Caribbean Thriller

In 1775 the little known Caribbean island of St. Eustatius is experiencing an economic boom unprecedented in scale. British Foreign Office spies based in Barbados are suspicious their French and rebel American counterparts are responsible and that much more is happening below the surface. Captain Owen Spence is tasked by his spymaster in Barbados with learning more. After establishing a trading operation as cover on St. Eustatius, Owen soon discovers weapon smuggling in support of the American rebels is rampant. Rumours the French are soon going to shift from covert support of the Americans...

Early retirement in the sunny Caribbean or a star-spangled life with your best friend’s daughters?With a return to corporate life already taking a toll, Daniel Pierce can’t wait to hop on a plane and head back to his beach house in the sunny Bahamas. But this time he’s not going alone. Blonde and busty Lillie, the youngest of the Raven sisters, tags along with her two best friends in toe. Brinn and Stacey kick it with Lillie for a week-long adventure involving tropical drinks, bar hopping, and a heaping helping of flirtatious fun. But the ladies aren’t alone. Dan plays host to a ...

When Charlotte McKay wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there, all she wants is to go back to the perfect London flat she shares with her husband, and the impressive career she’s worked so hard to build. But something’s not right. Her husband David is at her bedside - but so is a three-year-old girl, and she’s calling Charlotte "Mummy"....

Lady Audley is universally adored: Beautiful, kind and charming, she enamors all whom she meets. It is not until the strange disappearance of widower George Talboys that her behavior takes an odd turn. George's friend, Robert Audley, Lady Audley's nephew-in-law, is on the case; an upper-class layabout turned detective, he is determined to get to the bottom of things.

VERA HOPE, A SCIENTIST WHO HAS DEVELOPED AN ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY, IS THE TARGET OF A MAN WHOSE DIALYSIS EMPIRE IS THREATENED! *** Hiding from the assassins that killed her husband, Vera Hope runs into Jake Scarne in the Caribbean. The private eye is only seeking peace and quiet as he tries to forget the trauma of his recent cases. But he finds neither, and soon becomes involved in the tragedy that is Vera Hope's life. *** “IF YOU LIKE HARD-BOILED ACTION, MEMORABLE VILLAINS AND TWISTY PLOTS, THE JAKE SCARNE THRILLERS NEVER DISAPPOINT!” (John Crudele, New York Post) INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM ...

Stone Barrington, an ex-cop turned Manhattan attorney and private eye, treads the thin line between the respectable practice of law and the dark side of humanity. The roller-coaster ride begins during a vacation on the Caribbean island of St. Marks, when a beautiful young woman named Allison Manning sails into the harbor on a large yacht. Allison immediately draws the attention of Minister of Justice Sir Winston Sutherland, who demands to know why her husband, a famous writer, has vanished.

Susan has everything she ever wanted. A loving husband, an angelic daughter and the cottage of her dreams in County Cork. Her picture-perfect life seems too good to be true. And it is. At a housewarming party with their new neighbours, her daughter Amelia goes missing. As friends become suspects, Susan’s life spirals out of control. And when Amelia’s yellow cardigan is dredged from the lake, every parent’s worst nightmare suddenly seems horribly real. In the aftermath of Amelia’s disappearance Susan and her husband Paul are not themselves. Someone is hiding something.

Devastated by a broken engagement, Stella Jackson leaves her old life behind for a new start in rural Scotland. But when she arrives in the remote coastal village of Arisaig, nothing is what she expected. At the edge of Arisaig sits Munro House; grand, imposing and said to be cursed by a string of tragic deaths. No less intriguing is its eccentric and handsome young owner, Jamie Munro, who hires Stella as his assistant while he pursues a seemingly impossible aim.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America quickly mobilized to fight a war in the Pacific. The events in Europe, while important, seemed less urgent to most Americans than defending America's interests in the Pacific and preventing an invasion of Hawaii and the West coast of the United States. Hitler, on the other hand, immediately directed his U- boats to attack shipping in the Atlantic all along the East coast of the United States. The U-boats were soon deployed to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to disrupt oil and raw materials supplying the Allies war effort. While several ...

It's Carnival time in paradise, but the biggest party of the year is in jeopardy. When a crucial shipment of booze goes missing, Roscoe Harper is called in to find it—fast. Roscoe's no detective, but he's got no choice but to play amateur sleuth with help from an unlikely new partner: Rosario Cruz, the mayor's strapping sister and personal bodyguard. She may be tough as nails, but can Roscoe trust her to watch his back in the island's seedy underbelly? The mismatched duo dive headfirst into their booziest case yet, but someone would rather see Carnival canceled for good. As threats ...

Sam Hawkins is running out of money when a phone call sends him to the Caribbean. An offer of five grand to fly to Antigua and find an ailing woman's missing uncle. How hard could it be? Track down kindly Uncle Sal on a tiny island? But some people who go missing don't want to be found, while others lie in wait with offers of temptation.

The second book in the ‘Jacaranda’ trilogy:Jack Vincent and his girlfriend Emma return to England to help British Government Scientists to understand what they had learned by travelling back in time. The cause is known but not understood. It was due to a wartime experiment that failed. They are asked to go back again at the next opportunity to try to recover material from the ship that disappeared.Once again, Jacaranda returns to the past but is almost wrecked in a hurricane and due to a miscalculation, arrives off Guadeloupe in 1794 at the height of the Reign of Terror, which has just ...

Autumn Breeze is the winner of the prestigious San Diego Book Awards for best romance novel of the year. SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 On the morning of 9/11, a fourteen-year-old genius’s mother disappears. Her beloved father had been murdered years before. She’s now without parents. She resolves to get a new mom and dad and have them adopt her before she is deported to Trinidad. For her new mom, she selects her BFF (best friend forever), a New York City detective. For her new dad, she selects the handsome spy investigating her BFF. The investigation was the girl’s fault. She had predicted the ...

An aging Coast Guard patrol boat is all that stands between the world and nuclear annihilation! The world is on the brink of war, with NATO mobilizing to counter a Russian threat to Poland and Lithuania and leaders openly discussing war options. In the midst of the crisis, a Russian bomber collides with a U.S. fighter off Florida causing the accidental launch of a nuclear-tipped hypersonic missile. A Coast Guard cutter on a routine patrol finds a drug-laden sailboat smashed and adrift north of the Florida Keys. The boat’s damage is from a near miss by the Russian missile which has not ...

Texas attorney and sloppy drinker Katie Connell’s career just melted down before her eyes. After very public failure during a doomed celebrity trial and a heart-wrenching breakup, she avoids rehab by retreating to the tropical island where her parents tragically died. But when she arrives, it becomes obvious that her parents’ supposed accident was cold and calculated. As Katie sorts through the clues, she gets help from an unexpected source: a spirited house named Annalise.

A heinous crime. An old foe. A violent cult. An angel is dead, and Leonardo Bravo is bringing hell. Leonardo Bravo faces his darkest hour when a young nun is found dead on a desolate hill. As the chilling news reaches him, Bravo senses a familiar malevolence that haunts his past. The deceased novice, adorned only with an azabache amulet, bears the sinister signature of Bravo's old nemesis, Mother Pitia. But why target this innocent angel, and where is the elusive mother superior hiding? As Bravo unravels the mystery, he faces an evil that threatens not only his life but the very fabric of ...

Trinidad Noir reveals the Caribbean island’s darkness and its appeal with an unexpected and gratifying result. Features brand-new stories by Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, Vahni Capildeo, Willi Chen, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Keith Jardim, Reena Andrea Manickchand, Tiphanie Yanique, and more.

Tara and Owen Danden, celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in Jamaica, are on the water, in a boat he rented, when the weather shifts and Tara falls overboard. As Owen tries desperately to save his wife, the boat spins and hits her head - sending her into a coma. Pulled out of the water, barely alive, Tara is airlifted to an elegant hospital on the island, and remains in a coma for two months. When she finally dies, however, there becomes a question of whether she truly died of natural causes.

A well-known criminal lawyer is found dead in a back alley in St. Thomas, and Cindy and Mattheus are called in to investigate by the grieving widow. The local police have pinned her for the murder, and Cindy and Mattheus are her last hope in vindication. As Cindy and Mattheus dig deeper into the victim's past, they learn that all was not as rosy as it seemed. They discover mistresses, gambling debts, vendettas, and a number of people who had motivation to want him dead.

In Death by Obsession, the next installment in the number-one best-selling Caribbean Murder series, a huge destination wedding, merging two blueblood families, is about to take place in St. Martin, when Cindy and Mattheus get an emergency call from the father of the bride. He wants them to come down to the island immediately and dig up dirt on the groom. He can't shake his bad feeling about the guy, even though all his other investigations didn't turn up a thing.