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Reach for a different Sun

Reach for a different Sun
  • Author(s): Jenni O'Connor
  • Location(s): England, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s to present

When retired Jamaican campaigner and lobbyist Mary Odell dies suddenly, her niece, Monique – a London-based journalist – suspects foul play. Her misgivings lead her deep into the murky waters of Jamaica’s turbulent past, opening up a Pandora’s box...

Revolution Sunday

Revolution Sunday
  • Author(s): Wendy Guerra
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cleo, scion of a once-prominent Cuban family and a promising young writer in her own right, travels to Spain to collect a prestigious award. There, Cuban expats view her with suspicion assuming she’s an informant for the Castro regime....

Rum Justice

Rum Justice
  • Author(s): Jolien Harmsen
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When ‘Smiley’ Riley Jackson, the handsome water-taxi driver, turns up at sea with his face chewed away by fish and a bullet wound in his chest, the finger of suspicion quickly points to the Cunninghams, wealthy Americans visiting the...

Rum, Cigars, and Corpses

Rum, Cigars, and Corpses
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

After more than half a century U.S. citizens can once again visit Cuba. What’s it like? Rum, Cigars, and Corpses, available from Amazon Kindle in both paperback and e-book formats, has the answer. This suspenseful mystery was inspired when...

Saint X

Saint X
  • Author(s): Alexis Schaltkin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days later Alison’s body is found in...

School of Instructions

School of Instructions
  • Author(s): Ishion Hutchinson
  • Location(s): Middle East, West Indies
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers...

Sea Wife

Sea Wife
  • Author(s): Amity Gaige
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her...

Seaborne

Seaborne
  • Author(s): Nuala O'Connor
  • Location(s): Caribbean, Kinsale, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1700s

1703, Kinsale, County Cork. Anne Coleman is the illegitimate child of a local lawyer and his maid; disguised as ‘Anthony’ to protect reputations, the mask suits Anne just fine. But, fixated on boats and the sea, she struggles to...

She Started It

She Started It
  • Author(s): Sian Gilbert
  • Location(s): The Bahamas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Destination Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the hen do to end all hen dos. And you’re invited… Poppy Greer is getting married and four of her old schoolmates are to be her trusted bridesmaids. They may have drifted but true friendships last a...

She’s Mine

She’s Mine
  • Author(s): Claire S Lewis
  • Location(s): Caribbean, New York City (NYC), Oxford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Scarlett falls asleep on a Caribbean beach she awakes to her worst nightmare – Katie is gone. With all fingers pointed to her Scarlett must risk everything to clear her name. As Scarlett begins to unravel the complicated...

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