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Spy Island

Spy Island
  • Author(s): Sophie Schiller
  • Location(s): St Thomas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

A Girl. A Deserter. An Island full of Spies. At the height of the Great War in 1916, Abigail Maduro arrives in the Danish West Indies to live with her Aunt Esther, a bad tempered spinster, and her houseful...

Swimming with the dead

Swimming with the dead
  • Author(s): Kathy Brandt
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Murder runs deep in this thrilling Underwater Investigation series featuring C.S.I. diver Hannah Sampson. Summoned to the sun-drenched beaches of the British Virgin Islands, Hannah Sampson is fully prepared to face unknowable dangers beneath the crystal-clear waters of an...

The Columbus Affair

The Columbus Affair
  • Author(s): Steve Berry
  • Location(s): Jamaica, Prague, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 15th Century and modern

Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun – literally. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his reputation. And – what hurts most – he knows the story which ruined...

The Cruise

The Cruise
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A glamorous ship. A mysterious cast of passengers. And a New Year’s Eve party that goes horribly wrong… During a New Year’s Eve party on a large cruise ship in the Caribbean, the ship’s dancer, Lola, disappears. The ship...

The Eyes of Greed

The Eyes of Greed
  • Author(s): Beverly Samuelson
  • Location(s): New Jersey, St Maarten
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The story takes place in a small seaside town in New Jersey. It begins innocent enough with a town celebration. The story turns to murder among other sinister events over a period of time. The events tell of how...

The Feast of the Goat

The Feast of the Goat
  • Author(s): Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics. In The Feast of the Goat he offers a vivid recreation of the...

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  • Author(s): Oscar Hijuelos
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1940s onwards

It’s 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls...

The Night Manager

The Night Manager
  • Author(s): John le Carré
  • Location(s): Cairo, The Bahamas
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): 20th Century

At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities – about an international businessman at the hotel with...

The Sugar Barons

The Sugar Barons
  • Author(s): Matthew Parker
  • Location(s): Barbados, West Indies
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1600s onwards

In the early 1600s, the West Indies was a place of extraordinary danger and opportunity. Parer’s often gripping history charts the growth of this venal, violent society over 200 years, and the effect of the islands on British, European...

The Tangled Web

The Tangled Web
  • Author(s): J P Lane
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When top Caribbean reporter Lauren Anderson gets on the trail of a major story involving government ties to drug cartels, she steps into a world where nothing is as it seems. Her aunt, who happens to be a government...

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