Order of Joan Druett Books
Joan Druett is a New Zealand author of historical fiction and non-fiction books. She specializes in maritime history. Joan earned her B.A. in English literature from Victoria University of Wellington. She worked as a biology and English literature teacher for years. She also travelled abroad to Canada, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East. Joan didn’t get published until she was 40, but she had always wanted to since she was a teenager. She and her husband Ron have two sons and six grandchildren.
Joan Druett made her debut as a novelist in 1988 with the standalone novel Abigail. Below is a list of Joan Druett’s books in order of when they were first published:
Publication Order of Wiki Coffin Mysteries Books
| A Watery Grave | (2004) |    |
| Shark Island | (2005) | |
| Run Afoul | (2006) | |
| Deadly Shoals | (2007) | |
| The Beckoning Ice | (2012) | |
| Robber Crabs | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Abigail / A Love of Adventure | (1988) | |
| A Promise of Gold | (1990) | |
| Murder at the Brian Boru | (1992) | |
| The Money Ship | (2017) | |
| Finale | (2018) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Exotic Intruders | (1983) | |
| Fulbright in New Zealand | (1988) | |
| Petticoat Whalers | (1992) | |
| The Sailing Circle | (1995) | |
| Hen Frigates | (1998) | |
| She Captains | (2000) | |
| Rough Medicine | (2000) | |
| In the Wake of Madness | (2003) | |
| Island of the Lost | (2007) | |
| Tupaia | (2010) | |
| The Elephant Voyage | (2012) | |
| Eleanor's Odyssey | (2014) | |
| Lady Castaways | (2015) | |
| The Notorious Captain Hayes | (2016) | |
| The Discovery of Tahiti | (2019) | |
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Joan Druett Synopsis: The Money Ship by Joan Druett is a standalone novel. Oriental adventurer Captain Rochester spun an entrancing tale to Jerusha, seafaring daughter of Captain Michael Gardiner — a story of a money ship, hidden in the deep waters of the South China Sea, which was nothing less than the lost trove of the pirate Hochman. As Jerusha was to discover, the clues that pointed the way to fabled riches were indeed strange — a haunted islet on an estuary in Borneo, an obelisk with a carving of a rampant dragon, a legend of kings and native priests at war, and of magically triggered tempests that swept warriors upriver. And even if the clues were solved, the route to riches was tortuous, involving treachery, adultery, murder, labyrinthine Malayan politics… and, ultimately, Jerusha’s own arranged marriage.