A BAFFLING VICTORIAN MYSTERY on Land and Sea
“Brilliant descriptions…A complex mystery…exciting action makes this book very difficult to put down,” raves the 5-Star review from Readers' Favorite
In 1881, an old diary is found on the shelves of an antiquities shop in Victorian London. Hired to translate it from its original French is Julian North, a young file clerk for the London Times. He spends weeks poring over the brittle pages, uncovering the story of an ill-fated idealist, an epic sea battle, and an abandoned army lost in the Egyptian desert. But, hidden within a puzzling code, the diary holds secrets. A mysterious visitor and a night of violence soon reveal just how dangerous these secrets are — to Julian and to the world. From a safe but aimless existence, Julian is pulled into a fire-storm as grand causes clash around him on the world stage. It's a game of high stakes where, not only Julian's fate but the fate of nations, hang in the balance.
a thrilling mystery in the world of beauty, passion, and evil.
Nate and Peter had been pals since the fifth grade. But Peter’s fate had been decided long before that.
Once promising artist, Peter Caruso, has not been seen or heard from in five years. When he is found shot to death in a dingy New York City apartment, Nate Parks, his boyhood friend, is horrified. Who on earth would want to kill Peter? And where had Peter been for those five long years? As Nate deals with his own struggles in the New York City art scene, his search for answers only leads to more questions, about Peter and about the paintings he left behind. Risking more than he realizes, Nate works his way into the dark and dangerous world of a Peter Caruso he never knew. It’s within that world that he finally uncovers long-buried secrets, eventually learning the truth behind Peter’s death and the truth behind a group of forty masterpieces that come to be known as The Caruso Collection.
danger, mystery, and an ASTONISHING discovery
Jake Barrows is a down-on-his-luck under-achiever living in Miami. Out of luck and out of options, he signs on as an escort driver for a trucker hauling an oversized load to Tucson. He senses that something is seriously wrong with this gig but the money is too good to pass up. The trip goes smoothly at first, then violence erupts on a lonely stretch of the I-10 in Texas. Suddenly, instead of worrying about money, Jake is worried about just staying alive. Someone is after the canvas-covered cargo and they’ll kill to get their hands on it - but why?
Driven first by fear, then by something he doesn’t quite understand, Jake tries to chase down the truth. Over hundreds of miles he’s drawn ever deeper into a high-stakes conflict and ever closer to a scientist whose historic project has spun wildly out of control.
The world is about to change, and Jake Barrows is about to become, The Scientist’s Accomplice.
a psychological mystery thriller
Doctor Lydia Thornhill led a tormented life and died in 1920 with her hands tied to a kitchen chair.
Though she’d once been famous for her work in the budding field of psychology, her name had become tarnished and, at the time, few had taken note of her passing. Over the decades, Doctor Thornhill’s work became nothing more than a footnote in college textbooks. But now, because of a police detective in present day Boston, that is about to change.
His name is Ben Marshall and he’s just been suspended from the force for firing his weapon at something he thinks he saw, but couldn’t have. When psychologist Amelia Silvers becomes involved in his case, Ben begins to doubt his sanity. His search for answers uncovers a past he never knew. It’s a past that draws him north into Maine’s deep woods where Dr. Thornhill spent her final years. What he finds there will give her the world-wide fame she’d always desired, but it could also cost Ben his life.