"Fast moving...A natural storyteller who sticks straight to the line."
New York Times Book Review

First, a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore. Then, a young scuba diver sent
to investigate the wreck is found floating lifeless in the water. Doc Adams, the unhappy friend of
the unlucky aquarian, has just been launched through the stormy seas and blood-flecked sands
of the Cape Cod coast to plumb a murder he should have prevented. There he uncovers a hidden
treasure in illegal arms and barely survives a near-fatal confrontation with a gun. That leaves the
killers he's hunting with the comfortable feeling that Doc is dead.

Now Doc can watch for the first wrong move they make.

Billingsgate Shoal won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel.

Rick Boyer is the author of several Doc Adams mysteries including Billingsgate Shoal (for which he won an Edgar Award for Best First Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America) The Penny Ferry, The Daisy Ducks, Moscow Metal, The Whale's Footprints, Gone to Earth and Yellow Bird. He is a long-time resident of Concord, Massachusetts, and teaches writing in Asheville, North Carolina.

Christopher Lane is an award-winning actor, director, and narrator. Earning rave reviews on every book he has narrated for Blackstone, he received the coveted Audie Award in 2004. He lives in Washington, D.C.