Ed Teja

Old Sweet ain't gonna build no more boats...Someone killed himOn the Caribbean island of Kayakoo a local boatbuilder named Sweet is found dead on the beach. Detective Johnny Cliff needs to find out what happened to him. With a little help from a friend from a Scotland Yard detective who is there on vacation, he follows the typically twisting and curious trails an island investigation can take. Down on the Caribbean islands, 'tings ain't always how they seem, mon.Grab a copy today.

Stories are timeless and some travel too wellA writer traveling in Asia settles down in a remote guesthouse in the off season. He needs a cheap and quiet place to write a crime story based on one he heard while working in a boatyard in the Caribbean. He's got an idea of how to weave together the tale of a murderer who escaped prison and how he rebuilt a boat in Trinidad and started stealing. When a bar girl takes an interest in his work, even making suggestions about how he can make the story more interesting to people, things around him get intriguing. When he spins out the story, just because the bar girl wants to hear it, fiction and reality blur together in a curious combination. And the outcome changes everything.

Trouble brewing on an island paradiseNot only is there a stranger sitting out on the boat of that nice French couple looking all suspicious, but Martha's skillet has gone missing. She's starting the morning fixing up and it ain't in its place. It gotta have been thieved Johnny gotta find out who doing them things.

Poetry is everywhere.... even in the margins.People who live in the margins and places that don't attract the tourists can be the most compelling, the most interesting. Outsiders get a new perspective on their own world, and some are outsiders within their own culture.This collection provides observations of a lifelong traveler, poems written on the move, words that capture impressions of places, feelings, and moments.

Never before published images of Cambodia seen through lens and mind. As for the suitcase, it has no pretension, no markings, no grandeur as is right for such a vessel. Yet it has carried within a world of worlds forgotten and promised. Its past cannot be comprehended, its future contemplated. It is what it is: what it has always been; what we hold to hold us as a chattel or a part of a dreamers fantasy. As for the young American he knows not. His vessel is empty. The Canadian has the burden ... in his mind ... in the Cambodian mindfield. This I can tell you and no more.

Getting away from it all can be hardWhen an LA private investigator heads to Colorado to see an old buddy and get in a little fishing, he walks squarely into a murder investigation. It's like he never left home, and he was looking forward to a relaxing time in the country. The victim, a reporter for the local paper, worked for his friend Jimmy who retired there. Now Jimmy is calling in favors. The local sheriff isn't exactly a go-getter and Jimmy wants to ensure the killer is found. Old friendships can make for high-maintenance situations.