Knives Out meets The Binding in this historical romp full of magic, romance and adventure.Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She’d hoped for plenty of it when she agreed to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy. She even volunteered to serve as an old lady's companion on an ocean liner. But Maud didn't expect the old lady to turn up dead on the very first day of the voyage.Now she has to deal with a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham. Violet is everything Maud has been trained to distrust, yet can’t help but desire: a magician, an actress and a magnet for scandal.Surrounded by open sea and a ship full of suspects, Maud and Violet must learn to drop the masks they’ve learned to wear. Only then might they work together to locate a magical object worth killing for – and unmask a murderer. All without becoming dead in the water themselves.‘Mystery! Magic! Murder! . . . This book is a confection, both marv
Over 80 percent of Canadians live near a body of water — and that means when Canadians turn to crime, somebody usually ends up all wet. In this anthology of original crime fiction, editors Violette Ma
A twister, a kidnapping, and a murder—oh my! Scumble River may never be the same.For school psychologist Skye Denison, there's certainly no place like home. When a violent tornado devastates her small
"Sabal Bay consignment shop owner Eve Appel is fit to be tied--family tied. Just as she is basking in the warmth of a renewed relationship with her long-lost Uncle Winston, disaster strikes. He and
Stone Barrington only wants a winter getaway from the chill of New York in the beautiful, tropical Caribbean paradise of St. Mark's. But what the lawyer and ex-cop gets instead is the chance to defend
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” ―Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billion Dollar Whale“Truly one of the most nail-biting, page-turning, terrifying true-crime books I’ve ever read.” ―Nick Bilton, New York Times bestselling author of American KingpinFrom award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy―and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all.In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd’s of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. How had the pirates gotten aboard so easily? And if they wanted to steal the ship and bargain for its return, then why did they destroy it? The questions didn’t add up―and
Photographer Lydia McKenzie is taking portraits of prostitutes on the waterfront of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, when her art project takes a deadly turn. She discovers the body of Glenda, the star of her
The shipwrecked, vacationing passengers of the ill-fated freighter,?Morris,?are picked up by the?H.M.S. Pandora?and sail into a cruise of metaphysical terror, madness, and death.
This suspense/thriller is set on a Caribbean cruise ship and Miami's Little Havana. Over 20 million people cruise each year. In recent years, over 150 people have disappeared from cruises. "Dead
His life destroyed because of a bad rap he took for murdering two guys to prevent a rape, Reid Bennett relocated to Murphy’s Harbor, a quaint little town in Canada. But was it really the quiet little
This is the true and horrifying account of the brutal torture and murder of the author’s brother and his long-time girlfriend forty years ago. In July 1978, two bodies were found in the sea off the co
Deputy Coroner Mattie Winston is starting to feel like she's in way over her head... As the single mom of an energetic toddler and an investigator working for the medical examiner's office in small-to
