Island Crime

Alex Méndez has spent more than a decade carrying out exclusive contracts. He’s the most valued Latin American hitman for governments, cartels and mafias. Now Alex accepts his last contract for twenty million dollars. The mission: to assassinate an ex-general of Saddam Hussein’s defeated government, who is hiding in Cuba, along with the Cuban colonel in charge of his protection. As with every contract, Alex prepares plans B, C and D. Although for this one, the recruitment of a Cuban dancer and prostitute who works on Cayo Santa María will be the key to his success . . . or his failure.

The Florida Keys are experiencing something never seen before; a serial killer. After every clue has been exhausted, Key West police and Monroe County sheriffs are no closer to solving this mystery than when they found the first victim, so they call in Florida Division of Law Enforcement detective Charley Thomas to help. After weeks of investigation, Charley hasn’t come up with a single clue. The sheriffs are starting to wonder if it’s an inside job.

A romantic historical drama set on Sable Island during the late 19th century. Dr. Wulfrey Dale, a well-respected country doctor, finds himself at the center of turmoil when Pasley Carew, a wealthy and brutal man, suffers a severe injury during a fox hunt. Despite Dale's best efforts, Carew dies not from his injuries but from a lethal dose of strychnine secretly administered by his long-suffering wife, Elinor. Elinor confides her guilt to Dale, pleading for his help to avoid execution, pushing him into a moral and professional dilemma. Dale, caught between his duty to the law and his ...

When Brandt 'Doc' Savage and his girlfriend Kira land on a desert island in the middle of the Atlantic, they think they've found a perfect utopia. An escape from their tumultuous pasts. But they don't have long to enjoy their newfound peace before they are violently separated and dragged to opposite ends of the Earth. As Doc searches the seas and continents for Kira, he discovers they are entangled in a global conspiracy that is bigger he ever could have imagined.

Andrea “Andi” Silvers is starting to feel like this tiny fishing village of Coffin Cove, on the Vancouver coast, just might be home. She’s living with Hephzibah and sort of dating Harry. Her job at The Gazetteis going well. Things are looking up. Then, the body of a young woman is found on nearby Hope Island, where Hephzibah and Harry’s mother moved to when they were children. Andi sets out to get the scoop on the story. She wants to be the one to identify the body and to find out what happened.

The little girl had to run. She had just seen her parents murdered. And the murderer had seen her. Saved by the sound of police sirens, six year old Jennifer ran to a neighbor because he had helped her before. She had been hurt, and Danny Ryle gave her what she believed was a magical band aid. Desperate, she begged Danny not to let her be sent to a strange home. Impressed by the girl's intelligence and kindness, Danny and his friends determined to protect her by finding the killer and hiding her from the world. Aided by Ari Eilat, who had hunted terrorists in Israel, and Betsy Revere, a ...

When US DEA Special Agent Lelisa Desmond refuses to follow an order to bury evidence in a high profile case, her superior hires a hit man to forever silence her deep in the ocean off Grand Cayman Island. Lelisa survives the first attempt on her life, but someone close to her is mistakenly murdered in her place. With no one to trust, Lelisa enlists Inspector Alec Dyer for assistance but soon learn she's his number one suspect in the homicide. She sets off on a daring mission to bring down the man who ordered her execution.

Their story would shock the world. Marshall and Eliza Porter have a secret. A big one. Haunted by guilt and shame, the couple is living their worst nightmare. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy most marriages, they learn not to trust their friends...or their enemies...or each other. As the bodies keep piling up, someone is watching them and their lives begin unraveling as they quickly turn on each other. Several of the island's residents get pulled into the mystery, when investigators find a piece of evidence that can't be ignored. Everything the residents thought to be true is ...

On the private island of Castle Fiore - surrounded by the glittering waters of Lake Garda - the illustrious Heywood family gathers begrudgingly for their son Laurence's wedding to Italian influencer Eva Bianchi. But as the ceremony begins, a blood-curdling scream brings the proceedings to a devastating halt. With the wedding guests trapped as they await the police, old secrets come to light and family rivalries threaten to bubble over.

Having had his retirement snatched from him by malfunctioning technology, Peter “Mad Max” Maxwell finds himself facing yet another year at Leighford High School. His wife, Jacquie, is further annoyed when a family holiday quickly becomes an impromptu Year Seven trip to the Isle of Wight. The situation takes another turn for the worse when the wife of Tom Medlicott, the new Head of Art, goes missing.

Alibi Island is a legendary paradise hidden away deep in international waters. The only law is money. You’ve got to pay to play, but it’s all fair game if you’re rich enough. It's a lucrative business. What happens on the island stays on the island. That’s the promise. But it is a lie. Everything that happens is recorded. All of that footage becomes blackmail material down the line, as the island's secret power brokers look to cement their stranglehold on power. And when a senator’s daughter’s disappearance is linked to the island, all of its darkest secrets are at risk.

Twenty-two-year-old pop star Cherry Pye is attempting a comeback from her latest drug-fuelled disaster. Her 'stunt double', Ann, travels everywhere with her, throwing paparazzi off the scent when they get too close. But one night, Ann's resemblance to Cherry Pye proves too convincing - she is kidnapped by an obsessed paparazzo who only realises his mistake once it is too late to go back....

As dawn breaks on the Canary Islands, a fisherman discovers a woman lying dead on the rocks nearby, her body arranged like a piece of art. To solve the case, Chief Inspector Diego Quintana gets unexpected help from Swedish journalist Sara Moberg, who runs the Scandinavian newspaper on the island, as well as from handsome former investigator Kristian Wede. But not even that can stop the killer from striking again.

Nestled in an overlooked part of the Mediterranean, Dog Island is home to a quiet and untouched community that has long lived off its fishing, its vines, and its olive trees, far away from the turmoil its neighbors. But when the bodies of three unidentified men wash up on the beach, the witnesses are faced with an impossible decision: Report the discovery and open up the island to grisly inquiries, or conceal the terrible truth?

In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, famous author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a wild and beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast. Autumn 2018. Over the past 20 years, Fawles has not given a single interview. As his novels continue to captivate readers, Mathilde Monney, a young Swiss journalist, arrives on the island, determined to unlock his secrets. That same day, a woman's body is discovered on the beach and the island is cordoned off by the authorities.

In the mist-shrouded Azores Islands lies a secret that men have killed for - the lost treasure of Portugal's King Sebastian. For archaeologist Lauren Banister, this isn't just another expedition. After being betrayed and robbed of credit for a previous discovery, she's here for redemption as much as riches. Going undercover with a running tour group, she thinks she's finally one step ahead of her rivals. She didn't count on meeting the Crismans - John and Sandra, amateur treasure hunters whose vacation is about to become the adventure of a lifetime. When their paths cross, Lauren realizes ...

It’s already dark when Stephanie Miller returns to her lakeside home on Vashon Island. Remote and isolated with a view over the water, it’s the way Stephanie has chosen to live since her husband died. Calling out her daughter’s name as she closes the door, she hears her phone buzz inside her purse. She doesn’t have to look to know what it says. Someone knows her biggest secret. Someone wants to kill her for it. The messages have been coming all day, but this one is different. This one knows she’s just walked through the door.

Would you risk your life for total strangers? When she is assaulted while on vacation in Key West, the unforgettable Kate Bowers marshals her skills as a former homicide detective and Army MP. As she hunts down her assailant, she discovers women enslaved in a high-end sex trafficking operation on a luxury super-yacht. That’s only the first complication. The president’s daughter is missing and in mortal danger.

This riveting and entertaining thriller by Thomas Perry follows a husband-and-wife con team on the run from the Mob, a soldier of fortune between jobs, a two-bit operator with grandiose dreams of tribal dynasty, a sultry CIA operative with divided loyalties, the most dazzling defector ever to hurl a split-fingered fastball, and 20th-century buccaneers who wash up on a tiny island in the Caribbean and turn it into a multinational cash machine. But then the shooting starts.

New England is best known for its covered bridges, immaculate town greens, and Revolutionary War history. Yet an evil presence has hidden behind the 17th-century stone walls and clap-boarded homes of CT, Mass., and Rhode Island for centuries. New York Times best-selling author M. William Phelps takes a look at some of the most terrifyingly true stories in New England history.