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The Caribbean

The Caribbean
  • Author(s): Jacob Gelt Dekker
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From Columbus to the present day

After a life-changing diagnosis, Dutch entrepreneur Jacob Gelt Dekker decides to take a step into the unknown. Setting sail from his home in Key West, he embarks on an odyssey around the Caribbean islands, navigating treacherous waters and nations...

The Carnival

The Carnival
  • Author(s): Scarlett Brade
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The annual carnival on the Jarrett Estate in Jamaica was once a source of celebration. But when the heir to the estate was found dead a year ago, it became a night his mother would never forget. Determined to...

The Case of the Mad Doctor

The Case of the Mad Doctor
  • Author(s): P D Lennon
  • Location(s): Bristol, England, Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 1770s

1772: Barrister’s clerk, Isaiah Ollenu, an ambitious Black married father, is sent to Jamaica against his wishes with insurance agent Ruben Ashby, a pious bachelor. Finding missing people is the goal, but confronted by prejudice, untoward characters and vengeful...

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

The Cemetery of Untold Stories
  • Author(s): Julia Alvarez
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland–the Dominican Republic–that Kirkus Reviews calls a “rich and moving saga” and Shelf Awareness calls “a...

The Comedians

The Comedians
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt ‘Papa Doc’ and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man...

The Corpse with the Crystal Skull

The Corpse with the Crystal Skull
  • Author(s): Cathy Ace
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welsh Canadian globetrotting sleuth, and professor of criminal psychology, Cait Morgan, is supposed to be “celebrating” her fiftieth birthday in Jamaica with her ex-cop husband Bud Anderson. But when the body of the luxury estate’s owner is discovered locked...

The Crook Factory

The Crook Factory
  • Author(s): Dan Simmons
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Era(s): 1930s

The Cuban Scar

The Cuban Scar
  • Author(s): Gabriel Hemingway, Nick Padron
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970-1980s

Inspired by factual events, The Cuban Scar begins when a young New York musician, Nelson Montes, discovers a videotape recording made by his deceased father detailing his participation in the John F. Kennedy assassination, “The greatest unsolved crime of...

The Dahlia Suite

The Dahlia Suite
  • Author(s): Carinn Jade
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Thriller

In a riveting new novel from the acclaimed author of The Astrology House, three women come together to investigate a string of haunting disappearances in a tropical paradise. When Paige arrives at Sueños, the Caribbean’s most exclusive resort on...

The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica

The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica
  • Author(s): Ian Thomson
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain’s wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962. Jamaica is now a country in despair....

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