Sean O'Brien Series

Mermaids. Mysterious, seductive, beautiful. The world has a collective fascination for the myths and illusions of mermaids. In Mermaid, the line between make-believe and murder evaporates when the body of a young woman in a mermaid tail washes ashore on a Florida beach. Police think her death is an accident, maybe connected to a big budget movie filming in the area. After another girl, this one working as a mermaid at a theme park, drowns-Sean O'Brien becomes involved because the daughter of his close friend may be the next victim, and O'Brien knows there are no coincidences or illusions when it comes to murder.

When Sean O'Brien watches a girl darting through traffic to pick up money she dropped, he stops to help. The next time he sees her face it's during a TV newscast. She's vanished. As the case grows cold, Sean can't forget the touching story she shared with him. To find her, he must enter the dark web, infiltrate a global criminal ring, outwit one of the sharpest and most inhuman minds he's ever faced in a battle where the girl's life is reduced to a matter of days.