Art & Music

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  Bahama Burnout by Don Bruns
  

  For rock and roll writer Mick Sever, another story, another deadly island paradise is all in a day’s work. This time, Mick heads to Nassau, Bahamas, home of the legendary Highland Studio. Known for pumping out hits that burn up the charts, Highland is where the magic happens or rather, ...

  
  

  Bruns’s laid-back fifth mystery to feature Mick Sever (after 2008’s St. Bart’s Breakdown) takes the ...Publishers Weekly
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  The Charlestown Connection by Tom MacDonald
  

  Dermot Sparhawk, a former All American Boston College football hero, is stacking cans in a parish food pantry in Boston’s Charlestown, when his godfather, Jeepster Hennessey, shows up with a knife in his back and dies at Dermot’s feet. Once slated for a professional football career, now a recovering alcoholic, ...

  
  

  The Charlestown Connection is a crackling good read, finely paced and full of surprising twists.  Fast, ...Michael Palmer, New York Times best-selling author of A Heartbeat Away
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  Firebird by Helaine Mario
  

  Firebird has it all—mystery, suspense, drama, politics, romance, and sensitivity. And added to that are vivid locations—Maine, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Russia—and an author that makes you feel like you are there. Now mix in rich characters with heroic bravery and devotion to family, friends, and country, and ...

  
  

  …fans of romantic thrillers will be enthralled. Publishers Weekly
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  Frame Up by John F Dobbyn
  

  After graduating from Harvard Law with his closest friend, John McKedrick, Michael Knight practices with the U.S. Attorney’s office and with a prestigious trial firm in Boston, then Michael and his mentor, the legendary trial attorney Lex Devlin, form Devlin & Knight to do criminal defense work, while John becomes ...

  
  

  FRAME UP is a twisted tale of mafia gangsters and international intrigue providing an in-depth ...The Big Thrill
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  The Lost Concerto by Helaine Mario
  

  A woman and her young son flee to a convent on a remote island off the Breton coast of France. Generations of seafarers have named the place de la Brume, or Fog Island. In a chapel high on a cliff, a tragic death occurs and a terrified child vanishes into ...

  
  

  Skeletons bang on closet doors, longing to be set free—and free they are in this ...Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author of The Patriot Threat
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  South Beach Shakedown by Don Bruns
  

  Someone is about to make a killing in the music industry. Why would songwriting legend Gideon Pike mysteriously disappear just when he is about to turn a 30-year career into a multi-million dollar profit? Music columnist Mick Sever is back in Don Brun’s third suspense masterpiece.This time he’s looking for ...

  
  

  South Beach Shakedown is a glitzy high speed run from the back alleys to the ...New York Times Best-selling author Michael Connelly
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  St. Barts Breakdown by Don Bruns
  

  Rock and roll journalist Mick Sever is back with a new assignment: interview music legend Danny Murtz. Murtz’s walls are lined with platinum records, but his closet is full of skeletons. Known for producing an unbelievable string of hits, Murtz is also tied to a string of disappearances. Seems a ...

  
  

  a Caribbean thriller with a ring tone amazingly like the near-Caribbean thrillers of Tim Dorsey ...Booklist
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