Kirjahaku

First there was Irma. Then came Maria. In the disastrous aftermath of these two colossal hurricanes, Tucker Mackenzie finds himself stranded on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra with an escaped inmate and a sailboat with a secret stash. When Tucker's ex-con companion is literally discovered dead in the water, Tucker is suddenly on the run from a newfound enemy. With the help of his girlfriend, Fiona, and her extreme survival skills, Tucker disappears into the backdrop of a Caribbean community that is rebuilding itself from a devastating Category 5 storm. Moving from beach to bungalow to bunker to boat, he makes plans to escape the tropical trap into which he has unwittingly stumbled.Tyler Mackenzie, who hasn't heard from Tucker in almost two years, follows his missing son's trail to Tortola and on to Culebra. Enlisting the help of colorful local personalities along the way, Tyler soon learns that Tucker's mother, Lucy Brookstone, has simultaneously launched her own search for the boy, However, Lucy's endeavors have been seriously undermined by an unchecked spate of bingeing behavior, which includes a thirst for gin and tonics, an endless appetite, and an attraction to seriously bad men. While Lucy's shortcomings continue to derail her efforts, Tyler's investigation into Tucker's disappearance leads him unwittingly into one of the deadliest encounters of his life.Contrasting Tucker's escapades with his parents' misadventures in paradise, Second Wind's suspenseful narrative moves back and forth through time, weaving these three compelling storylines together to a thrilling climax with an unexpected twist.

A Cajun fortuneteller. A sassy sex show performer. A pair of Voodoo Buddhists in the Bywater... What more does an aspiring street musician need to make his life complicated? When Myles rescues Kit, a mysterious woman wandering in the desert landscape of the Baja Peninsula, he has no idea how his good deed will irrevocably change the future. Already a fugitive from justice, he soon finds himself on the run with murder charges hanging over his head. Fleeing north with Kit, under an assumed identity, he leaves an idyllic beach existence on the Sea of Cortez for a new life as a musician in New Orleans. But even in a city that continually reels with celebration and colorful characters, the past catches up with Myles in a series of cataclysmic events from which there is no turning back. Meanwhile, in a Vermont village, Tyler Mackenzie's domain has been forever changed by the presence of Chloe, the whirlwind young mother of his twin granddaughters. In an effort to fill her own loneliness, Chloe has taken over his household and his job, leaving Tyler in a semi-permanent state of depression, a couch potato unable to locate his irresponsible son, Tucker, or his wayward best friend, Myles. But the winter doldrums end abruptly when Diva, Myles's cat, arrives inexplicably via air courier, and when Chloe befriends Angel, a charismatic tourist she meets at the local inn. Soon Chloe is derailed by dark desires for drugs and sex and is plunged into a hypnotic nightmare of deception, and, Tyler finds himself once again searching for the lost adult children of West Jordan, Vermont. With an improbable cast of spicy personalities, Catnip Jazz works its way from Mexico to New Orleans and to the seediest sections of Montreal, weaving compelling narratives together in a dark and twisty adventure that keeps the pages turning and burning.

Investigative journalist, Tyler Mackenzie, heads to rural northern Vermont in 1986 to write an article about a renowned stained glass artist who died in 1955; his world is rocked when he meets her daughter who has been working anonymously as a bartender in the local inn. Together they uncover the sordid details surrounding her parents' dysfunctional marriage, her philandering father's gambling problems and her talented mother's mysterious death. The plot weaves suspense, passion, and revealing flashbacks into an evocative tale, richly populated with colorful New England village characters.