Rebel Island

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

A triple-crown winner of mystery’s most coveted awards, Rick Riordan brings his Texas-style take on the crime thriller to an island paradise where ex-PI Tres Navarre finds himself stranded with a killer as unstoppable as a force of nature.

Tres Navarre and his new wife Maia came to celebrate their honeymoon. But no sooner had they arrived on Rebel Island than a reminder of Navarre’s past showed up dead in room 12. Suddenly Tres finds himself flashing back to the grim childhood summer that changed his life. When a second corpse turns up, it’s clear that the past isn’t dead and buried—yet. What dark secrets were kept that long-ago summer and who is back to avenge them? These are questions Tres must answer as a monster hurricane hits, trapping them on a flooding island, and as the hotel’s remaining guests are being brutally murdered. Tres knows better than anyone the dangerous line between vengeance and justice—and this time he may have to cross it.

©2007 Rick Riordan (P)2008 Recorded Books

Critic reviews

"Riordan's strong narrative voice...is alive and well in this thriller." (Booklist)

A Sealed Room Mystery for Tres

What did you like best about this story?

This is a classic "sealed room" mystery. Everyone is trapped on the island and one by one they start ending up dead. Whodunit??? It's so very Agatha Christie. I loved it.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Once again, Tres' brother Garrett becomes a fully realized character, which greatly adds to the emotional depth of the book. Tres' flashbacks to his childhood visits to the island do that as well. Not that it's deep-deep, because you know, Agatha Christie.

Any additional comments?

The storm descriptions are terrific, especially at the lighthouse. And I for one did not figure out the villain until the very end.

Always a surprise

Just as you think you've got the plot twists figured out you don't. Rick Riordan's character of Tres Navarre has a great self deprecating sense of humor. all of the characters are real, and in the end compelling. and the narration is superb. I am sorry this series has come to an end.

Slow start

Good story but slow going and predictable. Really enjoyed his other books and looking forward to more books from Riordan.

Rick Is Great

The reader sounds like I would like Tres to sound. Good selection of a reader. The book is excellent. I am a Rick Riodan fan and loved to go to sleep with the lights off listening to this book being read. Please do some more Rick Riodan for all of his fans.

final book in the series it's worth it

the author is long since abandoned any desire to come back to these characters so I doubt that we'll ever see anything again. a little disappointed that there won't be things anymore but I think the author was getting bored with the series. it is what it is I mean if I was him I would be focusing in on his children's fantasy books as well plus he's left his Texas roots and it's California experience long behind him he's in Boston now so the reality of the poverty and things that he was surrounded when he was teaching is gone. good for him right....