Ships Detective

When they found the body of a stowaway in the bowels of the ship, no one could have predicted the storm of trouble heading their way. Three-hundred-year-old coins found with the dead man’s meager belongings point to a treasure thought lost to the ocean long ago. However, when the arrival of a murderous mystery figure forced Patricia and her friends to figure things out for themselves, they questioned if the trail they now follow might just lead to one of the greatest treasure finds ever recorded.

Take an armchair trip to the Mexican Riviera! Runaway Bride Abandons Cruise Wedding The Butler women are on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera to attend a shipboard wedding, looking forward to sipping margaritas in the sun. When Cassie's friend, a rich heiress goes missing before the wedding, chaos ensues. Was it just wedding jitters or did something sinister happen to her? Anna sets her grief aside and goes sleuthing again, accompanied by her debonair gentleman friend. Neither wedding guest nor family member escapes her scrutiny as she struggles to find a motive. The stakes are raised when ...

Samantha Moon is back and fighting crime! Hired for what seems like another cheating spouse case, Samantha couldn’t be more surprised when the target of her surveillance seemingly walks in on a bank robbery. Is he somehow involved? Sam doesn't know, but a few twists and turns later, she soon finds herself hanging from a helicopter’s landing skid... and heading out to sea. Turns out, this is no ordinary cheating spouse case. Luckily, Sam is no ordinary private eye. Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE today!

Gwen Wells, 55, longed for a peaceful escape from her newly empty nest. Little did she know that her first cruise with her golden retriever Ginger would thrust her into a maritime mystery that would change her life forever. When a wealthy passenger is found dead in the ship's spa, Gwen's relaxing getaway turns into a high-stakes investigation. Armed with a lifetime of reading mystery novels and her loyal canine companion, she reluctantly partners with a famous mystery novelist eager to research her next bestseller. As they navigate through a sea of eccentric passengers and tight-lipped crew...

A luxury cruise ship. A ruthless drug syndicate. A detective who never leaves his ship... until now. Sidney Fleet, brilliant detective and notorious recluse, has made the Meridian Challenger his permanent floating fortress. With his meticulous mind and network of international agents, he solves the world's most complex crimes without ever setting foot on land. But when threatening messages start appearing, followed by a poisoning attempt and sabotage of the ship's systems, Fleet and his pragmatic assistant Drew Peterson realize this is no ordinary case. Someone aboard the Challenger has ...

More than three hundred years ago, the officers and crew of a Spanish treasure ship embarked on a quest to pull off the greatest heist the world would ever know. What became of them has remained hidden by time, but now two parties are closing in on the truth and the billions in gold and jewels that went missing all those years ago. Xavier Silvestre wants the treasure. He is rich, resourceful, and ruthless. He also has one of Patricia Fisher’s friends and that’s more than enough to get her involved.

A storeroom gem safe on the cruise ship MS Aerwyna is open and a whistleblower reports it on a tip line. It is the third out-off-service ship, anchored in international waters off the Bahamas, to be refitted. If the heist involves each of the anchored three ships, it is well-organised crime with a purse large enough to kill for. By the afternoon, Cruise Ship Crime Investigators CSCI are onboard under a cover of system testers. The mastermind and digital expert required to break into the cruise operator’s main system, produce movement orders, and open doors, maybe remotely working from ...

Tragedy, secrets, and heartache. It’s been the story of her life for years. Abigail knew that she should be afraid of him…but she wasn’t. Not even when he told her who he was…and why he was there.She’d taken a job on the cruise ship years ago with the thought that if she was never in any one place for very long she would be safe. No one would ever think to look for her here. At least that’s what she believed. Gabe had suspected for a couple of days that something wasn’t quite right. He’d taken this particular job thinking it would be a simple deal and tied up quickly and ...

Aboard the luxury cruise ship Meridian Challenger, brilliant detective Sidney Fleet guards a wealthy industrialist's secrets as they venture into Arctic waters. But not everyone sailing north seeks the midnight sun. Drew Peterson, Fleet's observant young assistant, finds his loyalties tested when romance and suspicion collide. As freezing winds howl and ice coats the decks, the ship becomes a chessboard where nothing - and no one - is quite what they seem. When dangerous waters and deadly ambitions threaten to transform their sanctuary into a trap, Fleet and Peterson must unravel a web of ...

When seven million dollars in ancient gold coins vanish from a burned-out antique shop in Barcelona, legendary detective Sidney Fleet finds himself racing against time aboard the exclusive cruise ship Meridian Challenger. As Spanish authorities close in, demanding the ship's return to port, Fleet and his assistant Drew Peterson must unravel a web of deception involving a mysterious entomologist, his research assistant, and an elaborate ant farm that may hold more than just insects. Known for solving complex crimes from the comfort of his ocean-view suite, the brilliant but eccentric Fleet ...

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a shipping container in Bristol, the police suspect she was an illegal immigrant whose death was a tragic accident. But their theory is shot down by two pieces of evidence: the container was due to ship out, not in; and, even more sinister, a video camera with a live feed was filming her from a hidden compartment. Someone watched her die. Slowly.

The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of . . . When private detective Rick Bailey is hired by the exotically beautiful and outrageously wealthy Princess Nora, he thinks it'll be easy money. Escaping from her rebellion-torn kingdom, the princess has lost her handmaiden, Lores: the only person who knows how to find the hidden royal jewels. But when his search for the equally lovely Lores turns deadly, Bailey realizes that there is more to this case than it first seemed. When someone tries to kill him, he discovers that the roots of evil run deep. With his own set of values and sense of honor, Bailey...

On the remote Manutassi ColonyShip, death is rare. Murder is almost unheard of. Dr. Miyumi Katahashi, a talented yet troubled physician, never expected to play detective. But when the body of a young woman is discovered floating in one of Inagawa colony’s hydropods, the fragile balance of their isolated society begins to unravel. Assisting Police Chief Whaled Bey, Katahashi soon uncovers far more than just a crime—she unearths buried secrets, illicit affairs, and a power struggle that threatens to tear the community apart. As the investigation deepens, every answer leads to more ...

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 ...

The pace of the action in this thrilling tale will make your heart pound. A whodunit mystery of magnificent proportions. Enjoy the exciting twists and turns of this gripping, edge-of-your-seat drama as Chris and Kate Taylor team up again to stop the killings aboard a luxury cruise ship. Book One in The Honeymoon Trilogy - The Chris and Kate Taylor Mystery Series A honeymoon cruise of joy and happiness—or a deadly voyage of violence? Newly married homicide detective Chris Taylor and his bride, attorney Kate Taylor, nee Johnson, are going on a fabulous one-month honeymoon cruise. They will ...

Brian O’Reilly’s days as a lone-wolf private detective are numbered. Business in LA is drying up. Then his best friend, Ted Firestone, captain of the Italian Cruise Ship, the Adriatic Voyager calls him. The daughter of the cruise line’s owner has been kidnapped off Firestone’s ship. O’Reilly follows the trail of the missing young woman from Barcelona, to Livorno, Naples, Amalfi, Florence, Venice and even to Budapest, taking on a sex-trafficking ring, the cruise line’s private security force and even his ex-wife’s boyfriend in the process. Finally, on the Greek island of ...

What happens when Jennifer wins herself the trip of a lifetime? When investigative journalist Jennifer Longo receives a random text message stating she has won a free cruise, she takes up the offer without a moment’s hesitation. Jennifer is excited to see that two friends from her past are also on the ship. However, jealousy is quick to set in when they see Chris, the ship’s most attractive and mysterious male guest. As the ship departs, the guests are excited to be travelling to an unknown destination. However, it isn’t long before Jennifer realises that drama has the knack of ...

A plot that could lose America World War I. His mentor murdered, but his life saved by a woman on a dark street in Seattle, Washington, in 1916, Pinkerton detective Robert Jamieson is later caught up in the Everett, Washington, Massacre while infiltrating the Industrial Workers of the World - the Wobblies. Accusing the Pinkerton agency of collusion, he quits to join the Army's fledgling Military Intelligence Division but, instead of being sent to France in 1917, he's assigned back to the Pacific Northwest with a mission to go undercover to track down Irish radical Malachi O'Neill, suspected...

At Rooks Wood Farm, Rosalind Breen's twin sons grieve her death. Daniel shoulders the burdens of running the farm and caring for his brother, Caleb, who's shunned for his strange appearance. Meanwhile, Minsmere Bird Reserve is suffering a spate of vandalism and senior partners of the Anglican Detective Agency, Frank Diamond and Laurel Bowman, are enlisted to find the culprits. But shortly after taking the case, Laurel discovers the body of a young man dumped in one of the meres and the detectives are caught up in a murder enquiry.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ Author G. Taylor In this 5K-word swollen and throbbing erotic short story, a woman named Jeanine joins her husband on a swinger couple's cruise, only Jeanine is suddenly blamed for stealing an emerald necklace from the ship's most executive passenger. Now it's a race against time as Jeanine and a handsome PI named Bridge Hoffa must find the true culprit in the theft. As the evidence begins to mount, it now appears as if that priceless ...