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Christine Kling

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Christine Kling doesn’t just write about the sea — she's lived on it. She and her husband have sailed their boats across the Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and the Caribbean, and they’ve logged thousands of miles in a converted ambulance/RV when they’re on land. It’s a nomadic life, and it suits her just fine.
That life on the water is what powers her fiction. Her Seychelle Sullivan series follows a female tugboat captain on the Fort Lauderdale waterfront who keeps finding dead bodies in her waters. The Shipwreck Adventures trilogy sends readers globe-trotting through international nautical thrillers full of history, danger, and buried secrets. And her World War II novel, Whiskey Creek, tells the story of a young woman who takes the helm ...more

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	Dragon's Triangle (The Shipwreck Adventures #2) 3.69 avg rating — 3,777 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circle of Bones (The Shipwreck Adventures #1) 3.93 avg rating — 2,794 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surface Tension (Seychelle Sullivan, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 2,081 ratings — published 2002 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knight's Cross (The Shipwreck Adventures #3) 4.23 avg rating — 1,036 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cross Current (Seychelle Sullivan, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 889 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bitter End (Seychelle Sullivan #3) 4.24 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wreckers' Key (Seychelle Sullivan, #4) 4.31 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mourning Tide (Seychelle Sullivan, #5) 4.48 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seychelle Collection Boxed Set Books 1-4 4.39 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seychelle Sullivan Suspense Novels Boxed Set Books 4-5: South Florida Adventure Series 4.60 avg rating — 121 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I find it difficult to believe that I have let an entire year go by without blogging. I have no excuse other than I have felt like being silent what with all the other noise in the world. I’ve decided it’s time to change that. New year, new blog.

For those of you who have read my book, KNIGHT’S CROSS, you will remember that the book begins with Riley and Cole going to Turkey from Rhodes to visit th

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Surface Tension (Seychelle Sullivan, #1)

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“Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.”
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“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. —Edmund Burke”
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“Yeah. We blind guys can measure how hot a woman is by the way other guys stutter when they meet them. You just proved she’s at the top of the stutter scale.”
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“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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message 9: by Marilee

Dec 30, 2012 04:00PM

I just bought Wrecker's Key for my Kindle. You might want to update your page here at GoodReads... ie, it's already available on Amazon for Kindle. I hope to get reading soon.

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message 8: by Christine

Feb 21, 2012 06:19AM

You have the same name as me

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message 7: by Christine

Feb 19, 2012 08:49PM

Rick wrote: "Christine, I see great things in your future. Thanks for adding me as a friend. I will find Circle of Bones."

Rick,
Thanks back to you for the friending. Gosh, I hope that a year from now I'll be saying how amazingly clairvoyant you are :-) Now I'm off to find your profile and find out about your books. Thanks!
CK

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message 6: by Rick

Feb 19, 2012 07:31PM

Christine, I see great things in your future. Thanks for adding me as a friend. I will find Circle of Bones.

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message 5: by Christine

Feb 03, 2012 10:45AM

thanks for being my friend

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message 4: by Marshall

Apr 05, 2011 03:25PM

Hi Christine,

Thanks for being a friend. I just finished delivering a Hunter 50 to San Francisco from San Diego. Nice trip, nasty weather! Saturday night I'm presenting a program on my book, From Boys 2 Men, An Adventure in Paradise to the Mission Bay Yacht Club.

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message 3: by Beth

Feb 25, 2010 04:26PM

Hi Christine,
Thanks for befriending this fellow Goodreads author!

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message 2: by Sundang

Sep 22, 2008 06:36PM

Hi Christin.. thanks 4 being my friend ya

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message 1: by Daniel (last edited Apr 26, 2008 10:32AM)

Apr 26, 2008 10:31AM

Hi Christine, I've added Wrecker's Key and all your other books to my to-read list -- btw I loved the Florida Keys & Caribbean too.

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