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  • Sanibel Flats

  • Doc Ford #1
  • By: Randy White
  • Narrated by: Dick Hill
  • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (1,206 ratings)

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Sanibel Flats

By: Randy White
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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Publisher's summary

Its cool gulf breezes lured him from a life of danger. Its dark undercurrents threatened to destroy him. After 10 years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down.

Then Rafe Hollins appeared. How could he refuse his old friend's request---even if it would put him back on the firing line? Even if it would change forever the life he'd built here on Sanibel Island?

The doctor is in: listen to more of our Doc Ford thrillers.
©1990 Randy Wayne White (P)2010 Tantor

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Fantastic Ending

When I started this book, I had high hopes. I winter in Ft. Myers Beach and the Sanibel area. At first I was bitterly disappointed. Not sure if it was the narrator or the story line. But by the second part, I was hooked. The ending left me smiling and hoping the 2nd book continues on.

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interesting story line.

The twist on the normal story of the amateur sleuth was very good. nicely done

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sandals the best

can't wait to go back to Sanibel Island and hang out at doc Ford's, Randy just makes everything real.

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Sanibel Flats

I love all of RWW books. I’ve been reading them since the early 90’s, now I get to listen to them, but I’ve started over from the beginning. A great travel companion.

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    3 out of 5 stars

Probably a good book

The rating of this book is a guess on my part. Dick Hill's narration made it impossible to give an informed opinion. I don't generally care for Mr. Hill's narration and his effort here was one of his worst.

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Heavy listener

Just getting into doc Ford. I love this one and look forward for the rest of the series to listen to

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Not bad for first in the series

Audiobook downloaded from audible.com, read by Dick Hill. Pretty good - I've read a couple of the later books in this series and they were better, but I wanted to read the whole series and start at the beginning. This one was a bit Stuart Woods-ish in that beautiful women appear out of nowhere and randomly want to have sex with Ford for no apparent reason :) But not bad, and I plan to read the whole series.

I visited Sanibel island years ago with my father and find that White really captures the mood of the area. I'd like to go down again and have dinner at his restaurant

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the voice matters

Where does Sanibel Flats rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

very good

What did you like best about this story?

mystery, characters, humor and romance

Have you listened to any of Dick Hill’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I bought this book because of Dick Hill --I will buy about anything he reads, because he is my favorite narrator. I have bought other audiobooks that are probably a good read but I have quit listening because of the boring voice of the narrator.

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Good Story, not so good Narrator

I love the Doc Ford series but this narrator is not a great performer and it distracts from the story.

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Reader and Story ALWAYS great

This is book one in the series. I have listed to all of them and never been disappointed. The caricature department is very good and you even find the hippie Tomlinson likable.
In short, you won't be disappointed.

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