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Stories set in the intimate, inescapable world of island life, where everyone knows everyone, secrets travel on the salt air, and the sea defines every boundary.

The Man Made of Smoke

by Alex North

A father vanishes from an island cliff. A killer hunts those who looked away from a boy's abduction.

3.73

31k+

🗡️ Serial Killer Thriller 📖 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Cold Case Investigation 💀 Revenge Thriller 🌑 Dark Atmosphere

The Man Made of Smoke

A father vanishes from an island cliff. A killer hunts those who looked away from a boy's abduction.

by Alex North 2025

3.73

31k+ ratings

🗡️ Serial Killer Thriller 📖 Literary Crime Fiction 🔍 Cold Case Investigation 💀 Revenge Thriller 🌑 Dark Atmosphere

Swan Song

by Elin Hilderbrand • 2025

Nantucket's new money couple hires a starry-eyed concierge, but the real currency is secrets.

4.02

162k+

🏖️ Summer Beach Town 💰 New Money Arrives 👀 Employee Sees Secrets 🔍 Disappearance Mystery 🤗 Found Family

Swan Song

Nantucket's new money couple hires a starry-eyed concierge, but the real currency is secrets.

by Elin Hilderbrand 2025

4.02

162k+ ratings

🏖️ Summer Beach Town 💰 New Money Arrives 👀 Employee Sees Secrets 🔍 Disappearance Mystery 🤗 Found Family

The Mermaid of Black Conch

by Monique Roffey • 2020

A captured mermaid is rescued by a lonely fisherman. In his bathtub, she becomes a woman.

3.86

20k+

🧜‍♀️ Mythic Retelling 🔮 Cursed Woman 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Colonial Legacy 🤟 Deaf Representation

The Mermaid of Black Conch

A captured mermaid is rescued by a lonely fisherman. In his bathtub, she becomes a woman.

by Monique Roffey 2020

3.86

20k+ ratings

🧜‍♀️ Mythic Retelling 🔮 Cursed Woman 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Colonial Legacy 🤟 Deaf Representation

Summerhouse

by Yiğit Karaahmet • 2025

On a Turkish island, a gay couple's life unravels when desire for a young neighbor turns murderous.

3.59

674

🖤 Literary Suspense ⏳ Age Gap Desire 💔 Long-Term Relationship 👁️ Voyeurism And Obsession 🪦 Cover Up A Death

Summerhouse

On a Turkish island, a gay couple's life unravels when desire for a young neighbor turns murderous.

by Yiğit Karaahmet 2025

3.59

674 ratings

🖤 Literary Suspense ⏳ Age Gap Desire 💔 Long-Term Relationship 👁️ Voyeurism And Obsession 🪦 Cover Up A Death

Tides & Drift

by Adrienne Young • 2024

The heir to a harbor crime family falls for the trader who should be his enemy.

3.86

764

🏴‍☠️ Pirate Fantasy 💔 Forbidden Love 🏚️ Family Of Criminals 🫂 Found Family 🩹 Hurt/Comfort

Tides & Drift

The heir to a harbor crime family falls for the trader who should be his enemy.

by Adrienne Young 2024

3.86

764 ratings

🏴‍☠️ Pirate Fantasy 💔 Forbidden Love 🏚️ Family Of Criminals 🫂 Found Family 🩹 Hurt/Comfort

Illumination Night

by Alice Hoffman • 1987

A housebound mother and a gentle giant on Martha's Vineyard dare to leave their private prisons.

3.75

9k+

🏠 Domestic Magical Realism 🚪 Housebound Protagonist 🌟 Child's Vivid Imagination ☀️ Melancholy Summer 🤝 Unlikely Connection

Illumination Night

A housebound mother and a gentle giant on Martha's Vineyard dare to leave their private prisons.

by Alice Hoffman 1987

3.75

9k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Magical Realism 🚪 Housebound Protagonist 🌟 Child's Vivid Imagination ☀️ Melancholy Summer 🤝 Unlikely Connection

Wrecker

by Carl Hiaasen • 2023

Blackmailed by smugglers, a Key West teen hides their counterfeit cargo in the cemetery he scrubs.

4.05

5k+

🐠 Ecological Mystery 🪦 Inherited Guilt ⛵ Nautical Adventure 🔍 Teen Sleuthing Duo 🕯️ Graveyard Atmosphere

Wrecker

Blackmailed by smugglers, a Key West teen hides their counterfeit cargo in the cemetery he scrubs.

by Carl Hiaasen 2023

4.05

5k+ ratings

🐠 Ecological Mystery 🪦 Inherited Guilt ⛵ Nautical Adventure 🔍 Teen Sleuthing Duo 🕯️ Graveyard Atmosphere

The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club

by Martha Hall Kelly

Three sisters' book club shelters a German defector on Martha's Vineyard as a spy closes in.

3.95

28k+

🏠 WWII Home Front 📚 Wartime Book Club ⏳ Dual Timeline 👭 Wartime Sisters 🤝 Found Family

The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club

Three sisters' book club shelters a German defector on Martha's Vineyard as a spy closes in.

by Martha Hall Kelly 2025

3.95

28k+ ratings

🏠 WWII Home Front 📚 Wartime Book Club ⏳ Dual Timeline 👭 Wartime Sisters 🤝 Found Family

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