The Don Juan Con - Hardcover

Williams, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595070117 ISBN 13: 9781595070111

Publisher: Archebooks Pub, 2003

This complex and ever-twisting thriller is torn from the headlines of actual events, an all-too-common crime that often goes unreported and unpunished. In The Don Juan Con a flamboyant swindler calling himself Anthony Abruzzi wines and dines unsuspecting women from one end of the country to the other, seducing them into marrying him within days of meeting him. Yet just before the lavish whirlwind weddings are to take place, he disappears, absconding with whatever assets, meager or mighty, his victims possessed.

Yet when he makes the mistake of jilting and bankrupting Angie Reynolds, a designer living in DeLeon, FL, his fortunes are about to be reversed. With the help of police detective Joe Vensure, Angie meticulously hunts Anthony down, following his trail of broken-hearted and devastated victims. She is further shocked to discover that not all of his marks were merely jilted -- some are dead. It becomes a race against time itself when she discovers that her own mother may be his next victim. And nothing can prepare her for learning the mysterious secret of her own past that started it all.

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From the Publisher:

This is an all-too-true tale of when "love 'em and leave 'em" turns deadly. Ms. Williams is a gifted journalist and novelist. Her vivid characters and page-turning action make this a must read.

About the Author:

Sara Williams is a former Gannett newspaper reporter and columnist whose stories enjoyed frequent national syndication in major U.S. dailies. She won various state and national journalism awards.

Ms. Williams and her husband, Bill, are blue water sailors and adventure travelers. They made several major ocean crossings in their own boat, toured closed archaeological sites in Copan, and spent time among the Garifone tribe of Honduras. They have lived in Maui, HI, Florida, and now reside in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Their extended family includes four sons, a daughter, and two grand children.

Sara Williams was in the American Studies program at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. where she worked as a government intern while attending college. She graduated in English literature from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she was a student of novelist and poet, David Wagoner. She began her career in journalism in Seattle as a staff writer and associate editor of Cascades, a nationally recognized industrial magazine.

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