Ghost Ocean

7 best books like Ghost Ocean (S.M. Peters): Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945, Lud-in-the-Mist, Phantastes, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae, The Boy in the Window, Strangers She Knows, The Plea

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945

Author

Leo Marks

In 1942, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques...

Lud-in-the-Mist

Author	Hope Mirrlees
ISBN	1593600410

Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the conﬂuence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, fairy things had...

Phantastes

Author

George MacDonald

C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly.

In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly...

His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

Author	Graeme Macrae Burnet
ISBN	1910192147

In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of a seventeen-year-old crofter, Roderick Macrae. There is no question of Macrae’s guilt, but it falls to the country’s most eminent legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to his bloody...

The Boy in the Window

Author

Ditter Kellen

Jessica and Owen Nobles are heartbroken over the loss of their son, Jacob. Jessica has taken his death especially hard, spending the past three years sedated and under the care of a psychiatrist. Desperate to save his wife, Owen moves the couple to Florida, hoping a change in scenery will remind her how...

Strangers She Knows

Author

Christina Dodd

I have three deadly problems:
1. I've seriously offended a maniacal killer.
2. I just had a bullet removed from my brain.
3. My new daughter is growing up too fast--and she's in the line of fire.

Living on an obscure, technology-free island off California means safety from the murderer...

The Plea

Author	Steve Cavanagh
ISBN	1409152340

When David Child, a major client of a corrupt New York law firm, is arrested for murder, the FBI ask con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn to secure Child as his client and force him to testify against the firm.Eddie's not a man to be coerced into representing a guilty client, but the FBI have incriminating...