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Awash by Dawn Lee McKenna
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Bones don't float, no."In the quiet, coastal town of Apalachicola, the past is never far behind, and secrets don't always stay buried.When a young girl is attacked, Lt... -
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Rising Water by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen a group of strangers purchase land on Tortola and Norman Island to set up a commune, the locals simply write them off as an odd sort—until one of their bloated bodies washes up on the shore of a nearby resort island. As luck would have it, Jesse McDermitt is visiting a friend on Norman Island after tracking a terrorist submarine from the Windward Islands... -
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Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury by Graham Brown, Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel... -
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Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea by Dirk Cussler
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAnother fabulous read featuring heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordano from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.The next adventure featuring NUMA Director Dirk Pitt... -
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Conflicted by Lori Matthews
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of the Callahan Security Series.Meet Elias Mason of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.Team RECON has a new headquarters now—Miami, Florida, which also happens to be Elias’s hometown. He’s been avoiding his past like the plague, but there are some things you can’t outrun... -
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Dead Wake by Dawn Lee McKenna
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsDIY has a sinister component in historic Apalachicola, FloridaWhen the local florists find a dead guy in their wall, it opens up a decades-old missing persons case. It also opens up a Pandora’s box of secrets - secrets that might have ramifications for Sheriff’s Office investigator Maggie Redmond... -
![Montello High: School of Gangsters by Shiela May Familaran (sielalstreim), Chris Rey San Pedro]()
Montello High: School of Gangsters by Shiela May Familaran (sielalstreim), Chris Rey San Pedro
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHigh School is a time to be carefree and happy. Ngunit matutuklasan ni Summer Leondale na hindi ito ang kaso sa Montello High, a school where nothing seems to be normal at kung saan lahat ay puno ng tensiyon at aksiyon. Try as she may to stay away from trouble, Summer always finds herself caught in the middle of two rival gangs: Black Government and Dark Monarch... -
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Fallen King by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe quiet and solitude found in the back country and wetlands of south Florida has been shattered. Someone is using explosives to fish the ecologically fragile patch reefs in the shallow waters of Florida Bay, north of the Keys. Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt doesn't like explosions in his backyard... -
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Just Follow The Money by Jinx Schwartz
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she’s not afraid to use it! She’s been visiting France for a couple of months, barging on the Canal du Midi with her boyfriend, Jenks Jenkins She hit the hot spots in the South of France, ate great food, drank fine wine, and foiled a terrorist plot: all the usual stuff... -
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Just For The Birds by Jinx Schwartz
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHetta Coffey is a sassy woman with a snazzy yacht and she's not afraid to use it! While docked at Marina de la Paz, in Mexico's hauntingly beautiful Sea of Cortez, Hetta gets a surprise visitor that sets off a chain of events like only Hetta can manage to get herself embroiled in. With her best friend, Jan, and her dog, Po Thang, they are hot on the trail of some dastardly smugglers... -
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Just A Happy Camper by Jinx Schwartz
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she's not afraid to use it. She's cruising Mexico's hauntingly beautiful Sea of Cortez when she gets a job offer she can't refuse. Not only is the project located in her old stomping grounds in Texas Hill Country, but comes with an RV for living quarters. She has no problem driving a forty-five foot yacht, but RVing is new to her... -
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Subverted by Lori Matthews
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of the Callahan Security Series.Meet Finn Walsh of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.After an abandoned ship is found in international waters, Team RECON is summoned by Homeland Security to find answers. Finn Walsh has massive reservations about boarding the empty US Navy ship... -
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Swift and Silent: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThings in the Middle Florida Keys aren’t as idyllic as they seem. If one looks closely, there’s a layer of dirt just below the surface. The butt-ugly kind of dirt that’s hard to get off... -
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Dirty Old Town: gritty gripping northern noir by L.M. Krier
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDark streets. Dirty secrets. Closed front doors. But what is going on behind them?DCI Ted Darling is shocked to discover, in his new role as Head of Serious Crime, that topping the figures on his extended patch is domestic violence. When it ends in death, it’s the one crime where the victim can’t testify and witnesses don’t want to get involved... -
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Fallen Pride by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this third installment of the Jesse McDermitt series, Jesse faces an antagonist unlike any other. A friend’s son, who was dishonorably discharged from the Corps, is suffering from post-traumatic stress. With Jesse’s help he learns to cope with his demons and gets his discharge overturned, so that he can once again serve the country he loves... -
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Fallen Hunter by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJesse McDermitt has been grieving the loss of a loved one to terrorists. He's been holed up on his secluded island home for months, numbing his mind and body with endless, mundane tasks. But he has a plan for vengeance. A friend approaches Jesse seeking help for her dad who's been pressured into running drugs for a dangerous Cuban smuggler... -
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Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDaddy's little girl is all grown up.Things are about to change around here.If there is one thing I won't allow, it's having my dad's MC ran into the ground.Everyone expects my brothers to take charge, but there is one thing no one knows.I'm the one that runs this club.A woman.And according to men, a woman's place is in bed not at the head of the table... -
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Ruthless Charity by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter licking her physical and emotional wounds for several months, Charity Styles finally has a shot at redemption when her handler offers her a mission. It's dangerous, sure, but Charity also knows that it's meant as a test of her self-control. In the jungles of Venezuela, a land baron controls the native population with an iron fist .. -
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Incinerated by Lori Matthews
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeet Axel Cantor of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.When a cargo ship gets stuck in the Suez Canal and an American journalist on board ends up dead, Axel is sent in to investigate. He didn’t count on running into Sloan Bishop another reporter and the love of his life. Or maybe the hate of his life. Ever since he ended up in one of her articles... -
![Just Pardon My French by Jinx Schwartz]()
Just Pardon My French by Jinx Schwartz
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she’s not afraid to use it! She’s living aboard her forty-five foot boat in Mexico’s spectacular Sea of Cortez, taking work where she can get it and, characteristically, she isn’t all that concerned about any pesky legalities involved... -
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Dead Center by Dawn Lee McKenna, Axel Blackwell
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe quaint coastal town of Port St. Joe, FL isn’t the kind of place where people go around getting stabbed to death. So, when Jake Bellamy – an insurance agent and beloved father – is found murdered in the dewy grass of a local park, it comes as a bit of a shock. Now it’s up to Evan Caldwell, the new Sheriff and recent transplant, to solve the case... -
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Landfall by Dawn Lee McKenna
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs a hurricane gathers its power just off Apalachicola’s shore, another storm comes to a head in Lt. Maggie Redmond's home.Held prisoner by a man bent on avenging the death of a son, Maggie must find a way to save herself and her two children.No one knows where they are. No one is coming to help... -
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Fish On!: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJesse McDermitt is finally ready to retire. But life has other plans. While diving on a remote reef deep in the backcountry of the Florida Keys with his wife, son and two friends, he discovers of all things, a car.Not just any car, but a 1928 Duesenberg Model J, the most powerful and stylish automobile of its time... -
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The Depth of Darkness by L.T. Ryan, Sean Patrick Hopkins
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDetective Mitch Tanner's life hangs in the balance. He clings to the daughter in his care. He agonizes over the disappearance of his son and estranged wife. Twelve months has yet to turn up a solid lead.While investigating the apparent accidental death of Dusty Anne Miller, Mitch and his partner Sam Foster find themselves in the middle of a fiendish plan that strikes too close to home... -
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Rising Tide by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a small homemade boat drifts under the Seven Mile Bridge, Jesse McDermitt doesn’t hesitate to jump in and pull the boat ashore on Pigeon Key with an injured boy aboard. The boy provides more questions than answers. He’s believed to be a Cuban refugee, yet when he regains consciousness, he speaks perfect English, but can’t even remember his name... -
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Rising Moon: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn Grassy Key, things aren’t as idyllic as they seem. The quiet, sleepy community has been awakened. A young woman with strong ties to the community is missing.A local craftsman, the last person to see the girl, is questioned and released. The girl’s friends are interviewed. Nobody knows what happened to Cobie, except that she left for work one day and didn’t arrive... -
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Rising Spirit: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Jesse McDermitt has rebuilt his island in the Content Keys far better than it was before the storm. The task was enormous, but so was his need to make things better. Unbeknownst to Jesse, an environmentally conscious woman from his past has stumbled onto a drug manufacturing cartel in Virginia while working on a pollution mitigation problem... -
![Dead Reckoning by Dawn Lee McKenna, Axel Blackwell]()
Dead Reckoning by Dawn Lee McKenna, Axel Blackwell
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe real Florida lies far from the interstates, where there are no dancing mice, bikini-covered beaches, or shopping malls. If you listen closely, beneath the cries of hungry gulls and the rustle of wind through the palm fronds, you might hear it whisper its secrets. Lieutenant Evan Caldwell is a man adrift, cut loose from a life he thought he knew... -
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Fallen Tide by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCoral 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... -
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Typhoon Fury by Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters... -
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Fast Ice by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet in the latest novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of Adventure.After a former NUMA colleague disappears while researching the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world to investigate... -
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Journey of the Pharaohs by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsANCIENT SECRETS. MODERN WEAPONS . . . When Kurt Austin rescues the crew of a Scottish trawler, he finds himself trying to save them not once but twice. First, from the violent storm that dashes their vessel into jagged rocks and, second, from the deadly gunmen desperate to get their hands on its lost cargo of stolen Egyptian artefacts... -
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Fallen Palm by Wayne Stinnett, Nick Sullivan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJesse McDermitt lives alone on an isolated island in the Florida Keys where he runs a charter fishing business. Retired from the Marine Corps for six years, he wanted nothing more than to relax, fish, dive and enjoy the laid back lifestyle of the islands. Russ, his former Platoon Sergeant and old friend, dies unexpectedly in a mysterious scuba diving accident and Jesse becomes suspicious... -
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Hit and Run by Lori Matthews
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGage Callahan knew his latest assignment with Callahan Security was going to be a disaster. He traipsed around Europe to locate the computer programmer he was hired to protect only to discover she's actually a hacker hiding in Alaska. Tensions mount when she narrowly escapes becoming roadkill as a vicious organization comes after her... -
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Steady As She Goes by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJesse McDermitt is starting a new chapter in his life. As captain of the research vessel Ambrosia, his stated mission is to study the oceans and seafloor, searching for rich oil deposits. His unstated mission is to locate and eradicate the enemies of society on behalf of Armstrong Research, a secretive organization funded by some of the wealthiest people on the planet... -
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Enduring Charity by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen her position with the government is eliminated, Charity Styles is faced with an uncertain future. The only part of her previous life that she truly enjoyed was sailing her classic sloop. The cruising lifestyle is wonderful and helps keep her mind centered, as she sails from one anchorage to another, looking for her true calling... -
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All Ahead Full: A Jesse McDermitt Novel by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJesse McDermitt discovers an environmental nightmare of deception and greed taking place in Central America. A cartel is branching into smuggling things other than drugs. And they’re doing it quite effectively.The Honduran rain forests and its inhabitants are at peril. The cartel needs hidden places to grow coca, used in the manufacture of cocaine... -
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Rising Warrior by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter returning home to the Florida Keys, Jesse moves on to Fort Myers, his hometown on the Southwest Florida coast. There is much work to be done and Jesse is no stranger to hard work. On a kayaking adventure with friends, Jesse's daughter finds and rescues a baby manatee suffering from respiratory problems... -
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What Washes Up by Dawn Lee McKenna
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSouthern mystery and suspense, liberally seasoned with coastal atmosphere and dark humor. Karma’s alive and well in Apalachicola, Florida, and there are several people who are about to meet it face to face. When dozens of bodies wash up on the beach on St. George Island, the residents of Apalach are outraged, and none more so than investigator Maggie Redmond and Sheriff Wyatt Hamilton... -
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Fallen Mangrove by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA 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 on a coconut... -
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Rising Fury by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the backcountry of the Florida Keys, you can see and hear trouble coming for miles in any direction. If you’re paying attention. Jesse McDermitt lives in the backcountry and very little happens near him that he’s not aware of. During a quiet moment, he watches a slow-moving shrimp trawler as it serenely cruises by, far out on the Gulf, at the edge of the three-mile limit... -
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Man on Fire by A.J. Quinnell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsKnown only as Creasy, he was hired to protect, not to kill. A battle-scarred, burnt-out mercenary, working as a bodyguard for the young daughter of an Italian industrialist, he thought he had lost the power of feeling. Until the girl's beguiling touch awakens in him the ability to love.Then something happens, something so devastating that Creasy is consumed by a single-minded rage for revenge... -
![Nighthawk by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown]()
Nighthawk by Clive Cussler, Graham Brown
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world’s most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind’s last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling grand master of adventure... -
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COASTAL COUSINS: Coastal Adventure Series Number 2 by Don Rich
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter getting a glimpse inside walls of corporate America, Marlin Denton is a man who has instead chosen a simple, yet challenging life; earning a living as a guide, captain, and outdoor writer. It was a choice that even earned him the respect and admiration of one of the most wealthy Virginians, and it's part of the huge secret he's hiding from his friends... -
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Bone's Destiny by Naomi Porter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say don’t drink too much tequila... Funny, I can’t remember why.Oh, right… Or we’ll wake up chained to a wall.The scary-ass biker staring at me says I’m paying for my father’s debt.I’m devastated and scared.Utterly clueless about my dad’s dirty dealings.The tattooed, brooding biker isn’t helpful or friendly.He just watches me with those laser-gray eyes... -
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Elusive Charity by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSince the recent death of a wealthy but perverted businessman, Charity Styles has been hiding in plain sight, as if challenging anyone to come after her.She’s on her own once more, living day to day on her beloved Wind Dancer, anchored near a quaint little Gulf Coast town in the Florida Panhandle... -
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Sea of Greed by Clive Cussler
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling master of adventure, a brand new mission for Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew--based on a remarkable historical incident. January 1968Two submarines--one French, one Israeli--vanish in the Mediterranean within days of each other. Extensive search-and-rescue operations turn up no sign of either vessel... -
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Rising Storm by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMiles from the laid-back lifestyle of No Name Key, and just shy of the raucous nightlife of Miami and South Beach, lies Coconut Grove, a tropical oasis with a distinct Bohemian flair. Lately, a seedy underside has emerged along the Grove’s waterfront, preying on adventurous young women. Somewhere amid all the glitz and glamour, hides a thief who stole a fortune in Aztec emeralds... -
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Rising Force by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsParadise has a price. For Jesse McDermitt, that price is his moral compass and a bullet. The retired Marine and charter skipper takes on a passenger in Nassau, a young woman who is a breath of fresh air. She introduces him to the laid-back cruising crowd on an idyllic small cay in the Berry Islands. Jesse takes to the relaxing lifestyle like a fish to water... -
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Rising Charity by Wayne Stinnett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt'd been a long time; a lot of things had changed. Since sailing away from Cane Garden Bay, Jesse McDermitt had changed. Waking one morning, the smell of rum still on his breath, Jesse realizes he doesn't much like the change anymore. The mask which he'd freely put on didn't fit right. It was the mask of a drifting, womanizing, boat bum, and it concealed his inner turmoil...
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