The Sanibel Sunset Detective by Ron Base

He dropped out of high school at the age of 18 but was able to attend the journalism school at Algonquin College for one year in 1967-1968. He was also the Brockville correspondent for the Kingston Whig Standard. Based on his work for the weekly, he landed a part-time job at the daily Recorder and Times where he wrote a column for teenagers and worked as a general assignment reporter during the summer. He began writing for a weekly newspaper, The United Counties Packet, when he was 15 years old. Here Base finished elementary school and then attended Brockville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School. His bank manager father, Eric, moved the family-mother Jean and younger brother Ric-from Belleville to Cobourg to Picton, and finally to Brockville, Ontario.

Ron Base was born in Belleville, Ontario, Dec. 'The Hound of the Sanibel Sunset Detective' will change Tree Callister’s life-and it might just do the same for readers! This Ron Base’ Tree Callister mystery thriller isn’t only a fast-paced, page-turning suspense novel-it’s also a heartfelt love story about the effect dogs have on our lives, and the lengths we will go to protect and cherish them. Despite their best efforts, they’ve fallen in love with their new pal, so Tree is determined to protect him no matter what. And now Clinton has become part of the lives of Tree and his wife, Freddie. Except he keeps getting dragged back into a business where people tend to shoot him. He’s no longer the only private detective on Sanibel Island, the laid-back paradise off the west coast of Florida. What Private Detective Tree Callister can’t figure out is why everyone wants the dog. All sorts of bad guys are willing to kill each other for Clinton. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are hunting for him.

The Sanibel Sunset Detective by Ron Base