The Oscar-winning actor teams up with a shipwreck diving expert to spin a cinematic tale of nineteenth century pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure.In 1805, seventeen-year-old Jack O'Reilly sets sail with his parents from America to Cuba aboard the Perdido Star. But when tragedy strikes shortly after their arrival, Jack makes a desperate escape, rejoining the departing Star as a member of the crew. On his yearslong journey around the globe, he on...

LIFE, NOT DEATH, DROVE JUBAL YOUNG . . . but memories of his ma and pa, and his beautiful, bright sister are all he has left. Memories of the peaceful days before Jubal stumbled home with his .22, his blood running cold with fear, terror, and anger. When it was over, the homestead was half burned to the ground. Someone had to bury the bodies. Someone had to set things right.Now, as Jubal rides west into New Mexico, he remembers his family’s laughter and love, his pa’s wisdom, ma’s ...

Gene Hackman, acclaimed actor and author of Payback at Morning Peak, “takes aim at a clear target: telling a good story” (St. Augustine Record) in this gripping thriller that pits a devoted police sergeant against a predator who may cost her everything that matters.“I’ll say this for the last time. Take your hand off the shotgun.”In a tense standoff with a shopping mall shooter, Sergeant Juliette Worth has the suspect about to sur...

Eugene Allen Hackman (January 30, 1930 - February 17, 2025), a former US Marine, was an American actor with a career that spanned over four decades, winning two Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Hackman's two Oscars were for Best Actor for his role as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in William Friedkin's action thriller The French Connection (1971) and for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a villainous sheriff in Clint Eastwood's Western film Unforgiven (1992). He was also Oscar-nomina...

Jack O' Reilly is a 17-year-old New Englander who in 1805, sails with his parents on the Perdido Star to Cuba, his mother's birthplace, to claim the land she inherited. But for Jack, the trip that began with high hopes and the excitement of a new life, becomes a descent into violence and revenge. His parents murdered, their land confiscated, his own life nearly taken, Jack is forced to rejoin the Star as a member of the crew, sailing through the world's most treacherous waters under a drin...

July 1864. Union officer Nathan Parker has been imprisoned at nightmarish Andersonville prison camp in Georgia along with his soldiers. As others die around them, Nathan and his men hatch a daring plan to allow him to escape through a tunnel and make his way to Vicksburg, where he intends to alert his superiors to the imprisonment and push for military action. His efforts are blocked by higher-ups in the military, so Parker takes matters into his own hands. Together with a shady, dangerous...

The start of an epic new historical adventure series from Richard Cullen introducing The Black LionAs war approaches, the lion will roar…1213AD.King Richard the Lionheart is dead, and his brother, John Lackland, sits uneasily upon the throne of England.Across the sea, Prince Louis, heir to the powerful King Philip Augustus of France, looks to King John’s crown with a covetous eye.But King John must be wary of rebel...

Britain is at war with Napoleonic France, and Lieutenant Snowden RN is sent to Bermuda to commission a fast cedar built schooner, Oleander. In the Mediterranean, the French control the island of Corsica, having defeated the short lived Corsican Republic, and Pasquale Paoli, the Republic's leader, now an old man, is in exile in London. Snowden and Oleander are sent to Corsica to support a delicate and dangerous operation which could be of considerable assistance in defeating Bonaparte....

This classic mystery is " more than a mere crime puzzle. . . . It is a tragic event which deeply affects the destinies of those who are in any way involved" ( The New York Times).The road to her aunt's country house on Lake Michigan is dark and shrouded in fog. But it's a road Katie Warren knows well, having taken up residence with her Aunt Mina after losing her job during the stock market crash. But as she enters the gates to the gloomy ma...

The MURDER MYSTERY BOOK CLUB should have known better than to hold a Hen's Party on a luxury passenger train. It's not like trains and murder don't mix…When bride-to-be Alicia Finlay sees a body drop off the Indian Pacific in the dead of night, even her beloved Book Club think her mind is up to its usual tricks. After all, they've brought along not one but EIGHT iconic train mysteries to read while on an iconic train—in this case, a real-life locomotive that crosses Australia's wid...

Chosen as one of the Scotsman's Books of the Year 2024'One can confidently say that (Blood Roses and Blood Sacrifice) display an intelligence and ambition rare in Scottish fiction today' Scotsman'This is historical noir at its most potent and a series that you will never forget' Crime Time Book of the Month, November 2024One corpse, three separate identities and a city f...

**Nationally bestselling western authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone reunite no there’s nothing like a Christmas showdown in Texas.Johnstone Country. Where Miracles Need Bullets.**In this bold, new Western from the bestselling Johnstones, a lonely drifter finds himself snowbound with a lovely widow, her young son—and a gang of trigger-happy thieves . . .DON’T OPEN FIRE UNTIL CHRISTMASPatrick Foley is a haunted man. After l...