Stowaway: Mystery & Suspense aboard the Half Moon

by Jerry Beller

There is a murderer aboard the Half Moon. The Dutch ship sails with an English Captain. Dutch and English, the crew threatens mutiny. Will Captain Hudson survive? Will the murderer be caught before he murders again? Will anybody survive to tell the story?

171 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 8, 2013

About the author

Jerry Beller (1957-present) was born in Vernon, Texas, but grew up in Norman, Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and has since lived in Washington DC, Jamaica and Florida, before settling in Atlanta, Georgia. Beller has written novels and screenplays for three decades, and the novels will be released two or three per year for the next decade or longer. Beller writes historical fiction, including the "American Myth series", which covers American History from before the republic, up to the present. Additionally, Beller writes general fiction, political thrillers, romance and mysteries. He also writes extensively about Jamaica, as he once lived there, is married to a Jamaican woman, has two half-Jamaican children and considers it his home away from home. Expect a steady dose of releases by this author over the next decade or two.

Jerry Beller will release five books in 2013, the first which was MADDAM PRESIDENT on Valentine's Day.

MADAM PRESIDENT follows President Kalinda Resbo, the first female and black president, as she runs for reelection, while fulfilling the many duties that come with the most difficult job in the world. With the election as a backdrop, madam weaves through an Iranian Crisis, an investigation into moles and corruption in the FBI, Congress and corporate America. Beller addresses many real events and people who are part of current events for the USA during 2012, while also creating many interesting fictional characters. President Resbo's runs for reelection as an independent, running against congress and the two party system, advocating a different approach to politics, solutions that go outside those the democrats and republicans squabble over.
HEY JOE will be released on April 1. It follows an American who moves to Jamaica to write a book and pursue a great adventure. The story is largely one of a white American attempted to be accepted by the locals as more than just another Joe. He meets a wide variety of interesting Jamaican characters along the way. He falls in love with nature, the culture and the people of Portland Parish in the northeast corner of Jamaica.

Beller will return to the American Myth series in June with the release of ALFRED WELLERS, a historical fiction piece about the first European to settle in North America.
1993, also of the American Myth series, will be released in September. This is a thriller with murder, treason and corporate crimes as the backdrop.
Beller will return to the Jamaica Series in December with the release of NUH JOE, the second part of the Port Antonio segment of the Jamaica series. NUH JOE follows River Adams after he becomes known to the locals in the Portland Parish of Jamaica as Nuh Joe. He continues his great Jamaican adventure, but NUH JOE is more of an adventure romance compared HEY JOE.

Reviews

[Zoe Saadia · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Alfred Wellers" is a well researched historical novel that takes the reader straight into the midst of the bubbling-with-life-and-business Amsterdam of the early 17th century, where the international trade of these times centered almost solely. The Half Moon, a newly build ship, is about to leave in order to find the passage through the Northern Sea, with its captain being an English man and suspected by the Dutch.

The ship might have never made it, neither through the Northern Sea, nor to its destiny to 'discover' the Hudson River, but for a young boy of 12, Alfred Wellers, the son of the influential Amsterdam man, engineer and merchant. A good boy as he was, Alfred just couldn't help it, fascinated by the ship and its destination. His following decision was to change his life and much more than this.

This novel will take the reader on a wonderful adventure, following the real historical happenings that proved that the history can make its own breathtaking stories, with no need to embellish or add; just to make a terrific research and to put it skillfully on the paper. Alfred Wellers proved that the honorable brave men were always around, in the most questionable times of history and beyond it.

[Lcdk · Rating 5 out of 5]

A different and fresh new read. The story is unique and captivating, it's written in a way that for me stayed entertaining and intriguing from start to finish. There are many twists and turns that are hard to anticipate and foresee as the story progresses, adding an element of suspense to the read for me and contributing another big factor in why I enjoyed the book so much.

The characters are also very original, they all fit into the story in their own unique way and have just the right amount of detail for them to not seem too plain or too over the top - they have just enough characteristics written in a way that almost seems life-like. I enjoyed how the plot progresses, it's definitely well thought-out and you can tell that the author has put a lot of passion and effort and not just time into making this book the best that it possibly can be.

[Sylvia · Rating 5 out of 5]

'Alfred Wellers' is a beautifully written, heart-warming story of a young boy who takes his future into his own hands when he leaves on a ship set to sail for the new world. Along the way he has to endure the terrifying storms and the incompetent crew of the ship. He later runs from it and makes his home with nature and near the natives, taking on a whole new set of challenges.

Jerry Beller makes you feel as if you are right there alongside Alfred Weller, with detailed world building in tune to the year 1609, and memorable characters who come to life right off of the page. This is easily one of my favorite historical fiction novels of the year.