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Hurt by betrayal and reeling with doubts about his own judgment, Detective Adam Kaminski seeks a safe harbor on a pleasure cruise to Bermuda. But he's not the only passenger using the cruise to hide from his past.The calm of his vacation is shattered when crew discover the brutally murdered body of a wealthy passenger. Adam and his partner are convinced by the ship's captain to help with the investigation, leaving Adam's sister Julia to focus on further developing her skills in photography. The victim was a powerful patriarch on a family vacation, but Adam soon learns he had more enemies than friends. While every move the detectives make unearths more motives and more suspects, Julia knows the truth is often revealed in candid shots and captured glances. Exposing the bonds that connect the victim and his family to his homeland of Russia reveals darker connections and shadier activities--activities that challenge Adam's sense of justice and place his sister squarely in the killer's frame. Now Adam must catch the killer before the boat docks, without compromising himself or becoming a pale reflection of the man he thought he was.Hurt by betrayal and reeling with doubts about his own judgment, Detective Adam Kaminski seeks a safe harbor on a pleasure cruise to Bermuda. But he's not the only passenger using the cruise to hide from his past.The calm of his vacation is shattered when crew discover the brutally murdered body of a wealthy passenger. Adam and his partner are convinced by the ship's captain to help with the investigation, leaving Adam's sister Julia to focus on further developing her skills in photography. The victim was a powerful patriarch on a family vacation, but Adam soon learns he had more enemies than friends. While every move the detectives make unearths more motives and more suspects, Julia knows the truth is often revealed in candid shots and captured glances. Exposing the bonds that connect the victim and his family to his homeland of Russia reveals darker connections and shadier activities--activities that challenge Adam's sense of justice and place his sister squarely in the killer's frame. Now Adam must catch the killer before the boat docks, without compromising himself or becoming a pale reflection of the man he thought he was.

Philadelphia Detective Adam Kaminski travels to France to find the truth about his great-grandfather's life - and unearths more than he bargained for. Just as Adam arrives in the village of St. Honor , a local lavender farmer is brutally killed. The war that Adam's great-grandfather fought may be the reason he is dead. The legacy of Nazi-era collaboration and resistance is alive and kicking among the locals. While some villagers want to drag St. Honor into the modern world, others want to hold on to the past, the old way of life and old memories. But old memories, like old wine, can turn bitter. When Adam's new friends, American ex-pats living in St. Honor , get caught up in the conflict, Adam has to step in to find the real killer. As he peels back the layers of lies around the murder, he also realizes the truth about his great-grandfather might be more complicated than he ever imagined. Now Adam has to choose between letting old ghosts lie or digging into the past to uncover the bitter truth about a killer, no matter how painful for St. Honor - and his own family pride.

When her friend's uncle is accused of murder, Anna McGregor dives into the boating life to prove his innocence. She soon learns that while lounging on a luxury yacht might be fun, matching wits with a killer can be deadly.Life has finally settled down for Anna. The Cape May B & B she inherited from her Great Aunt Louise is fully booked and Anna is looking forward to a successful summer. Her peace is shattered when a body washes up in Spicer Creek and the police focus their investigation on her friend's uncle. Determined to find the truth, Anna turns to skills she developed in her previous career in medical anthropology.Once again, Anna teams up with her best friend Sammy, her young cousin Eoin and the local librarian to use their knowledge of the town and its people to solve this crime. But the disappearance of two local teenagers reminds Anna this is the wrong time for free fishing trips or relaxing on a yacht enjoying a Bee's Knees cocktail. She needs to find the missing teenagers and identify the killer before anyone else gets hurt.

When a gorgeous man dressed as Bridgette Bardot buys her a Scofflaw and asks her out on a date, Anna McGregor begins to suspect her murder investigation has taken a wrong turn. Her previous work as a medical anthropologist exposed her to a variety of unexpected situations, but none quite like this.It all seemed so simple: fix up the Cape May Victorian mansion she'd inherited from Great Aunt Louise and re-open it as the exceptional B&B it used to be. Everything's going great, until her very first guest turns up dead at the breakfast table, crumbs from Anna's blueberry scones scattered on the lace tablecloth.As the town's gossip mill goes into overdrive, Anna leaps into the fray to save her reputation, her business and Great Aunt Louise's legacy.With help from a handsome handyman eager to solve all of Anna's problems and a young police officer new to murder investigations, Anna does her best to convince the town - and her future guests - that while her scones may be killer, someone else was responsible for this murder.