Island Detective

FIRE ON THE ISLAND (Detective Liam O’Reilly #13) by Stewart Giles From bestselling author: Stewart Giles comes another brilliant addition to the Detective Liam O’Reilly series. In the evening of the 4th of July 2019 four dozen drones descend on Guernsey, and the peaceful island is ablaze in minutes. 48 individual bombs have caused destruction in all four corners of the island. Detective Inspector Liam O'Reilly takes this extremely personally. He was enjoying his honeymoon in the far north of the island at the time. As the fire on the island continues to burn, O'Reilly can't sit back and...

In his undead quest for justice, Felix Gomez - detective vampire extraordinaire - has traveled from dusty desert battlefields, to gritty urban barrios, to the deepest corners of outer space. Now he's about to embark on his wildest adventure yet: back to an alternative past of steam-powered technology, telepathic magic, and intrigue more deadly and unforgiving than any he has ever encountered. There, he's a renowned pistolero hired to find the missing daughter of notorious Chinese gangster Wu-Fei.

He forecasts the weather on TV to the delight of his many fans. But the residents of Ocean Vista Condominiums are less fond of Uncle Weatherwise—the newest arrival at the condo—especially when a hurricane that he predicted would bypass Palmetto Beach instead heads straight for their town. The morning after a frantic evacuation, Kate Kennedy is blown away when she stumbles upon the corpse of Uncle Weatherwise, with a sharpened weather vane pointed in the direction of his heart. Suddenly Kate’s neighbors are her suspects, from a retired Rockette to a former federal prosecutor to a man ...

In the black days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of peaty water and mud smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. Perez becomes obsessed with finding out her identity and what she was doing there.

On the island of Corfu, a British spy is dead and his double-agent is missing. Investigator Lucas Grant needs to find out what the hell's going on, before it’s too late. Only two miles across the sea lies Albania, where the secretive and brutal Hoxha communist regime guards its independence - and strategically invaluable naval bases - against the Soviet Union and NATO alike. Has the KGB found a way to change the balance of power? Landing on the unfamiliar island, Grant enlists the help of the local field agent - the dead man's lover - and uncovers a sinister, complex plot that threatens ...

Police Investigation: In the atlas of world history, it would occupy a small space of time. Without warning a bomb goes off in a shopping complex. Two housewives and three children are left dead. An act of anger and retaliation in a holiday resort, which triggered a violent chain of events.

Murder in the dunes: A new mystery series where dark secrets lurk beneath the surface, with a dash of humor to keep things afloat. During the renovation of the boardwalk by a moor, workers discover a body. DNA analysis reveals a match to a missing persons case that Enna and her former boss unsuccessfully investigated in 2016. The Fleetstedt team takes on the case, forcing Enna to confront a part of her past she’d rather keep buried. Pavel, on the other hand, investigates as thoroughly as ever — but not as carefully as Enna would have liked. What neither of them suspects: The past casts ...

Science Can Be Murder combines three books from the Roger and Suzanne South American Mystery series into one omnibus volume. It starts with the first book in the series, the novel The Ambivalent Corpse, an ideal introduction to the series characters. Parts of a dismembered corpse are found on a rocky stretch of beach in Montevideo, Uruguay, apportioned equally between Memorials to a German cruiser sunk in World War II and to the Jews killed in the Holocaust. Roger and Suzanne travel from Uruguay to Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay to solve this baffling and grotesque murder case. In the ...

We are on an island rumored to have many rare animals. Let's check it out and see what we can find. This book is for beginning readers ages 5 to 8.

Massachusetts State Police detective Tommy Kelly is called to Nantucket Island, where a boy’s skeletal remains have been discovered at a construction site—interred for thirty-five years. The crime is especially gutting for Tommy, the father of two boys. It’s also the beginning of a grim mystery. Because no child during that period was even reported missing. Tommy is partnered with Nantucket PD’s best detective, Jo Harris, who first chafes at the idea of a mainlander encroaching on her territory. And their work together is only raising more troubling questions.

Newlyweds Jim and Sarah were welcomed home from their honeymoon to the Scottish island of Kinness with a huge celebration and the whole island was present to witness the bitter end. But did Jim’s younger sister Mary fall? Or was she pushed? George Palmer-Jones, retired birdwatcher and amateur detective, suspected the latter, but proving it would be difficult—no one wanted to upset the balance of the island’s ancient relationships.

Una aventura fantástica, que los protagonistas no olvidarán nunca. Un avión sufre un accidente en un lugar indeterminado de la costa de Indonesia. Los únicos cuatro supervivientes se cobijan en una pequeña isla desierta, hasta que lleguen los equipos de rescate. Mientras esperan, comienzan a ocurrir unos hechos extraños que hace sospechar a los náufragos que no están solos y que allí hay alguien más, aparte de ellos. Todo se complica cuando deciden refugiarse en un barco averiado, que se ha quedado embarrancado en el arrecife, y una morsa enorme impide que nadie se pueda acercar.

Highlands Lake is a small town…but even there where the most reliable news can be found in the local bakery and friendships last a lifetime…there are those who choose to live outside the rules…Jonathan Delamarck takes his job seriously. As such, murder investigations typically slide to the top of his priority list whether they took place in the last twenty-four hours or sometime in the last two hundred years. He believed that justice began with identifying the individual who was responsible. And that was exactly what he planned to do. Have you ever said something you really wish you ...

There's a Black Mamba loose on Hamilton Island and George Bailey Associates Detectives are on the case. This time it's Sharon's turn to tell the story. The team now have George Bailey's old Model T Ice Truck to use in tracking down Margie the Mamba. Fans of the earlier George Bailey books will have fun as they follow George Bailey, Walt, Henry Lido and, of course, Sharon. The story is another fast paced search for the dangerous snake --- and a dangerous human.

I always looked up to my big sister. Until she disappeared. I was there. I know who took her. But no one will believe me… When Rosie Casket learns of a mysterious inheritance, she returns home to Dark Haven, a tiny lobster village in Maine so isolated that even the old lighthouse still burns kerosene. Reeling from the loss of her job and haunted by her sister's disappearance, Rosie's trying to make peace with her past when a dead body washes up on the shore. The body has something in its pocket that doesn't belong, something that perplexes the state troopers. Something that only Rosie ...

You are offered the getaway of a lifetime on a remote island with a group of strangers. Things have been difficult recently, so you jump at the chance to swim under the summer sun, explore the peaceful woodlands and return to an elegant hotel for a glorious dinner. As the boat pulls into the harbour, you’re surrounded by crystal-clear water and soon you are alone. Just the peace and quiet you were promised. No phone signal, no internet…no way to call for help. But nothing will go wrong in paradise, right?

There’s no place like home. That is unless the wrong person knows where you live. Harry Walters thought he had the perfect hideaway on the island of Molokai until he and his wife became the targets of someone determined to kill them both.

Sara Catherine Canton fled the confines of her small hometown years ago, carving out her own life and a career investigating fraud for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Despite being a scion of Wallace Island's most affluent family, she's been content to leave the family fortune, her spendthrift mother, her idiosyncratic brother and her family's prominent role in the community far behind. After her mother's death, she reluctantly comes home to pay her respects before heading back to her own life in Atlanta. But an unexpected event at the funeral reveals all is not well in Wallace Island....

Audrey has a secret. She likes killing bad people. She’s on the hunt for her next victim, what she doesn’t know is that someone is also hunting her. Is there such a thing as a ‘good serial killer’? Meet Audrey King. She’s young, privileged, beautiful, desirable, respected and admired. But none of these matters to Audrey. As the youngest daughter of billionaire Victor King, she’s not interested in fast cars, fast men, private jets and super yachts. She’d rather put her allowance and her unique talents to more ‘humane’ pursuits—like killing bad people. But then it all goes...

Jake Scarne has retired. But he has mixed feelings about it. He suspects that there is more to life than golf outings and sojourns down the Jersey Shore. Little does he know that some of his old skills will come in handy when the Staten Island Ferry he is on is hijacked! The hijackers claim they are terrorists. But their real motives are more venal. Scarne avails himself of possibly the most unusual ally he's ever had. But there is death and tragedy in this twisty tale that reminds some critics of two classic movies: DIE HARD and THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE-TWO-THREE. “IF YOU LIKE HARD-...