Oceanview Publishing imprint: 152 books

Danger escalates as Michael Knight and Lex Devlin enter into the defense of a Puerto Rican jockey charged with felony murder as a result of a fixed race at Boston's Suffolk Downs. As their investigation exposes the jockey's role, they become embroiled in a conflict between two Puerto Rican...

Winner of the Florida Book Award for Popular Fiction and the ForeWord Book of the Year Award for thriller/suspense.

DEATH'S WITNESS by Paul Batista reached two landmarks. It made the Amazon Weekly Ebook bestseller list at number 72 and USA Today General Bestseller List at number 132.

The quiet beauty of Longboat Key is shattered when a young groom is shot to death on the beach the day after his wedding. His father is an old army buddy of Matt Royal, and Matt tries to soften the anguish of his friend by finding his son's murderer. Matt's search takes on added complexity when there...

When a serial killer shows up on Longboat Key, Florida after a twelve year absence, Matt Royal is stymied. The first woman killed on Longboat Key has ties to a secretive government agency for which Matt's best friend Jock Algren works. Was this a coincidence or was she a targeted kill? Matt's friend,...

2016 ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL 2016 LEFTY AWARD NOMINEE 2016 SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE Nightmares of the man he killed two years ago still chase Rick Cahill through his sleep. The memory of his murdered wife haunts him during waking hours. His private investigative work,...

Matt Royal has gotten himself into a royal mess After a week away, Matt Royal's ready to get back to the Longboat Key good life good fishing, good food, good beer, and more good fishing. But Matt comes back to bad news: while he was away, a sniper tried to kill one of his best friends. Even...

This story couldn’t be any more timely. It looks behind the headlines, into the lives of those involved in these tragedies and the events that might lead up to them.”—Book Reviews for Avid Readers Officer Randy Spelling had always wanted to be a police officer, to follow in the footsteps...

Happily married and pregnant with her first child, artist Kali Miller probes Lillian Campbell, her ninety-three year old grandmother, for information about her roots and her mother's accidental death when Kali was a child.  But the impact on her grandmother and the answers that Kali gets are anything...

International Best-seller! USA Today best-selling author School Library Journal, Best Adult Books for Teens List 2015 Gold Winner in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin awards Winner of 2015 National Indie Excellence Award For Suspense Finalist Best New Fiction, USA Best...

• First in a new PI series • Reminiscent of J. D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee • Sarasota, Florida, is primary setting • From the white sand beaches of Florida’s west coast to the murky waters of Xochimilco, Mexico • The search for an endangered amphibian species, Axolotl • A complex mystery...

Finalist 2016 RONE Award Jock Algren arrives on Longboat Key in a state of depression and hopelessness. His most recent mission for his secretive U.S. government intelligence agency has been disastrous and his friends Matt Royal and J. D. Duncan aren't sure they'll be able to pull him out of...

USA Today best-selling author A 1935 hurricane in the Florida Keys destroyed the East Coast Railway, killed five-hundred people and blew away the town of Islamorada. Lost in that storm was Mathew Kriegel, a finance director for the railroad, and one and a quarter million dollars in gold. Now...

For Better or Worse—A Move to L.A. It is 1961 in the fourth book of the Black Stiletto series. Judy, the Stiletto, meets Leo, a charismatic man who convinces her to move to Los Angeles when she is run out of New York by increasingly hazardous police heat. But soon Judy suspects that Leo is...