Charles Locks: August 2008

“Charles Locks has signaled his arrival in the land of Carl Hiassen, Tim Dorsey, James W. Hall, and Les Standiford with Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles, a story with the kind of murder and romance that my readers can’t get enough of.” —Mitchell Kaplan, Books and Books, Coral Gables, Florida (former president of the American Booksellers Association)

Captain Brian Trilogy

Books in the Trilogy are sequential, spanning nearly a decade. The award-winning Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles is a good place to start, but each book stands on its own.

Charles Locks

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Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles received a number of terrific reviews as well as the Midwest Independent Publishers Association's first-place award for commercial fiction. Low Jinks on the High Seas and Epic Trials in the Leeward Isles—a continuation of the Captain Brian saga—are also now available in trade paperback and Kindle.

About Me

Chasman: I earned a degree at Macalester College, but didn’t allow that experience to get in the way of my education. Serving as a combat marine in Vietnam prepared me for Island Time, tropical storms, and the shortage of women and water, but it didn’t prepare me for pirates, fairy dust, and little boys who never grow up. I endured the Caribbean’s eternal carnival with help from Callwood's Rum and Bomba's mushroom tea—in medicinal doses only. When faced with the ineffable question of where to go when you leave paradise, my answer was to settle on a river in northwestern Wisconsin where my one palm tree is protected by double-glazed windows and where moko jumbies dance among the white pines that still remain after a five-second microburst toppled and topped over a hundred of the largest trees, providing me with a lifelong hobby in landscaping and building-repair.

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