Patricia Fisher - Ship's Detective

'This series can take your breath away one minute and laughing until the tears start to roll the next.' On board the world's finest luxury cruise ship, the days are filled with sunshine, cocktails, and incredible new places to explore. Unless you are employed as the ship's detective, that is. That job falls to a lady called Patricia Fisher, a whip-smart sleuth whose special skills include attracting trouble, getting shot at, and running away screaming. So, when a mysterious stowaway is found murdered in the bowels of the ship, it falls firmly into her lap to work out not only who he is, but who killed him. To a backdrop of petty thefts, con artists targeting the rich and famous on board, and her own romance with the captain, the dead body leads to a surprising discovery and a word one should utter with care … Treasure. Thrown into a swirling maelstrom of deadly adventure, fifty-something Patricia is going to have her sleuthing skills tested to the maximum. Get ready for murder and mayhem on the high seas. 'She's like a modern-day Miss Marple, but I have never laughed so hard in all my life!'

Delve into the frenetic world of Patricia Fisher, but be wary of the undertow – most readers get pulled in and never come out again. What's worse than one dead body? Two, right? Wrong. It's not so much the number of bodies that Patricia needs to worry about, it's how far up the mystery meter they score, and this latest case is a doozey. Confused by the clues, Patricia and team must work against the clock to discover the truth. It's not so simple as following a breadcrumb trail of clues though and when the body count continues to climb … well, can anyone figure out what is going on? An ape on the loose, a suspiciously empty glass tank in a storage room, and someone working very hard in the background to derail Patricia's efforts. Could this be Patricia's toughest case yet? The stakes have never been higher and if she doesn't keep her head, she might lose it all.

Reaching the British Unions Isles, the passengers and crew arrive in time for the annual pirate festival. It's party time! But when Patricia and friends leave the ship, they find an eccentric millionaire waiting to hire them … … and his fireside spooky ghost story is too good not to investigate. Patricia expects to figure this one out before happy hour arrives, but when the sun goes down and her client goes missing, the game gets downright scary. Are there ghosts on this island? Has the client been snatched by vengeful spirits? The locals certainly thinks so and they seem to know why. Facing an unknown adversary, and the very real possibility that they are trying to catch perpetrators who died hundreds of years ago, Patricia and her team need help. This kind of mystery calls for a specialist, so it's a good thing Patricia knows one. I wonder who that could be?

If you devote your life to seeking revenge … Whether Confucius had it right or not is of little consequence to Patricia Fisher right now because she's on the run from multiple criminals plus the cruise ship's security team who have orders to arrest her on sight. Her arch nemesis, Angelica Howard-Box, has finally figured out how to win and she is going all out to make Patricia's life a living hell. Dressed in a pink anime kitten outfit, cut off from her friends, and forced to perform ridiculous tasks because Angelica is suddenly holding all the cards. It's Patricia's toughest challenge yet, and she must race against time if she wants to find a way to turn the tables.

When a single shot rings out to shatter the quiet at a prominent museum, it signals the start of a new mystery Patricia Fisher cannot avoid investigating. An apparent suicide, a missing woman, a sunken treasure ship worth billions, and suspicious behaviour from almost everyone she meets … well, that might be a lot to take for some people. For Patricia Fisher, it's just Thursday. She's in Rio on the trail of an altogether different mystery, however it's not long before Patricia questions if the two cases might not be intertwined. What did happen to Professor Noriega? Was his death a terrible accident? If so, why was there a man onboard the Aurelia pretending to be the professor? With faithful companions at her side, our English sleuth will have to roll the dice and take some chances for she only has two days to uncover the truth.

With a billionaire about to get married onboard the Aurelia and a guest list that reads like a celebrity who's who, tension among the security team is understandably high. They are being extra vigilant, but that doesn't stop the bride-to-be receiving a death threat if she dares to go through with the ceremony. So who sent it and is the threat genuine? Could it be from one of the groom's four ex-wives? None were invited, yet they all turned up and while there is no love between them, they appear to be plotting. It's Patricia's job to figure things out and she is glad for every bit of help she can get. Thankfully old friend and celebrity wedding planner, Felicity Philips, is there to lend a hand even if her sleuthing skills are a little … questionable. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery before it impacts the wedding ceremony, Patricia is soon thrown off course when a murder occurs. With a celebrity columnist on the ship stirring things up in the hope of a winning headline, the bride's skanky family looking for a fast score, and the ship crawling with more celebrities than a red carpet in Hollywood, Patricia has her work cut out. Oh, and Lady Mary is back, so that will help ... not!

When they found the body of a stowaway in the bowels of the ship, no one could have predicted the storm of trouble heading their way. Three-hundred-year-old coins found with the dead man's meager belongings point to a treasure thought lost to the ocean long ago. However, when the arrival of a murderous mystery figure forced Patricia and her friends to figure things out for themselves, they questioned if the trail they now follow might just lead to one of the greatest treasure finds ever recorded. Some might call that exciting, but for the gang on board the Aurelia, they have another word: deadly. They are playing someone else's game and not only are the rules unclear, they are constantly one step behind. In the Canaries, they were being spied on. In Rio they found only bodies instead of answers – the mystery man left no one alive to reveal his secrets. Arriving in New York, things are about to get a whole lot worse. But sometimes the only way to avoid trouble is to hit it head on.

More than three hundred years ago, the officers and crew of a Spanish treasure ship embarked on a quest to pull off the greatest heist the world would ever know. What became of them has remained hidden by time, but now two parties are closing in on the truth and the billions in gold and jewels that went missing all those years ago. Xavier Silvestre wants the treasure. He is rich, resourceful, and ruthless. He also has one of Patricia Fisher's friends and that's more than enough to get her involved. Patricia has no interest in the treasure, she just wants her gang to feel whole again, but she doesn't know who the other treasure hunter is, and she has no idea where he is. The only thing she does know is what he wants, and she is in a desperate scramble to find it first. Get ready for white-knuckle adventure.

Island Life: Patricia Fisher: Ship's Detective - A Cozy Mystery Adventure Including Free Novella - "Miami High Five" - A Patricia Fisher / Piper Harris mystery Moored among the tranquil islands off Thailand's coast, the Aurelia's passengers are completely unaware of the danger lurking just out of sight. Patricia would happily remain oblivious, too, but that's not really how her life works. So when a couple report their teenage kids have gone missing, the ship's detective swings into action. Had she glimpsed the terror awaiting her, she might have thought twice. There's a secret to uncover, the kind people will kill to protect, and she must expose it if there is any hope of rescuing the missing teenagers. More alone than usual, running for her life, and short on plans, things don't look like they can get much worse. Which is when she sees the Aurelia sailing into the sunset without her on board. Get ready for mystery and mayhem! Including Miami High Five, a Patricia Fisher Piper Harris Crossover Story. Narrated by Gill Mills and Jenn Lee.