"The old Nantucket tradition of throwing a penny off the ferry to ensure your eventual return resonates for locals and visitors alike. But that ritual takes a sinister turn when, one by one, people start to disappear and the telltale pennies are foun...
Something more than hundred dollar bills is fake in the fifth in the popular series by Steven Axelrod. Police chief Henry Kennis has to untangle a revenge spree in which few people are who they claim to be. It begins with the bizarre murder of the is...
"Axelrod and his protagonist bring an amused, judicious, and ultimately tolerant eye to the foibles large and small of a mixed Santa's bag of characters." ―Kirkus ReviewsIt's Christmas Eve on Nantucket and prominent businessman Jackson Blum is abou...
During a long winter and short, chilly spring, a series of disturbing incidents rock the small resort island of Nantucket. A Land Bank executive dies in a suspicious hunting accident, a prominent local family's historic summer cottage burns down in a...
Henry Kennis, Nantucket island’s poetry-writing police chief who will remind readers of Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone and Spenser, works a second challenging case in Nantucket Five-spot. At the height of the summer tourist season, a threat to bo...
When Nantucket homeowner Preston Lomax is killed in his McMansion, everyone on the island could be a suspect. Lomax lived large, owed money, and the word was spreading he was planning to stiff them all and disappear. Chief of Police Henry Kennis, a n...
Michael Gersh is Hollywood insider; Rachel Scanlon is a neophyte fresh out of New York who wants to direct movies. It takes a long time for them to find each other. Rachel learns Hollywood from the bottom up, falling in love with her predatory agent ...