The Treasure of Way Down Deep by Ruth White is a young-adult mystery about the town of Way Down Deep that begins experiencing some strange and evil things—things that young Ruby Jolene Hurley thinks are connected to a 200-year-old buried treasure that she is determined to find and save the day (Available March 22, 2016).…
The Assassins by Gayle Lynds is a thriller where six international assassins, each assembled from a dark corner of the globe, team up together to steal a fortune from the middle of a Middle Eastern war zone (available June 30, 2015). Assassins. Six of them, to be precise, get the story rolling from the blood-streaked…
Treasure is a wonderful word. It conjures up images of jewels and gold and coin of the realm. It adorns classic novels like Treasure Island and classic movies like Treasure of the Sierra Madre. And if we add a second word to create the evocative phrase “treasure hunt,” then heroes, heroines, and the Walter Mitty’s…
The Missing Piece by Kevin Egan is a legal thriller set in NYC about a piece of treasure that goes missing during a trial and the search for where it went (available April 14, 2015). Viewers of the original Law and Order television series will be familiar with the wide staircase and ornate columns of…
The long-disputed ownership of the enormous Bahia Emerald may soon be simplified, as at least one claimant recently lost his legal bid. Ever since its discovery in Brazil in 2001, there have been strange, almost mythical, stories attached to the emerald, and genuine wrangling over the rights to the cluster of gem crystals, estimated to…
There will be gold lust, danger, and Scottish accents in confined spaces in the upcoming Black Sea (January, 2015). Directed by Kevin Macdonald (Last King of Scotland), it stars Jude Law as a desperate submarine captain who assembles a (rag-tag) group of (misfits and) divers to retrieve sunken Nazi gold from the cold dark sea.…
