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There are seven missing world treasures: The Amber Room, Sappho’s Poems, the Florentine Diamond, Faberge Eggs, Crown Jewels of Ireland, Art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum…and the Honjo Masamune. At the end of World War II, Japanese citizens were required to turn over weapons. Among them was one of the most famous swords ever made: the Honjo Masamune. The last owner, Tokugawa Iemasa, had the Honjo Masamune delivered to a Tokyo police station. After that, the legendary sword disappeared, and the fate of the Japanese national treasure remains unknown. Art Professor Dov Markov is ...

Leonardo DaVinci devised a stratagem to preserve a nude masterwork from destruction by powerful forces of de l'Inquisition. Five centuries later, art professor, Dov Markov, embarks on a dangerous search for the lost Da Vinci painting. Markov confronts ruthless art traffickers, the Russian Mafia and a secret religious sect the 'Holy Madmen.' “Fact-filled mystery, laced with surprises.” —Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers

After the brutal murder of a Korean War veteran, Fernandez’s investigation uncovers a malignant injustice, a massacre of innocent Korean civilians and a government cover-up.

On July 29th, 1715, the ill-fated Spanish treasure fleet of King Philip V left Cuba and sailed into history. While navigating the Florida Straits, the armada was struck by a hurricane. All eleven galleons were destroyed. Millions in gold, silver, and jewelry were scattered on the reefs and sands off the Florida coast. More than 700 people perished in one of the worst sea disaster of all time. Over the years treasure salvagers swapped tales of sunken fortunes. One story dealt with a life-sized gold statue of a Madonna and Christ Child. Ex FBI agent Frank Fernandez is called upon to ...

After a major hurricane hits Florida, a security guard is found murdered and a break-in reported in posh condominium apartment. Fernandez is enlisted to investigate the murder and the loss of stolen Picasso artwork.

ON NOVEMBER 17, 1986, a young woman in northern Alaska claimed she saw a UFO, after which she had a memory blackout and awakened naked, confused — and pregnant. Her child was given up for adoption. Thirty-four years later, and dying of cancer, the woman requested Frank Fernandez’s help in finding her lost son and proving she wasn’t the breeder of a human hybrid. ON NOVEMBER 17, 1986, Captain Kenju Terauchi, a Japan Airlines pilot, reported sighting an unidentified object while flying over the North Slope of Alaska. The sightings of the UFOs

An airliner crashes— no survivors. The cause— geese ingested into engines. A thousand miles away, a five-year-old savant is sketching geese. This heartbreaking accident unleashes Fernandez’s son’s latent psychic powers. Amid national crisis and murder, the relationship between a father and his autistic son evolves at the heart of this riveting thriller.

The Return of the Scorpion A spy’s past casts a long shadow. In Fort Pierce, Florida, a former CIA operative, code-named, Scorpion, is living under an assumed identity. Against his will, the Scorpion is summoned back to the Agency and dispatched on an urgent mission he cannot refuse, to a place called Armageddon. “A pulse quickening race-against-time spy thriller.” —Patrick Lennon, Wolf Creek

The President asks retired FBI agent Frank Fernandez to investigate the disappearance of her elderly mother from a Fort Pierce nursing facility. Fernandez can trust no one as he tries to discover who is behind the plot to destabilize the American Presidency. “Fascinating, Tense, and Twisty…Hard to put down.” —Muriel Dobbin, Washington Times

Out of the shadows of the Everglades comes this tale of murders. Frank Fernandez had been elected to Okeechobee County Sheriff when a famous author was found handcuffed and murdered. The author was finishing a new book about John Hopkins Ashley, the ‘Swamp Bandit’s’ buried treasure. In the 1920s, Ashley was a famous bank robber. His gang stole over $100,000 in gold bars; current value $12,000,000. Sheriff Fernandez was called upon to investigate those merciless searchers for the Ashley gang’s treasure.

In 1915, Gemany launched an offensive against the Ypres salient, a bulge in the Allied lines in Belgium. The Canadian 1st Division valiantly defended this position, but they paid a high price: 6,000 casualties over the four-day battle. In this historical fiction, an American joined the Canadian Army seeking glory and excitement. What Christopher Campbell encountered was the bloody, slaughter pits of Ypres and the dark waters of politics. In 2015, a Belgium farmer uncovered bones buried in a makeshift mud grave. Campbell’s remains were identified by his I.D. disc and west Point ring. ...

There’s a double murder in a Florida eldercare facility called the Green House. A national project creating small communities of 7-10 elders. Twenty-five-years-ago one of the victims won a National Book Award for his investigative book about the Isabella Stewart Gardner robbery in Boston: the world’s largest unsolved art theft. He was poisoned. The other victim had a pawn shop in Boston at the time of the Gardner robbery. He was stabbed to death. There’s talk of a serial killer. Frank Fernandez’s father, Louis is one of the residents in the Green House. Fernandez is drawn into the ...

A bestial murder occurs in a fashionable Palm Beach spa. Blood on the wall; owl feathers on the floor. The police are baffled. It falls to retired psychologist Maxwell Wolfe, with the help of his wife Millie, to work their way through this macabre mystery. “A bloody good thriller.” —Gene Hull, Scripps Newspapers

Detective Ray Santos once led with fearless, almost reckless resolve in the 75th Ranger Parachute Battalion in Afghanistan. Today he works deep undercover for the LAPD. His former commanding officer, California Fire Marshal Wade McCabe summons him to assist on a case unlike anything he could imagine. McCabe reveals a deadly problem: suspected murder and arson linked to the elite Redding smokejumpers of the Sacramento Valley. A veteran jumper plunged to his death when both parachutes suspiciously failed. Accelerants proved that three massive wildfires—the Park, Borel, and Lake Fires were ...

A real 137-carat diamond vanished from history. A murdered woman. A disgraced detective. A secret worth killing for. When a fire tears through a London home, Detective Constable Kate O’Connor risks her life to save a young girl trapped inside. The act earns her a scar—and a demotion. Now banished to the basement “Library of Lost Lives,” Kate is expected to quietly review forgotten cold cases until she learns to behave. But Kate has never been quiet. Assigned to the unsolved Holland Park murder, she discovers something the original investigators missed: the victim was killed with a ...

In Okeechobee County, Florida two Indians are murdered. One, who heads the Seminole Casino in Brighton, the other a Cherokee lawyer. The violent crimes cannot be solved, even with the FBI involved. Frank Fernandez son Charley, an aspiring Cherokee medicine man, uses his latent psychic powers to reveal the Whisper of the Spirit.

The theft of the Irish Crown Jewels is one of the most fascinating and mysterious crimes in Irish history. Dublin in 1907 was a city divided economically and politically. The Dublin Castle, the center of British power in Ireland, was getting ready for the imminent visit of King Edward VII. Days before the visit, the Irish Crown Jewels mysteriously went missing. In the ensuing chaos, suspicions are rife and theories proliferate. The police believe it to be an inside job. A Scotland Yard investigation leads to a web of political and sexual intrigue that comes dangerously close to the crown ...

Two grisly murders are inextricably linked to the past. The body of a Venetian museum curator is found floating in the Grand Canal. Five thousand miles away, the body of a CIA operative is found floating in the Ft. Pierce Inlet. The legendary agent code-named The Venetian was the 34th and last descendant of Venice’s greatest son, Marco Polo. “A rarity—historical fiction as enlightening as it is entertaining.” —Sidney Offit, Curator of the George Polk Awards