検索キーワード： 著者 "Thomas Hollyday" すべてのカテゴリー

John Thornton, a self-made wealthy young entrepreneur, inherits his ancient family shipyard in the harbor town of River Sunday, Maryland. To carry out a childhood promise he intends to find the local traitor who, decades ago in 1941, betrayed his grandfather’s ship, War Boat, to a U-Boat ambush and mass murder.

The location of an ancient treasure in a Chesapeake harbor town dies with the heart attack of an elderly priest, its finder, and the town is suddenly overwhelmed by prospectors who will do anything to find the gold.

Harry Jacobsen is a disgraced failure of a foreign correspondent. Fired from a respected New York City paper, he takes refuge as editor for a small weekly in a quiet town on the Chesapeake. It’s not quiet for long. A trio of children come across the sunken hulk of a Black man’s racing boat, lost 30 years ago. The captain, Walker John Douglas, had crashed his vessel after killing two white women and burning down half the town in a period of racial unrest. Harry's investigative reporter instincts kick in, and he begins to delve into the history of Walker and the infamous inferno.

Two people, an idealistic woman and a pragmatic man, must compromise between saving nature or humanity. Along with everyone in River Sunday, Maryland, they face ravenous creatures appearing all over the world from a sudden climate catastrophe.

On July 4, 1946, Navy Captain Edward Lawson stole a secret seaplane for Soviet Union spies, but he and the plane crashed at sea. When historian Mike Howard is pressured by Lawson's grandson, Jesse, from River Sunday, Maryland, to search for the traitor's corpse, he refuses. However, Jesse convinces him there is more to the story. Mike’s investigation causes deadly threats from a large aircraft manufacturer, and Mike and his pilot pal, Robin, narrowly escape a team of killers.

An expensive real estate development is halted when contractors find an ancient relic. The state of Maryland insists that archaeologists must determine the historical value of the site before construction proceeds. Frank Light, a famous archaeologist, is sent by his university to study the site - a mudflat on an old farm. The relic appears to be part of an old ship, but a local black pastor insists the site covers a graveyard for slaves.

In River Sunday, a Chesapeake harbor town, a fierce fire burns a popular retired doctor to death in the church he has been constructing. His grandson, who has just returned home as a vet crippled from war, suspects murder, but has no idea who would want to kill the old man.