Island Crime

A rushed rescue mission doesn't go as planned for retired Marine Jesse McDermitt and the crew of Gaspar's Revenge. The two kidnap victims are rescued, but they'd rather be taken back to the Jamaican drug runners who were hired to kill them than return home to laid-back Beaufort, South Carolina, and give the man who wants them dead the chance to hire someone more competent. Crisscrossing hundreds of miles of open Atlantic Ocean, with a weather eye on a powerful hurricane, Jesse and his crew come up with a plan to lure out the man behind the double murder plot.

Paradise isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. Few people know this as well as Jesse McDermitt, retired Marine and former government operative. In the aftermath of an intense mission in coastal Mexico, Jesse wants nothing more than to get back to his boat; to just sail away and forget all about the firefight and his warrior past. Jesse is forced to don the warrior’s mask once again. This time to catch a ghoulish killer who is stalking the villages and jungles outside Belize City.

Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians--who are pretty much one and the same. Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic.

Andrea “Andi” Silvers is starting to feel like this tiny fishing village of Coffin Cove, on the Vancouver coast, just might be home. She’s living with Hephzibah and sort of dating Harry. Her job at The Gazetteis going well. Things are looking up. Then, the body of a young woman is found on nearby Hope Island, where Hephzibah and Harry’s mother moved to when they were children. Andi sets out to get the scoop on the story. She wants to be the one to identify the body and to find out what happened.

Key West’s sultry summer heat isn't for the faint of heart. But Michal Grabowski is running from a Pittsburgh cocaine dealer intent on killing him in a slow and painful manner, and Key West is the end of the road. Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt enjoys the summer heat and quiet solitude of his tiny island home in the back country. When Jesse discovers that Michal’s would-be killer is connected to recent murders in the Bahamas, he agrees to help the young man. Jesse doesn’t like murderers, smelly crack monsters or drug dealers running amok in his territory.

Hidden behind the crystal seas and beautiful beaches of a Greek Island dark and dangerous secrets lurk. Beckett has had his fill of adrenaline fueled criminal investigation and with a broken body and damaged career goes to the Greek Island of Farou to head up the Criminal Investigation Bureau. Serious crime is rare, the weather is great and the beer is cold but his retirement is cut short when a pagan cult resurrects and bodies start showing up.

Alibi Island is a legendary paradise hidden away deep in international waters. The only law is money. You’ve got to pay to play, but it’s all fair game if you’re rich enough. It's a lucrative business. What happens on the island stays on the island. That’s the promise. But it is a lie. Everything that happens is recorded. All of that footage becomes blackmail material down the line, as the island's secret power brokers look to cement their stranglehold on power. And when a senator’s daughter’s disappearance is linked to the island, all of its darkest secrets are at risk.

Have you ever had a rash? I’m talking one of the bad rashes. You know, the crusty kind that ooze puss and fester under the surface of your skin? The kind you gotta see a doctor for. Well, I’ve got a rash. It’s a bad one. And her name is Erika Wild. I’ve been told I can’t pick at my rash. I can’t cuss at either.

Coral branches rarely wear a wristwatch. That was Jesse McDermitt’s first thought when he found a partially denuded human arm, teeming with crab, lobster, and fish life, during his morning ocean swim. The discovery of a drifting mega-yacht the following day while fishing the Gulf Stream, causes quite a stir among the many alphabet agencies of the federal government, not to mention one shaggy canine.

As the New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with [Chris] Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century. When...

Die Leiche eines Kindes wird in der Parkanlage eines Wohnblocks entdeckt. Es ist ein frostiger Januartag, und die herbeigerufenen Beamten der Kripo Reykjavík sind schockiert: Der kleine, dunkelhäutige Junge liegt mit dem Gesicht nach unten, im eigenen Blut festgefroren, offenbar brutal ermordet.

In einer hellen isländischen Sommernacht wird die nackte Leiche eines jungen Mädchens gefunden. Sie liegt auf dem mit Blumen geschmückten Grab des isländischen Freiheitskämpfers Jón Sigurdsson. Kommissar Erlendur und seine Kollegen Sigurður Óli und Elinborg von der Kripo Reykjavík finden schnell heraus, dass es sich bei der Toten um eine Drogenabhängige handelt. Warum aber wurde die Leiche gerade auf dieses Grab gelegt?

Was zunächst aussieht wie ein typisch isländischer Mord, schäbig, sinnlos und schlampig ausgeführt, erweist sich als überaus schwieriger Fall für Erlendur von der Kripo Reykjavík. Wer ist der tote alte Mann in der Souterrainwohnung in Nordermoor?

An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey’s wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum in...

In einer Baugrube am Stadtrand von Reykjavík werden menschliche Knochen gefunden. Wer ist der Tote, der hier verscharrt wurde? Wurde er lebendig begraben? Erlendur und seine Kollegen von der Kripo Reykjavík werden mit grausamen Details konfrontiert. Stück für Stück rollen sie Ereignisse aus der Vergangenheit auf und bringen Licht in eine menschliche Tragödie, die bis in die Gegenwart hineinreicht.

Der junge, grüblerisch veranlagte Erlendur Sveinsson hat vor kurzem seine Tätigkeit als Streifenpolizist in Reykjavík aufgenommen. In den Nachtschichten lernt er die dunklen Seiten der isländischen Hauptstadt kennen: betrunkene Autofahrer, häusliche Gewalt, Einbrüche, Drogenhandel. Ihn bewegt das Schicksal von Randfiguren der Gesellschaft. An einem Wochenende wird ein Obdachloser in einem Tümpel am Stadtrand ertrunken aufgefunden, und eine junge Frau verschwindet spurlos.

Ein Toter wird im Kleifarsee bei Reykjavík entdeckt. Nach einem Erdbeben hatte sich der Wasserspiegel gesenkt und ein menschliches Skelett sichtbar werden lassen. Es ist an ein russisches Sendegerät angekettet. Ein natürlicher Tod Ein Toter wird im Kleifarsee bei Reykjavík entdeckt. Nach einem Erdbeben hatte sich der Wasserspiegel gesenkt und ein menschliches Skelett sichtbar werden lassen. Es ist an ein russisches Sendegerät angekettet. Ein natürlicher Tod ist ausgeschlossen. Wer ist der Ermordete?

In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical, chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace.

Detective Inspector Jack Dawes and his bride, Corrie, join eight other holidaymakers bound for a tiny Greek island, ready for a bit of sun, sea and sand. Mayhem ensues when a storm destroys the island’s primitive communications, cutting it off from civilisation. It’s a perfect opportunity for murder. First one victim is poisoned, followed swiftly by another. Then a woman is found badly beaten in a quiet cove and a body is found in a grotto to St. Sophia, the island’s patron saint. The island’s visitors are being picked off one by one.

A Spanish treasure ship is driven by a hurricane onto the rocky shoreline of Elbow Cay in September of 1566. Few of the crew survive, but they manage to salvage most of the treasure and bury it on the island, leaving a clue to its location in a chest placed in the boughs of a young mangrove tree. Four hundred forty years later, Jesse McDermitt and his friends solve the riddle that was hidden inside a chest found encased in the now-ancient mangrove.