paperback)
• Author: Chris Lowry
• ISBN: 9798233599521
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-03-04
• Page Count: 70