Bøker av Sylvia Weiss Sinclair

The Killer Shrimp of Dauphin Island is a "southern" thriller, about an eleven-year-old boy, Noah and his fourteen-year-old brother, Mike. They are spending the summer on Dauphin Island, with their mother, while their father is off to war in Afghanistan.One sunny summer's day, Noah goes swimming in the shallows, while Mike tries his luck fishing at the end of the pier. Suddenly, Noah starts screaming: his toes are on fire! He runs out of the water. Sitting down in the dry white sand, he sees blood oozing from tiny cuts all over his feet. There is something attached to his big toe, a tiny shrimp with ragged pointy teeth dug into his skin.

Susan, a successful businesswoman, watches in despair as her son, Kyle, is charged with possession of drugs. For Kyle it is part of a downward spiral brought on by two unreliable father figures and bullying at school. As Kyle's life begins to descend further, Susan decides that the best way to reach out to her son is to take him with her on a journey to Romania. Here Susan hopes to find long lost family secrets, but as Susan and Kyle venture further into Eastern Europe, they discover so much more.

Set against the sultry summer heat of Alabama and the racial tensions of the deep south in the decades before the Civil Rights Act is the story of the ghost of old man Gelsinger and his haunting of Dyas Creek. Spanning three generations of women, the story draws them in, but his fortune-stashed in mason jars-remains hidden. As the world changes, even in a sleepy southern town, the legend of the old man and his fortune lives on, but will the mystery ever be solved?