Body Shots:Belize Justice-A Caribbean Mystery Kennedy Bracken, scuba diving the Belize Barrier Reef, witnesses and photographs sharks in a feeding frenzy, their target a young woman's body. Minutes later, alone at sea, Bracken is left with little more than bad memories, morbid photos, and questions about the woman who will never again be seen.As a retired accident investigator obsessed with death resolution, Bracken is compelled to learn who she was and how she died. It's good news that local police use the best of Bracken's partial-face photos to identify the accidental-death victim, but details in other photos force Bracken to discount the who, where, and how of the official story.Bracken recruits Sarah McGarrity, his vacationing, Denver-based, almost fiancée, and the self-appointed detectives dig deep, follow evidence, and look for answers-only to exhume a truth more brutal than the sharks. J.A. (John) Turley, raised in San Diego, California, successfully combined his love of and respect for the ocean with his academics and career as a Petroleum Engineer, with graduate work in Ocean Engineering. The majority of his working years focused on the world of offshore drilling and production. Assignments in Houston, Texas; Lafayette, Louisiana; Miami, Florida, and the U.K., among others, always had something to do with offshore drilling. When Turley retired, he started a new career as a writer. This Website offers a brief view of three books by Turley. Each is related to the ocean in its own way.
