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When a boat explodes in the Scorpion Cay Marina with one of Sam Decker's oldest friends on board, Police Chief Monica Sinclair knows that there is no way she will be able to keep the former DEA agent turned Private Investigator out of the case. When evidence turns up incriminating the man in a drug case, Sam Decker smells a rat. Then when the widow arrives on the island and more dead bodies start turning up, Decker knows that someone is turning up the heat!

This new series is for “the fans of the old style of action tales and stories of High-Adventure. Here, you’ll meet Mike Harrigan, known to his friends and foes as “Hardluck Hannigan.” Traipsing through the Belgium Congo, he takes on Nazis, river pirates, even the legendary Prester John. With Bridget Ellen O’Malley and Father Niles McKenzie at his side, .45 blazing, Hardluck Hannigan pits himself against the nefarious Doctor Ragnarok in the search for the fabulous Emerald of Eternity.

Willie Walker was a famous saxophonist in the Jazz world. He had played all around the world. But now he was retiring to Key West to open up a Jazz Club at the End of the Road. But people around him start dying, and pretty soon Willie gets the idea that somebody doesn’t want his club to open. His granddaughter Ruby is getting the same idea and hires Marlow to find out who is out to kill her grandfather and why. Willie has secrets he plans on taking to the grave. Secrets he promised never to reveal. But in order to keep Willie alive, Marlow has to uncover those secrets or they both might end up singing the Midnight Blues.

When a dead US Intelligence agent washes up on Nassau, it gets the authorities' attention. Especially since he was reported killed 10 years before in Europe. The Caribe team is tasked to look into this mystery, which is personal for Nick Storm since he was the man's backstop in Croatia. But on arriving in Nassau, they discover that the twice dead agent is only the tip of the iceberg as they race to stop S.H.A.D.E. from selling a stolen nuclear device to ISIS!

When Caroline England first walked into her office with a wild tale of being followed and feeling that someone had targeted her for murder, Rebekah McCabe really didn't believe her. But the money was real enough and there was enough of it to make her a believer, at least long enough to investigate. Caroline was a hostess at Club Prana, a five level nightclub featuring everything from hip-hop to reggae. The night before she had nearly been shoved over a balcony rail. Could it have been an accident?

Russian warships are arriving in Cuba and the president wants to know why. Nick Storm and the Caribe team are instructed to find out! While Maya and Julio head for Cuba, Nick Storm and Liza Breton are dispatched to Venezuela where a coup is in the making. Are the Russian ships being sent to offer aid to the embattled leader of the South American government? Or are they there for a far more sinister purpose? One that could ignite into World War Three?

Detective Rick Marlow is at it again, solving crimes in Key West, getting his act together. He had cut down to five cigarettes a day and only occasionally anything stronger than beer to drink. He was running nearly half a mile now, a long way from where he had been before he got shot. So when he gets a new case, he's not prepared for the violence that's sure to follow.

As a cop, Joe Collins knew there were bad people out there - serial killers, monsters that needed to be caught... and eliminated. His vigilante brand of justice makes for exciting listening in this new mystery series that will etch itself into your imagination like a tattoo.

He awakened in a burnt out wagon train below the Rockies with no memory of who he was. There was nothing to tell him either. So he took the name that Texans called unbranded cattle and made his way into the mountains to try and carve out a new life for himself in the wild west. However the man calling himself Maverick has enemies on his back trail anxious to put a bullet in his back and the only thing keeping him alive is courage and a deadly hand with a gun.

When Hannibal Tucker Rides into Wolf Creek he is not looking for trouble - but it seeks him out anyway. Soon he finds himself caught up in a range war not of his choosing until he ties in by becoming half owner of the ranch caught in the middle. Now, with trouble on both sides, Tucker calls in his old pals from the Lazy T - and then things explode in Wolf Creek Pass!

While in the Everglades promoting both a fishing tournament and a concert to save the Everglades, country music icon Wally Norwood finds a dead body and a metric ton of pot and is immediately arrested for possession. Wally hires ex-DEA agent turned private investigator Sam Decker to clear his name and find out who framed him. As Decker begins to weed his way through the case, he begins to understand that there are a lot of suspects, including the very sheriff's department that made the initial arrest.

The Freetrader Orion has made a stop to deliver supplies at an Asteroid mining facility when the asteroid suddenly comes under attack by strange spider-like creatures intent on destroying the ore refinery. With his crew and ship at risks from the strange creatures, Captain Kiel Dorn leads a strike against them. Once the creatures are driven off, Captain Dorn wants to find out where they came from and why they attacked the refinery...

While on an expedition looking for a lost city high in the Andes, adventurer Paul Sabre is ambushed and left for dead. However Sabre is not an easy man to kill and he takes up the trail of the villainous Jorge Montoya, a Bolivian treasure hunter who holds Shelly Newmar, Sabre's love captive. Attacked by demon-winged beasts, the expedition is in shambles. Montoya heads higher up the mountain looking for the legendary Temple of the Sun said to be guarded by the Hawkmen of Hiratu, a race said to pre-date the Incas.

When Attorney Russell Cosgrove is murdered on his patio, most are willing to chalk it up to an unhappy client with a grudge, or a jealous girlfriend. Not Sam Decker, however. He and Cosgrove had been old friends, going back to Decker’s days as an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration. When State cops come in and try to take over the investigation, Decker wants to know why. He has no idea that finding the answers could get him killed!

Greg Marlow is hot on the trail of the guys that gunned down his cousin in a sneak attack. The local kingpin has been hiding, but former Key West Citizen reporter Thom Hark had uncovered a crime ring that was consolidated by a local kingpin. While Rick Marlow is recovering from a surprise attack, Greg Marlow is on the job and plans to bring the shooter to justice, one way or another.

A break in at the Hemingway museum leads to a lot of speculation on the coconut telegraph. Nothing appears to have been taken and the only damage is to an old desk that Ernest Hemingway had used. The Key West Police Department writes it off as routine vandalism. Except Katrina Morrow doesn’t think so. Katrina is a Hemingway scholar and suspects that the break in had a specific purpose, so she hires Marlow to look into it. As he begins his investigation, some sinister characters show up and try to scare him off. But Rick Marlow doesn’t scare easily, and as the stakes rise, he becomes ...

When a dead fisherman is found floating in the waters off of Smather’s Beach, the U.S. Coastguard writes it off as an accident. But when his wife is found dead under suspicious circumstances two days later, his sister hires Rick Marlow to look into it. But as Marlow begins his investigation, more bodies begin to drop, and Marlow must find out why before Key West is washed away in a Red Tide of blood!

Quinn Kerns had come from Miami to Key West to get away from her parents. She was underage and desperate. So when Desmond Carter offered her a job she said yes, not knowing what she was getting into. Quinn’s mother followed her to Key West searching for her daughter. After she’s threatened by a couple of thugs, Lara Kerns hires Marlow to find her daughter and get her out of whatever she has gotten herself into … Yes, Bill Craig delivers another mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. His spellbinding books remind you of potato chips: you can’t eat just one … or not ...

When Vern Brisbane is murdered after docking his shrimp boat, the Key West Police think it was a random killing. But Brisbane’s daughter Lilly disagrees. She hires Rick Marlow to look into the shrimper’s death and what he finds is a smuggling operation that is using shrimp boats to smuggle in both drugs and people. Not knowing who he can trust, Marlow must navigate the Dark Waters to get the man behind it all.

“Bill Craig’s Marlow Key West series is as entertaining as it is suspenseful with seasoned characters in and around Florida’s southernmost point...a tropic archipelago.” —Dick Wall, Editor. Rip tide begins with Marlow being hired to find a missing woman who was mistakenly scooped up in an Immigration and Custody Enforcement raid on Duval Street. However, Mona DuValier and several other women never made it to the Monroe County jail. They disappeared between where they were picked up and where they were supposed to be taken. Marlow steps into the shadowy world of human trafficking ...