John Walker
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker's Ivory's Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, humans were drawn to the "jewels of the elephant"-its great tusks. Ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world-from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"February 1939. Mamie Mason isn't enthusiastic when Bert, her husband of thirty years, persuades her to join him on an African cruise. Bert might be pining for adventure, but Mamie's perfectly content with her comfortable life in Hills Corners, Ohio. But once the couple board the glamorous SS Columbus, Mamie has to admit - much as it pains her - that Bert was right. Swimming in the pool, dancing under the stars, their own bedroom steward to serve...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Introducing hardboiled PI Henry Gore, in this pitch--black noir novel set in 1950s revolutionary Cuba. World--weary American Henry Gore was born in the cold Midwest. But a lucky connection -- and a hundred peso bribe -- scores him a license to operate as a private investigator in Havana, a place where he can finally get warm. Soon, he's trailing after cheating husbands to finance his permanent vacation in the land of sun, cigars and compliant señoritas....
Author
Series
Teddy Creque mystery volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sea, storm, superstition . . . Constable Teddy Creque, the sole police officer on the tiny, sun-soaked island of Anegada, is used to weathering storms. So when Hurricane Leatha hits the Caribbean with brutal force, his main concern is keeping the island's two hundred residents safe. Teddy expects the power to go out. He expects the phone lines to go down. But he doesn't expect the radioed message from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force headquarters,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After barely surviving the first criminal investigation in living memory on the sun-drenched British Virgin island of Anegada, Constable Teddy Creque has spent the past six months trying to weather the aftermath, and move on with his life. Now, with a promotion and a medal of honor, he's newly committed to the job. So, when a young woman dies in a shark attack off the coast of a neighboring island, Virgin Gorda, Teddy is happy to help when Deputy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Constable Teddy Creque is assigned to the security detail at a grand reception on the little island of Tortola for Princess Portia and her husband Lord Sutherland, he's prepared for an evening of dreary small talk about bond prices and tax havens. But at least the event is going smoothly, he tells himself...that is, until it's cut dramatically short by a shot ringing out from the direction of the garden. Anxious that one of the royals is in danger,...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"As a Special Constable, Teddy Creque is the only police presence on the remote, sun-drenched island of Anegada, nestled in the heart of the British Virgin Islands. In all his years on the job, Teddy has never considered the possibility that he might have to address an actual crime on his peaceful island. That is, until he receives a hysterical call about a dead man on the beach. Indeed, Teddy is shocked to discover Paul Kelliher, a biologist who...