The Stingaree Murders

286 pp. "It was a beautiful day when Mr Leonarde Reade's party set sail for a week long cruise from the Louisiana marshes, although there were one or two omens that things weren't going to go as planned. Thirteen guests is never a good idea, be it at a table or on a boat, but the death threat from the notorious Stingaree gang probably was a bad sign too. When Governor Lacroix, one of the guests, is stabbed while alone in a fishing boat, with the barb from a stingaree (i.e. a stingray) buried in the wound, it becomes clear that the threat was real. But with a killer stalking the boat, a killer determined to strike again – and again – is anybody safe from the dreaded Stingaree?"