Unlock your inner Sherlock. He was the last man Lars Marlin had expected to see in Rio de Janeiro- and it had taken most of his willpower never to slay him on the spot.

Paco Corvino was a smooth-talking and slippery con guy, a contraband runner, and escaped convict . not to mention murderer. He also was the man responsible for changing Captain Lars Marlin into Convict 3827645 from the penal colony in French Guiana referred to as Devil’s Isle- a prison from which he had only escaped.

An about Cargo of Coffins unstoppable whirlwind of events brings Paco on board as the debonair chief steward of a luxury oceangoing yacht with an heiress and her rich friends as travellers. At the helm is certainly skipper Lars Marlin. No one else knows that Paco and Lars are bitter competitors with a vintage rating to settle, or that this voyage will become their final showdown upon the high seas. “Also, about halfway through the storyplot there’s a right-angle story twist that would make Jeffrey Deaver happy, very efficiently lulling readers inside a false sense of protection before surprising the heck out of these. A first-rate experience yarn.” -Booklist