Joan Druett’s Beckoning Ice, the fifth in her series of Wiki Coffin nautical mysteries, is free today and tomorrow on Kindle. Joan’s detective, Wiki Coffin, is a half-Maori, half-Yankee “linguister,” who is also the representative of American law and order with the U.S. Exploring Expedition fleet in 1839. Against the backdrop of the treacherous Southern Ocean, Wiki is called upon to solve the murder of a young naval lieutenant, while avoiding the increasingly determined attempts on his own life.  A great mystery. (See our also our review from last December.)  Click here to download a free copy of Beckoning Ice.

My novel, Hell Around the Horn, is also free today and tomorrow. Based on an actual voyage, the novel is set on a British windjammer rounding Cape Horn in the particularly brutal winter of 1905.  Hell Around the Horn, is a story of survival and the human spirit. Click here to download a free copy of Hell around the Horn.