Murder on the High Seas: The True Story of the Joe Cool's Tragic Final Voyage

by Carol Cope

Off the coast of Cuba, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter spotted a ransacked vessel and rescued Kirby Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo, who chartered the Joe Cool for a trip to the Bahamas. They claimed that pirates ambushed the boat, killing the captain and crew. But in a Miami federal courtroom, prosecutors soon discovered the crew was hijacked and murdered-not by pirates-but by their own charter passengers.

Genres: True Crime

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 25, 2011

Reviews

[Veach Glines]

This is a "journalist-writer" who can not write. She knows the grammar and the facts, she just can't put them on the page in an interesting manner. The author should stick to writing legal reports. "Show don't tell" is not something she can do. At all.

[Koren]

This book is mostly about the trial. There is very little background information on the victims or the criminals. There isn't really even a lot of information about how the crime happened. It was a very boring read.

[Amanda Koziar]

Murder on the High Seas was my first true crime read, and I couldn't put it down. From page one, author Carol Cope drew me into the tragic tale as it unfolded in Miami, out at sea, in the courtrooms, and ending with a chilling face-to-face interview with one of the killers. I highly recommend this book to any who likes page turners.

[Patricia]

2018 Pop Sugar challenge- a book set at sea.