From the author of The Sea Glass Murders and the Dasha Petrov thriller series
SHIP OF TEARS
From Penmore Press, Publishers of Nautical Historical Fiction
America’s fastest, finest troopship U.S.S. James F. Bridger is five days out of Pearl and headed for the Solomon Islands. The ship is hosting The First Marine Division, and Bridger’s executive officer Commander Jonas Pratt, USNR, is maintaining order from her boiler rooms to her masthead. But Bridger’s safe, steady passage is disrupted by a man overboard alarm. A pool of blood on B Deck near a boarding gate suggests something more sinister.
A small-town lawyer in civilian life, Pratt senses a brush with criminality. Murder is the only reasonable explanation.
When another murdered Marine turns up in a forward hold, Pratt and his team must find a serial killer with access to every part of a huge ship carrying thousands of men destined for the fight of their lives. Pratt’s manhunt takes him all the way to the Battle of Henderson Field and a confrontation with Japan’s vaunted Sendai Division. Only when he’s shoulder to shoulder with a devoted band of tough young Marines will Pratt discover the true price of duty. But will he find justice for Bridger’s murdered souls?