Crime fiction rooted in the tidal marshes and criminal underworld of coastal Florida.
Stories about men navigating love, family, violence, and loss in a world that keeps rewriting the rules.
The coast north of Jacksonville is a world of tidal channels and old money and older violence. I've been trying to write it honestly for a long time.
Michael Echevarria is a writer and educator from North Florida. His fiction is set in the barrier islands, tidal marshes, and back channels of the Jacksonville coast — territory he has known his whole life and has spent years learning to see clearly.
His debut novel, Songs We Sang as Children, is a literary crime novel set in the Timucuan Preserve north of Jacksonville. It is a book about what men owe each other, what violence costs, and what survives when everything else burns away.
He holds a Master's degree in English and Creative Writing and has spent nearly three decades in the classroom. He lives in North Florida.
Ian Sloan came back from war to a version of himself he doesn't entirely recognize. When a childhood friend turns up dead in the marshes north of Jacksonville, Ian pulls on a thread that unravels into a $200 million cartel operation, a network of institutional corruption, and a reckoning he has been moving toward his whole life.
Set in the tidal estuaries and barrier islands of the Timucuan Preserve — a world of shrimp boats, river channels, and men who have learned to keep their own counsel. A novel about loyalty, moral weight, and what it costs to do the right thing when the right thing isn't clean.
For readers of S.A. Cosby, Lou Berney, and Dennis Lehane.
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