Sailing Thrillers

A classic summer vacation thriller from the most popular storyteller of our time. A mother and her three children struggle to survive on the most shocking sailing trip of their lives. Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last-ditch...

Mercenaries and Sex Traffickers in the Caribbean Phillip Davis gets a call from his friend and business partner, J.-P. Berger, a French arms dealer, asking for his help. J.-P.'s daughter, Dani, has gone missing in the Caribbean islands. Phillip, a retired Special Forces Colonel living in Martinique after years of active duty and mercenary work in the Caribbean countries, begins his search in St. Vincent and the Grenadines where Dani's iPhone was found. After some research, he discovers that Dani's troubles began when she jumped ship from a paid crew position on a private yacht and hitched a...

“Daddy, why isn’t that man swimming?” Stand-Alone story of a wealthy private equity investor and a greedy CEO's quest to maximize profit at any cost. The body floating near the family’s sailboat triggers a request for Steve Wilson to complete the dead man's due diligence assignment. Join Steve as he navigates a path between power-driven executives to uncover the truth about the accountant's body in Boothbay Harbor. Why are Steve’s requests for financial data stonewalled at every turn? Is it just arrogance and greed, or an attempt to hide something deeper? Can he trust the woman ...

The Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. Playground to the rich. However, there is something very unusual out to the west. The locals know but seldom talk about it. Jack Vincent and his superyacht ‘Jacaranda’ stumble on the secret and he and his crew learn the truth. They rescue a man from the past and attempt to take him home, over two hundred years back in time. Set in the present day and the time of Nelson, ‘Jacaranda’ mixes these two worlds in an adventure story that reaches its climax just as one of the Caribbean’s worst natural disasters occurs. But what would you ...

When an English tycoon dies mysteriously, he leaves a note naming six people who might have wanted him dead. Daisy Kean and PI Harry Montana team up to take the suspects - and also six red herrings - on a Mediterranean cruise, culminating at his beautiful villa on Capri, where his will is to be read and the killer unmasked. With the beautiful seaside settings plus the beginnings of a romance between loner Montana and wary Daisy, passions flare and the mystery deepens.

Finn is retired after a 20-odd-year career with an unnamed government agency, but he still handles a contract job for them once in a while. The series begins in Puerto Rico with Assassins and Liars, when Finn meets Mary.

Crispin is a mosaicist, a layer of bright tiles. Still grieving for the family he lost to the plaque, he lives only for his arcane craft. But an imperial summons from Valerius the Trakesian to Sarantium, the most magnificent place in the world, is difficult to resist. In a world half-wild and tangled with magic, a journey to Sarantium means a walk into destiny. Bearing with him a deadly secret and a Queen's seductive promise, guarded only by his own wits and a talisman from an alchemist's treasury, Crispin sets out for the fabled city. Along the way he will encounter a great beast.

After a 20 year career as an assassin for an unnamed government agency, Finn joined Phorcys, a private contractor providing permanent solutions when disreputable people cause problems for our government.

Trapped on a storm-damaged yacht, a grieving woman must conquer her worst fears and fight for her life, in a story described as The Shining on a yacht. Dr. Dagny Steele is on the verge of fulfilling her lifelong calling to become a pediatric surgeon, when the sudden death of her daughter sends her into a crushing depression.

When Washington, D.C.’s most powerful literary agent is publicly poisoned at a fancy book launch, hard-charging journalist—and former boxing champ—Martin Boundary steps into the ring to cover the story. He quickly learns that agents have more viscious enemies than satisfied clients. Meanwhile, his wife Twyla, a sharp Capitol Hill lawyer, is hunting a different kind of monster. Her lovely neighbor Honaire, a college sailing prodigy, vanished into thin air while caught in a viscious squall while sailing Twyla's sloop across the Chesapeake Bay. Police examining the beached craft suspect ...

'A white-knuckle descent from champagne and caviar to blood and murder. Toxic friendships, jealousy, private helicopters – I loved it! Lord of the Flies in a cocktail dress!' – RACHEL WOLF, Author of Five Nights...

#1 bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with another unforgettable unforgettable thriller featuring Gideon Crew. Gideon Crew—brilliant scientist, master thief—is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he...

"Kreinik effortlessly switches among various accents and emotions, keeping listeners riveted as she reveals the novel’s twists and turns." -- Booklist "Kreinik's range is highlighted as she seamlessly shifts among characters' various accents: a Brit's clipped consonants, a charming...

With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Lökholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it something more ominous?

Years ago, Beth Lathrop and her sister Kate suffered what they thought would be the worst tragedy of their lives the night both the famous painting Moonlight and their mother were taken. The detective assigned to the case, Conor Reid, swore to protect the sisters from then on. Beth moved on, throwing herself fully into the art world, running the family gallery, and raising a beautiful daughter with her husband Pete. Kate, instead, retreated into herself and took to the skies as a pilot, always on the run.

Treasure and Trouble in Antigua and Barbuda... Their guests deny it, but Dani Berger and Liz Chirac suspect that they’ve chartered Vengeance to search for sunken treasure. The two men are an odd pair. Nick Thompson’s a former Navy Seal, but Dani suspects he didn’t serve honorably. Gerald Yates is a successful writer from an old Southern family. He’s hired Thompson to assist in his research for a book. Yates claims to be looking for the wreck of Phaedra, a ship that was owned by an ancestor of his. Phaedra went down in a storm during the U.S. Civil War. She departed from Savannah, ...

Five college friends. One sailing trip. Fifteen days in open water. And something old waiting underneath. When maritime lawyer David Flynn loads his oldest friends onto his forty-two-foot sloop Second Chances for a routine eight-day passage off the Carolina coast, he has accounted for everything. The provisions are alphabetized. The float plan is filed. The emergency kit is double-stocked. David Flynn has built his life around the conviction that careful men don't get killed. A squall takes the rudder on the second morning. The radio dies an hour later. The Gulf Stream takes them east into ...

In 1823, on an island off the south coast of England, there are activities worse than smuggling and all the conflict points to one cruel and ruthless man. The women on the island call him the Dark Star. Lieutenant Karl Thorsen enlists the help of his old enemy, reformed smuggler Daniel Tynton who infiltrates the gang to defeat the evil that brings poverty to ‘the diamond isle’. Karl, entranced by a mysterious French woman, rescues her from the captivity of the Dark Star. The Dark Star takes his revenge. Readers' Favorite 5* Review: Author Anna Faversham has crafted a riveting romantic ...

What was supposed to be a dream life at sea soon turns into a nightmare when an unexpected guest arrives on the Carpe Diem. Mason and Olivia trade their lives on land for a new journey at sea. Mason was thrilled to begin his retired years on the houseboat he worked so hard to obtain. Though Olivia felt uneasy about their new quest, she was happy to support her husband’s biggest dream. The morning after throwing a boat warming party, the couple wake to an unknown guest sleeping on the sofa. He claims to be a friend of a friend from the party, but something unsettling keeps tugging at ...

Motion is life. Stillness is a death sentence. Oakley Brandt is an engineer who can calculate the load-bearing capacity of a bridge in his head, but he can’t handle the weight of his own failure. After freezing during his final exams, he takes a berth on the tall ship Spirit of Cadiz, hoping manual labor will silence the doubts in his mind. But the silence that finds him is not the kind that heals. It starts with a fog bank that swallows the horizon. When it lifts, the crew is gone. The Atlantic Ocean has vanished, replaced by a vast, grey sheet of viscous sludge. The stars are distorted....