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Stone Barrington novels volume 3
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Attorney Stone Barrington's life takes an unexpected turn when he travels to a Caribbean island for a yachting vacation only to become involved in the murder trial of Allison Manning, a woman who set sail from the other side of the Atlantic in the company of her husband and arrived in St. Marks without him.
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 14
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 10
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Miss Marple mystery volume 14
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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Miss Marple, enjoying a well-earned rest on the Caribbean Island of St. Honore, far from her busy life in the village of St. Mary Mead, meets Major Palgrave. He tells her the strange story of a suspected double murderer. Just as Major Palgrave is about to show the murderer's picture to her, he looks over her shoulder, appears startled, and changes the subject. The next morning, a servant finds him dead in his room. As rumors begin to circulate, Miss...
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Tully Mars finds himself regretting a decision to help find the missing lens belonging to the Cayo Loco lighthouse, in a madcap, tequila-inspired adventure featuring such characters as Indian shaman Ix-Nay, centenarian Cleopatra Highbourne, and boatman Captain Kirk. The beloved traveler/troubadour offers up a plate of stories from his world of seaplanes, tropical isles, and wayward adventures. A Salty Piece of Land takes readers to a warm beach and...
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The island couldn't be more charming with its stretches of white beaches, crystalline lagoons, and exotic bikini-clad beauties. But with three dead bodies and a voodoo priest, I had a hard time concentrating on sightseeing. It seemed superstitious to me, since nobody could solve the puzzling cause of their deaths. So with the assistance of my own lovely native doll, I had my work cut out for me-and that was simply managing to evade the long voodoo...
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In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly- completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea...
7) Second wind
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IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart finds his life in danger after the plane he is riding in on an adventure into the eye of a Class V hurricane is destroyed, stranding him on Trox Island where he discovers a notebook that contains very sensitive information.
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Stone Barrington arrives in St. Marks on a sailing vacation when a beautiful young woman sails into the harbor alone. The problem is, though she arrived alone, she had departed the other side of the Atlantic in the company of her husband, a well-known writer, who is no longer in evidence.
10) Crackdown
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"Nick Breakspear, boat-bum son of eminent Shakespearean actor Tom Breakspear, chose the Bahamas for the easy life, which ended abruptly the day he ran across a luxury yacht just twenty miles from the infamous drug barons' hideaway at Murder Cay. The rest of the crew smell danger, but Nick's not the sort of man to turn a blind eye. Suddenly he finds himself an unwilling conscript in an all-out drugs war, trapped between enemies as lethally ruthless...
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When retired Southern sheriff-turned-New York City detective John Le Brun and his wife, Lordis, set sail in 1910 for a long-awaited honeymoon on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, they expect to find relaxation in paradise. However, they soon discover they?ve been lured to the island in part to tout its attributes as a burgeoning vacation retreat to wealthy investors back home. Instead of finding tranquility among the tropical isle?s quaint villages...
13) Havana storm
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
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"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
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Newly widowed Harriet MacIver has just taken on her first travel writing assignment -- rating an adventure cruise in the Caribbean. Add a gaggle of college students on a mini semester-at-sea voyage, a rusting hulk of a ship that misses more ports than it makes, and two deaths by poisonous butterfly, and Harriet is off and running on a hair-raising adventure. And that's before two coeds, Kate and Carly, go missing -- Carly being her boss's daughter....
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