Martha's Vineyard mysteries

In Martha's Vineyard, a feud starts between hunters and animal rights activists and there is a murder. Former policeman J.W. Jackson and his fiancee, nurse Zee Madieras, interrupt their fishing and romancing to restore peace and catch the man responsible. By the author of Cliff Hanger.

Former policeman J. W. Jackson, now a fisherman in Martha's Vineyard, has a fight with a state environmental officer over the closure of a beach during a film shoot. When the officer is murdered, Jackson is a suspect and must clear his name.

Local cases of arson on a slumlord's property in Martha's Vineyard become personal to J.W. Jackson when an unidentified victim is possibly an old friend of his.

Moving beyond established ideas of haunted Henry James, this book argues that death is as important a concept for understanding James's fiction as gender, sexuality and modernity, which have come to dominate James studies. Combining formal analysis and close reading with theoretical and historical approaches and focusing on key novels and tales from across James's career, Andrew Cutting explores five instances of Jamesian death: sacrifice, the corpse,...

When a vigilante's quest to end noise pollution in Martha's Vineyard ends in a murder, J.W. Jackson is enlisted by the local matriarch to prove that her son is not responsible for the killing.

J.W. Jackson and irascible environmentalist Henry Highsmith come to blows when J.W. parks his SUV too close to Highsmith's expensive bicycle--and when J.W. finds Highsmith's body in the sandtrap at a local golf course, he has to act fast to find the real culprit.

"With two friends in trouble and his own family receiving threats, J.W. Jackson must summon all of his investigative skills to try to restore order to his beloved Vineyard island home, where fishing and good food should always take precedence over murder."--from NoveList.