After decades at seas, pirate legend Jose’ Gasparilla is prepared to retire. As he and his crew split their treasure, the promise of one final prize lures the ship back into action. Little do they know that the purported riches are nothing but a trap set by the fledgling U.S.…
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Backwater Tide
There is one word that brings out the worst in people: TREASURE. When special agent Kurt Hunter finds a boat adrift in the Biscayne National Park with the dead body of a famous treasure hunter aboard, the race is on to find his killer. Alliances shift and the bodies start…
Backwater Flats
If you can’t trust the law, who can you trust?When an officer’s murder in Biscayne National Park threatens to expose a corrupt agency, one man is tasked with finding the killer, but he’s running into a wall of organizational conspiracy built to conceal a devious plot.Special Agent Kurt Hunter is…
Backwater Grave
A killer is on the loose in South Florida’s national parks . . . And the trail of bodies leads to Special Agent Kurt Hunter.When a string of not-so-accidental drownings in the parks attracts the attention of the FBI, Kurt is drawn into a quagmire of bureaucrats and politicians, each…
Backwater Key
Would you commit a murder if no one was watching? Congress can’t pass a budget and Biscayne National Park is paying the price. With Special Agent Kurt Hunter out of work, two rivals gangs start a turf war in the park. But when a body is found hanging from the…
Backwater Pass
How many lives is a cover-up worth? When a bridge collapses and kills six people, National Park Service Special Agent Kurt Hunter is drawn into a tangled web of political machinations. With the bridge debris scheduled to be turned into an artificial reef in the park, Kurt and Justine are…
Backwater Bay
How much would it take for you to kill someone close?From Bestselling Author Steven Becker comes a new mystery series:When a body is found floating in the mangroves of Biscayne National Park, Special Agent Kurt Hunter has his first real case. He’s not looking for the spotlight or notoriety—he’s had…
Backwater Channel
You’d think a nuclear power plant was dangerous enough … That’s what special agent Kurt Hunter thought until, while out fishing, he witnesses a murder at the Turkey Point nuclear power plant. After being assigned the case, Kurt is pulled into the convoluted politics of Miami only to find out…
Backwater Cove
Would you commit murder to sign a top high school recruit? When National Parks Service special agent Kurt Hunter finds a woman washed up on his remote island in Biscayne National Park the case leads him to the world of high rolling boosters and the young players who will do…
Accused in Paradise
It sucks to be caught off guard, especially before coffee on what’s otherwise a perfect, sunny, Florida Keys day. Luckily, Madison and Fabiana have friends who owe favors on speed dial. Travis West, a shady Miami lawyer with a swanky address, is dead, and the prime suspect is Tarpon Cove’s…