Ocean Crimes

The places designed to make you forget your regular life are often the hunting grounds for those who want to end it entirely. From the bright boardwalks of summer tourist destinations to the isolated sandy dunes of remote peninsulas, a sinister reality hides just beneath the picturesque surface of popular holiday spots. Families arrive hauling coolers and expecting uncomplicated warmth, completely unaware of the grim histories permanently woven into the salt air and rocky shorelines. This collection examines the terrifying intersection of beautiful landscapes and brutal human violence ...

Author and historian Michael Esslinger spent seven years conducting interviews with Whitey Bulger following his capture in 2011. Their conversations captured Bulger's memories of an early life in crime, his years as a prisoner on Alcatraz, and his life as one of the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives. The Last Interviews is a collection of Bulger's own memories, transcribed directly from personal interviews that chronicle a lifetime spent in crime. It is a scrapbook weaved together from prison documents, personal letters, and candid conversations that offer intimate details about his life.

A Murdered Heiress, Death on the High Seas, a doomed High School Reunion and Anonymous Notes keep divorced baker Jenny King on her toes in this four book murder mystery anthology. 5 stars - 'I was reading these books like eating potato chips, too fast!' When forty four year old Jenny King moved to a remote island for a second chance at life, she didn't know it would involve murder. She's working at the Boardwalk Cafe, baking sweet treats to forget the bitter pill that is her life. Then a stranger's body washes up on the beach and her aunt is arrested. Compelled by circumstances, Jenny goes ...

Fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case in the remarkable new novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author John Sandford. An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat...

Under the cover of night on June 11, 1962, using only crude homemade tools, Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin tunneled their way out of Alcatraz, America's most secure maximum security prison. Enacting a complex escape plan, the trio broke free from the cellblock, made it undetected past patrolling guards, inflated homemade life vests and a raft, and set sail into a foggy history.

When we leave home, we sign an unspoken contract with trust. We step onto foreign flights, board luxury cruise liners, and drive down remote, sun-drenched highways with the assumption that the civilized safety nets of our daily lives will travel with us. We are dangerously mistaken. This gripping collection examines what happens when travelers step off the mapped grid and into the path of opportunistic predators, geographic traps, and institutional cover-ups. From the isolated outback asphalt of Australia to the neon labyrinths of Tokyo, these immersive, detailed accounts investigate the ...

All Adrienne wanted was a fun new job on a cruise ship—instead, she’s dealt three big surprises. "Winters will have you giggling into your book!" Surprise number one, wonderful: Her best friend Samantha has joined the cruise! Surprise number two, also quite good: the First Officer is rather handsome. Surprise number three, definitely not good: Samantha is suspected of murdering a VIP cruise passenger. Throw in a few more surprises—an over-the-top boss, a potentially homicidal chef, and a blast from Adrienne’s past—and this cruise might end up being Adrienne’s last. Join Adrienne...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER INSPIRATION FOR THE MGM+ ORIGINAL SERIES ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family.The Emperor of...

Esper may dress the part. She has her own ship. She even carries a blaster - not that she ever uses it. But she violates the cardinal rule of the galaxy’s most cold-blooded profession: get paid. At least she's not alone. Her partner, Kubu, is an alien who gets mistaken for a dog. One is a wizard on the run from her past. The other is a lovable eating machine. Between them, they haven’t got a ruthless bone in their bodies. But when a client hires them, they’ll do whatever it takes to bring a target home safely. This time, it’s a teenage kidnapping victim.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under...

A mystery taking place in the Florida Keys, Ocean Floors is the second installment of the story of lottery winner turned private detective Dan Coast. In Ocean Floors, Dan's chance meeting with a beautiful young woman leads him and his trusted sidekick, Red, down a road of murder and kidnapping. Join Dan and Red as they try and solve the murder while searching for a missing friend.

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child, Agent Pendergast is faced with the most inexplicable challenge of his career when severed feet are found floating in the Gulf of Mexico. A startling crime with dozens of victims. To the horror of the quiet resort town of Sanibel Island...

A classic summer thriller from the most popular storyteller of our time. When New York law student Jack Mullen learns that his brother has drowned, he knows it can't be an accident . . . Jack Mullen is in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean...

'I hung at the edge of my seat to find out who done it.' Widowed cafe owner Anna Butler uncovers shocking secrets from her past as she tries to prove she did not murder her husband. Packed with twists and turns you never saw coming, every book in this series leaves readers wanting more. Leena Clover presents a heartwarming cozy mystery series about family, friendship and the pursuit of a lifelong dream. Recently widowed Anna Butler is busy testing cupcake recipes, trying to cope with the loss of her beloved husband. When the license for her dream cafe is rejected, Anna realizes the local...

On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are the painter Scott Burroughs and a...

He left his wife to rot in a Mexican prison. Now the only way to save her is at the bottom of the sea. Salvador was a cartel boss. The kind who moved product through three continents and never got his hands dirty. Then everything collapsed, and he ran — leaving Rosa to take the fall for all of it. She's been behind bars for years. The only thing that can buy her freedom sits inside a titanium case, locked in the cargo hold of a sunken narco ship called the Aguila Blanca. Fifty-eight meters down, in the pitch-black waters off the Tubbataha Reefs. He's assembled a crew on his yacht La ...

Action Adventure Thriller Box Set: Books 1 – 3 Desert FIRE When maritime archaeologist and former Recon Marine Dr. Chase Steele uncovers a radioactive artifact from an ancient shipwreck, he triggers a deadly global manhunt. It is the ignition key to a pre-Ice Age machine beneath the Giza Plateau. Hunted by a ruthless billionaire intent on releasing the Great Pyramid’s true power, Steele and his partner Kai must race from the depths of the Libyan Sea to the burning skies of Cairo to stop a cataclysm that will erase civilization. FROZEN SECRET Hired to recover a doomed 1947 Navy squadron ...

Celebrity Groom Prime Suspect In Shocking Murder Recently divorced Jenny King is forced to be a bridesmaid at a posh country club wedding. When a dead body drops from the sky and lands on the cake, the famous groom comes under the spotlight. Jenny uncovers a web of lies and deceit in a world where popularity and fame are the only path to success. Almost everyone from the wedding party has a reason to kill. Jenny talks to a host of colorful characters in her search for the truth. Can she pinpoint the real killer and save the innocent in time? Meanwhile, Pelican Cove is a finalist in the ...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too...

The White Lotus meets The Last Thing He Told Me in this domestic mystery about a luxury sailboat found floating adrift in the ocean and the secrets of the missing family who set sail aboard it weeks before, with fantastic narration by Ina Barrón. "No One Aboard is a riveting, astonishing debut...