A girl with no name...

Penny doesn't remember much about her childhood and what she does remember isn't all that great. She and her mother moved too many times to a series of cheap motels. There were too many men visiting her mother and none of them were her father. As for him, all Penny knew was that her father was rich and dead.She was found abandoned on a deserted beach on the Salish Sea when she was four years old, and didn't even know her own name. Shunted from one foster home to another, she struggled to overcome the odds.When a Police Detective from the Victoria, B.C. Police Department calls about remains that were identified as belonging to her mother, Penny starts a quest to find out what happened to her and who her father really is.She enlists crime reporter Tess McClintock and Michael Carter to help her find her family, but when they start uncovering Penny's past, not everyone is happy to learn their connection to the girl with no name.The Salish Sea is a new standalone book in the Salish Sea Crime Thriller series.

DI Charlie West and irrepressible ex-detective James Munro return in a new murder mystery

When a sheep farmer boards a stricken fishing vessel stranded on the shore, he is in for

the shock of his life

. Within lies the body of a man who is, for all intents and purposes, inside out.The police find a filleting knife in the hold, covered in the victim’s blood. DI Charlie West arrives on the scene, and given the obvious disembowelment, immediately determines that

a murder has taken place

.The boat is otherwise abandoned, but detectives soon trace the owner,

a man well known to the police

. Cocksure, he has a clear alibi but after some less-than-delicate probing, his story springs a leak.However, the investigation is thrown into confusion when

a local girl goes missing

. What is the connection to the gutless sailor? Or the arrogant boat owner?Set in a stunning location, spiced with humour and with a fair sprinkling of clues for the

avid mystery solver

, you’ll be glued to the pages of this gripping whodunnit.HUBRIS is the eleventh book to feature retired detective James Munro and his protégé DI Charlotte West. It represents something of a departure from previous books in that West plays a central role. But Munro, with his sage advice and hearty appetite for the finer things in life, is never far away. The full list of books in this series is as follows:1. SHE2. AVARICE3. ENMITY4. DUPLICITY5. TERMINUS6. TALION7. PERDITION8. RANCOUR9. PENITENT10. TURPITUDE11. HUBRIS12. PENURY13. RUSEAll of these books are FREE with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback from Amazon.

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Paradise swirls with deadly currents.

She has to avenge a champion.

Surfing star Makoa Simmons washes up after tragically drowning on Maui, and Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and tangled motives reach deep into the elite world of professional surfing on the North Shore of Oahu.

He’ll kill to come out on top.

The darkest of motives drive a murderer with multiple axes to grind, and Lei must follow her instincts into new territory even as her husband, Michael Stevens, struggles with heartbreak of another kind.

“Another fantastic mystery featuring Lei Texeira and the wonderful, deftly drawn characters populating the Lei Crime Series.” Emily Kimelman, author of the Sydney Rye Mystery Series

Grab this fast paced mystery with a twist of romance, and take a trip to Hawaii with the series that’s sold more than a million copies!