This taut page-turner in the Jack Beale mystery series is set against the beautiful backdrop of coastal New Hampshire and the azure waters of Belize. Jack Beale once again risks it all to save his beloved Max from a wealthy yachtsman who has swept Max off her feet, but is not who he appears to be.

Changing Tides: A Jack Beale Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Mason, K. D.

United States

UNKNO

When a woman's body is found under a slab of ice in the New Hampshire coastal town of Rye Harbor, the discovery triggers a series of events that will eventually threaten the life of Max, the feisty redheaded bartender at Ben's Place, and others as well. It is up to her best friend, Jack Beale, to unravel the mystery that takes them from coastal New England to Taos, New Mexico and Switzerland.

Harbor Ice

Seapoint Books and Media

IT HAS BEEN A BRUTALLY COLD WINTER in the New Hampshire coastal town of Rye Harbor, leaving drifts of sea water frozen solid in the salt marsh. Finally, the weather warms enough for the ice to begin to break up and float out to sea. That’s when a woman’s body is found under a slab of ice left by the outgoing tide. Max, the feisty redheaded bartender at Ben’s Place, recognizes that the body in the ice is her aunt’s partner. This triggers a series of events that will eventually threaten Max’s life as well. It is up to her best friend, Jack Beale, to unravel the mystery.

Harbor Ice (Jack Beale Mystery Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Running a marathon is hard enough by itself. To do so on trails, starting before sunrise, in the dark, is even more daunting. Throw into the mix a misguided obsession and you have all the makings of a killer run. Jack would find out that sometimes, as hard as you try, the best-laid plans don’t work out quite as intended. And, that’s exactly what happened when he took Max to a North Country Bed and Breakfast for a romantic weekend prior to running his first trail marathon. Those few days would draw them into a deadly mystery spanning two hundred years and 26.2 miles.

Killer Run (Jack Beale Mystery Series)

In this fifth book in the Jack Beale Mystery series, unseen forces at play may dramatically change the quiet seaside town of Rye Harbor forever. It’s early spring, and one of the town’s oldest homes, the Francis House, has just gone up in flames, revealing a badly burned body in the ashes. With help from an unexpected source, Jack and his friend Tom, the Police Chief, unravel the mystery fueled by a broken heart, a secret real estate deal, and a deadly double-cross.

Evil Intentions (Jack Beale Mystery Series)

Spring has arrived in the small New Hampshire coastal town of Rye Harbor and all seemed right in the world. Jack Beale and Max, the feisty red haired bartender at Ben’s Place, are back together after their split up the previous year and are looking forward to enjoying a carefree summer together. Then, someone who they thought was just a memory reappears, pursued by a psychotic killer. When he ends up dead, Jack and Max become the killer’s new targets. What should have been an easy, relaxing summer for Jack, Max and his cat, Cat, becomes a battle of wits and a fight for survival.

Dangerous Shoals (Jack Beale Mystery Series)

A summer heat wave blankets the New Hampshire seacoast. In an attempt to beat the heat, Jack’s best friend, Dave, arranges for a day of fishing far off shore on the boat Miss Cookie. Even though they land only a few fish, they pronounce the day a great success—until Jack spots smoke on the horizon and they convince the reluctant captain to bring them to investigate. What they find will have a profound effect upon all of their lives as they deal with the consequences of an Unexpected Catch.

Unexpected Catch (Jack Beale Mystery Series)

Jack and Max hire a delivery skipper, TJ, to bring her catamaran from Belize to Rye Harbor, New Hampshire. TJ takes on a mysterious woman as crew in Florida, but after she jumps ship in Gloucester, TJ enlists Jack’s help for the final leg of the delivery. In Gloucester, TJ, an incorrigible womanizer, reconnects with a former lover and crew mate, and that chance meeting triggers a search for a black schooner from his past—along with the chance it affords for closure and revenge. His search takes him through Kennebunkport, Boothbay, and Camden, Maine, and finally to the Isles of Shoals, where TJ and Jack’s friend Tom, the police chief of Rye Harbor, become targets of an unknown killer.

Black Schooner (Jack Beale Mystery Series)

Fate. Chance. Destiny. Call it what you will, but sometimes life changing events begin in the most innocent and unexpected ways. For Jack Beale that moment came on a perfect summer morning as he stood overlooking Rye Harbor when something caught his eye. In that small space between the bow of his boat and the float to which it was tied, a lifeless body had become wedged as the tide tried to sweep it out to sea. That discovery, and the arrival of Daniel would begin a series of events that would eventually take Max from him. Who was the victim? Why was Daniel there and what was his interest in Max? Was there a connection? And, so began a journey that would take Jack from Rye Harbor to Newport, RI and, eventually Belize, as he searched for answers.

Changing Tides (Jack Beale Mystery Series)

ON A STARLESS NIGHT in 1942, New Hampshire fisherman Ben Crouse takes his boat, Dorothy Kay, out of Rye Harbor in the midst of a storm to patrol against the threat of German U-boats. What—and whom—he encounters that night will change his life forever. More than half a century later, his niece, Courtney, receives a series of threatening phone calls. As she struggles to run her late uncle’s restaurant, navigate a new romance, and find answers to her family’s secret past, she turns to her friends Jack and Max, who must solve the mystery of Ben’s legacy and save her from the delusional children of the Third Reich.

Jessica's Secret (Jack Beale Mystery Series)

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