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Santa Nepenthe may just be the last unspoiled paradise in the Caribbean. With no source of fresh water beyond the daily tropical showers and no natural resources, who would want to bother with this island? The Souza family has ruled over the rock's small population since pirate days and everyone seems quite happy with their simple existence, until Emmanuel Souza, the current Supreme Leader, decides to bring some modern improvements to Santa Nepenthe, like the Internet and a community of retirement condos for wealthy American snowbirds.Enter Margo Drelve, reporter for a daily New York newspaper. Margo sees Santa Nepenthe as the perfect place to go in order to write the Great American novel with no distractions or interruptions. On arriving at the island's port city, Margo meets two of the islands entrepreneurs, a chap known as Sport, who runs the island's only bar and Maynard Morais, who owns the island's telephone exchange and its only taxi cab. And then there's Alphonse Friend, a New Jersey gangster hiding on Santa Nepenthe from the IRS, who decides to challenge the Souza family's long time rule with an eye toward building big hotels and casinos across the small island nation. What could possibly go wrong?

Dave Holman, the Texas detective is back! When a teenage girl is kidnapped, her mother is afraid to go to the police because she is an undocumented Mexican worker. Dave Holman is recommended to her as someone she can trust and Holman is ready to take on the Russian mafia to help the woman get her daughter back. But the Russians know Holman's Achilles heel. Dave's partner, Yolanda, who runs the Rockport Elephant Rescue has a baby elephant that she loves dearly. If Holman won't back down, the gangsters promise to torture baby elephant Sammi in front of Yolanda. What will Dave Holman do faced with this pachyderm predicament? This may be the Texas detectives most challenging case to date!

A body has been slashed to death in a motel room locked from the inside. The windows are painted shut, so how did the murderer get out? Plus the fact that the slashed body is infected with the deadly Ebola virus! The victim is an artist visiting from Finland to promote a series of paintings he's made of war and bloodshed in Africa, and an unfinished canvas in the locked room is of a beautiful African woman, who is also nowhere to be found. The Rockport Police are baffled until private detective Dave Holman volunteers to help them find an answer. Sworn to protect the motel owner where the body was found, Dave Holman travels far beyond his Texas base looking for answers.