An edge-of-your-seat mystery taking the reader on an exciting four state roller-coaster ride, an engrossing, powerful novel replete with murder, romance, deception, greed, and drama. Suspects are dropping like flies. It begins as a simple missing waitress and murdered bartender case. Private Detective Anthony Lorenzo has his hands full and caught up in a game of throwing darts at disappearing shadows, those who are training to make changes to a government, and the cost curve in American lives isn’t what’s being counted. The Order of the Society of Legatee, a secret society where world-changing events are hatched, re-emerges as the story unravels. Characters are constantly developed under demanding encounters with many chilling, hair-raising confrontations. A cryptic code is discovered engraved in a trinket and someone is trying to scare Lorenzo off the trail, even if it involves taking his life—the clock is ticking and time is running out. Who is the next to fall victim? In an easy and fast read, The Castle Club - In Close Proximity is imaginary storytelling at its finest.

Retired Detective Anthony Lorenzo’s life is about to take on a change after getting a late night long distance phone call. His ex-girlfriend Brenda needs his help. Someone has stolen a stack of fake Florida driver’s licenses and a journal describing a drug and porno operation, naming names and places. Now Brenda is on the run. She is a witness to her best friend’s murder. Still haunted by his past relationship with Brenda, Lorenzo takes his first-ever plane ride, from Worcester, Massachusetts to Palm Beach, Florida. First thing, he investigates the Castle Club, a private dance club for the rich. It’s where the murder takes place. Lorenzo gets caught up in a web of deceit, an unexpected steamy romantic affair that he doesn’t want to stop, and a planned blackmail scheme. He suspects a Palm Beach to Worcester drug distribution connection. Searching for more clues, he accidently uncovers a secret society’s meeting place, a club within a club, where world-changing events are hatched. Now the head of security at the Castle Club is looking for him, Brenda, and others. He wants his journal and will do anything to get it back. The Everglades, a body dumping ground, claims more victims as the mystery unravels. Choices need to be made: Does Lorenzo show his dark side and go to a place he’s never been, a place outside the law? What if he doesn’t? And will he and Brenda repair their long lost relationship?

The diversity and complexity of the legal issues that can arise in the course of the activities of a club, society or association present numerous questions for those advising and managing those bodies for which they need guidance. Problems range from the interpretation of rules to anti-discrimination legislation. Legal issues can span alcohol licensing, charities, company law, employment law, expulsion procedures, litigation, meetings, promotion of lotteries, property law and taxation. This is the definitive guide to the legal framework within which clubs, societies and associations operate, bringing together the various strands of law (including new case law and recent legislation) to provide practical legal advice for these bodies, their advisers and officers. The work includes a full set of model rules as well as other useful material in the Appendices.