Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears: A Cape Islands Mystery

In the exciting first of a projected trilogy featuring real-life Confederate naval hero Cmdr. Rafael Semmes, mystery author Peffer (Old School Bones ) spends as Continue reading »

Peffer (Killing Neptune's Daughter) explores sexual ambiguity in this offbeat legal procedural/whodunit. Callow public defender Michael DeCastro undergoes a baptism of fire with his first murder Continue reading »

Capt. Raphael Semmes of the Confederate navy continues his daring exploits at sea, covering vast tracts of the Atlantic between late 1861 and early 1863, in Peffer's engaging second book in Continue reading »

Hypocrisy and racism are rampant at Tolchester-Coates, a multicultural prep school outside Boston, in Peffer's downbeat third Cape Islands mystery (after 2006's Continue reading »

The gripping final volume of Peffer’s Civil War at Sea trilogy (after 2010’s Seahawk Hunting) follows three entwined stories: the exploits of Capt. Raphael Semmes aboard the CSS Alabama from January Continue reading »

In this well-told tale of real adventure at sea, Peffer (Seahawk Burning), a novelist and travel writer, deftly combines WWII military history with an exciting account of a group of deep Continue reading »

In this frenetic follow-up to Peffer’s Provincetown Follies, Bangkok Blues (2006), New Bedford, Mass., lawyer Michael Decastro travels to Bangkok at the Continue reading »