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Stone Barrington novels volume 14
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English
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Sent to a Caribbean island where they are to locate murderous rogue agent Teddy Fay, the CIA team of Stone Barrington, Holly Barker, and Dino Baldachetti finds their mission thwarted by corrupt politicians and secretive American expatriates.
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Antoinette Cosway is a Creole heiress - product of an inbred, decadent, expatriate community - a sensitive girl at once beguiled and repelled by the lush Jamaican landscape. Soon after her marriage to Rochester rumours of madness in the Cosway family poison Rochester's mind against her.
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Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Dorothy bought her freedom, and that of her sister and her mother, from her Irish planter father. Rising above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism, she built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter. Leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her, life, Doll answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against...
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Trouble in paradise! volume 1
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English
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"After Plum Lockhart's job as a travel magazine editor is eliminated in corporate cuts, she decided she's sick of cold winters in NYC and fruitless swiping on dating apps--what she needs is a dramatic change of scenery. On a whim, she accepts a job as a villa broker and moves to a beautiful Caribbean island. But paradise isn't as perfect as it seems: the slow pace of island life, the language barrier, and a cutthroat office rival make Plum question...
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Trouble in paradise! volume 2
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English
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"Plum Lockhart went out on a limb when she ditched her corporate job in NYC and moved to the Caribbean island of Paraiso. Now the head of her own villa broker agency, Plum finds herself going head-to-head with her former boss and his evil (and annoyingly handsome) deputy Damian. But when an old colleague asks her to connect with his snarky assistant Arielle, the sweet life turns sour--Arielle is soon found dead at the house of an eccentric tycoon,...
6) Until August
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2024.
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English
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"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
7) Black widow
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Doc Ford novels volume 15
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English
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Doc Ford's goddaughter pleads with him to help her out of a jam. An extortionist with a lurid videotape of her bachelorette party is threatening to ruin her imminent marriage. Despite getting paid, the blackmailer releases the tape anyway--and that's only the beginning of Doc's troubles.
8) Gone bamboo
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Villard
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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A hilarious thriller that pits a CIA-trained assassin against a cross-dressing Mafioso. Henry and his wife Frances have gone bamboo - living an idyllic, tequila-drenched life as two of the Caribbean's most charming expatriates (and professional assassins). But when Charlie "Wagons" Iannello, a powerful capo with a heart of gold, is relocated to the island under the Federal Witness Protection Program, Henry and Frances's plan suddenly, dangerously...
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Trouble in paradise! volume 3
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English
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"On the tropical island of Paraiso, Plum Lockhart has a new zest for life. Not only is her new villa rental company growing like a weed, but things are also finally heating up between her and the handsome Director of Security at Las Frutas Resort. Plum's thrilled when she gets an invite to dinner on the yacht of a wealthy music executive, grateful for a luxurious night on the water, surrounded by A-listers. But days later, one of the servers from...
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Malory-Anderson family saga volume 8
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English
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After her mother's death, Gabrielle Brooks sets sail to the Caribbean in search of her father, discovers he has become a pirate, and spends three happy years sailing with him. His decision that she should return to London to find a proper husband leads to intrigue, scandal, and Gabrielle's passionate quest for revenge, as she finds herself falling in love with a carefree sea captain with no interest in matrimony.
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 10
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Little, Brown
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English
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As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Amistad
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and brutality.
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Akashic Books
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English
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"After a personal tragedy upends his world, American-born artist Chris travels to his mother's homeland in the Caribbean hoping to find some peace and tranquility. He plans to spend his time painting in solitude and coming to terms with his recent loss and his fractured relationship with his father. Instead, he discovers a new extended and complicated 'family,' with their own startling stories, including a love triangle. The people he meets help him...
15) The guineaman
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Severn House
Pub. Date
©2000
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English
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When William Kite runs away to sea to escape a charge of muder, he finds himself aboard the Enterprize, a Liverpool Guineaman, or slave ship, destined for the Guinea coast of West Africa. Having loaded the slaves the ship then prepares to cross the Atlantic, bound for the sugar plantations of the West Indies.
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Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Traveling to a dangerous Caribbean island to continue her late brother's charitable work, Francesca Pellegrini finds herself under the protection of security tycoon Felipe Lorenzi. Independent Francesca is infuriated by his commands, but Felipe's every look invites her to give up her innocence to him... With his body and heart as hard as stone after his military career, Felipe has no time for Francesca's seductive games. Until this captivating young...
18) Angel death
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Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Pub. Date
1981, ©1980
Language
English
Description
Murder at a resort in the Caribbean.
"St. Matthews, one of the British Seaward Islands, basks in the blue waters of the Caribbean, a still unspoiled yachtsman's paradise. Returning there for a holiday, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, looked forward to a relaxing time in the sun. But beneath the calm surface is the menace of a vicious drug ring and a conspiracy to gain a stranglehold on island life. Drugs are...
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Harlequin presents volume 3490
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"For Lily Fielding, the small, safe Caribbean island is all she's ever known. But the appearance of an intriguing newcomer is about to change everything for this unworldly vicar's daughter, for the sensual awakening he promises is both intoxicating and illicit... Raphael Oliveira should resist the temptation that beautiful Lily presents; after all, he knows that wherever he goes, danger follows... Although, once she is under his spell, Rafe's intense...
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Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Wynston Cleave, a black taxi driver on a small Caribbean island, spent years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the death of a wealthy white tourist. Finally released, he tries to piece his life together working as a bartender and reading literary classics to the unruly cockroaches infesting his taxi. On the anniversary of his arrest, Wynston picks up two white Americans just kicked off a cruise ship. The next day, the ship reports a deadly...
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