The Beatrice Butler Museum in Boston, Massachusetts houses a world-renowned art collection. Early one morning, thirteen of the museum's finest and most valuable paintings -- by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Degas, Manet and others -- were stolen by thieves masquerading as cops. Until now the high-profile crime has remained unsolved. A reluctant sleuth, Tommy Shakespear leaves his surfboard and his mountain bike behind at the request of an old friend, Jack Butler, and travels from Santa Cruz, California to Boston and to Barcelona in search of the elusive gang of thieves responsible for the art theft....

Set in the scenic natural beauty of Martha's Vineyard, BUZZD - The Bee Kill Conspiracy tells the story of corporate greed, mercenary killing and a new agricultural chemical that endangers the island ecosystem. Afghan war vet and special ops marine, Sam Hill uncovers the truth about the death of an EPA official, swarmed by killer bees. Sam finds a single loose thread and pulls on it until he unravels a national conspiracy that could threaten the entire planet.

Misfit Blues is a novella of love and crime, Goodbye, Columbus meets The Friends of Eddie Coyle... It's both an ill-fated love story (she's already engaged, he's not quite in her class) and a suspenseful mystery set on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1989. Housepainter Tommy Shakespear, a Golden Gloves boxer and Dartmouth B-school dropout, has to locate and persuade a terrified witness to return to Boston from the Vineyard, where she's been in hiding. She's the only one who can testify to the innocence of her not-so-innocent boyfriend, charged with attempted murder and grievous bodily...

Enough? So many celebrations, so much expressive music, dancing and drinking, so many entertaining plays, eye-beguiling movies, so much art, poetry, ballet, opera. I sit meditating when I'm not reading or writing. Or I'm feeding, walking, playing with my dog. That -- and family -- fills my time to bursting. Still I yearn. Why? Isn't this simple life enough? Who and what more could I let in? Or, rather, what should I let out?

This is the story of an assassin and a news reporter whose lives intertwine. Here be dragons, but only imaginary ones. And a 6th century Japanese goddess. Sarah Benton, maverick crime writer for L.A. Tempo, investigates a series of possible murders of prominent people whose bodies have never been found. Leef Leiden, a scholar and translator of Asian mythology, is also a professional killer who accepts assignments, but only with proof the intended target is a sociopath. Sarah and Leef cross paths, and they become involved. Although she is investigating the deaths he has caused, Sarah knows...