Books like The wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island is Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure about a boy’s coming‑of‑age journey on a ship, featuring the iconic Long John Silver and shaping modern notions of pirates, treasure maps and tropical island tales.

A 1751 adventure of a sixteen‑year‑old orphan kidnapped by his uncle who follows the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

A Scottish tragedy set amid the 1745 Jacobite rising, The Master of Ballantrae follows two brothers whose rivalry is ignited by political conflict, inheritance disputes, and the looming threat of death.

Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The After House turns a thrilling shipboard setting into a tense murder mystery, combining classic detective intrigue with the suspense of axe‑handled murders on the high seas.

In Egypt, a sleepless dreamer uncovers a mysterious web of secrets, weaving intrigue and suspense into a haunting literary exploration that leads to a chilling climax.

Leaves from an emigrant’s journal documenting a 19th‑century voyage from New York to San Francisco, capturing the sights, feelings, and challenges of West Coast travel.

From the book:It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explo-rations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some seed of the elect; some long-egged, hot-headed youth must repeat to-day our dreams and wanderings of so many years ago; he will relish the pleasure, which should have been ours, to follow among named streets and numbered houses the country walks of David Balfour, to identify Dean, and Silvermills, and Broughton, and Hope Park, and Pilrig, and poor old Lochend - if it still be standing, and the Figgate Whins - if there be any of them left; or to push (on a long holiday) so far afield as Gillane or the Bass. So, perhaps, his eye shall be opened to behold the series of the generations, and he shall weigh with surprise his momentous and nugatory gift of life. You are still - as when first I saw, as when I last addressed you - in the venerable city which I must always think of as my home. And I have come so far; and the sights and thoughts of my youth pursue me; and I see like a vision the youth of my father, and of his father, and the whole stream of lives flowing down there far in the north, with the sound of laughter and tears, to cast me out in the end, as by a sudden freshet, on these ultimate islands. And I admire and bow my head before the romance of destiny.

A second novel by author Paul Monette explores the complexities of friendship and the search for buried treasure.

Margaret Maron's mystery, Slow Dollar, follows fictional judge Deborah Knott as she navigates a North Carolina case that turns to the intrigue of a circus.

A literary thriller about two men living in a world of fiction, words, scenes, characters, and the New York Times bestseller list, featuring a complex plot involving deception, envy, and the power of the written word.

381 pages ; 22 cm