Something strange is happening on Battleship Island!

Eleven-year-old Jeff Douglas, along with his best friends Dan and Mike Wintzell, plan to start a detectives club and solve mysterious cases. As Jeff lies in his bed one night, looking out across the stormy bay at Battleship Island, he sees two men on the island acting suspiciously. Convinced something weird is going on, he decides that he and his pals have their first case to solve.

In the midst of making plans to explore the island, Jeff and his pals face the arrival of an annoying cousin, Stanley, who’s coming to spend six weeks at Jeff’s house. To keep Stanley out of their club, he and his friends devise a scary initiation test in an old, abandoned house.

Jeff and his pals get more than they bargain for when they explore Battleship Island and discover a secret room full of valuables, battle thieves, and survive several narrow escapes. In their struggle to solve the mystery of the island, they learn valuable lessons in courage, friendship and determination, along with an understanding of the tragedies of Civil War life along the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay.

Jerrye Sumrall lives on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay with her husband and sixteen-year-old cat, Bumper. Formerly an elementary school teacher and counselor, she is now a full-time writer, homemaker and office manager for her husband’s business. She is a member of The International Reading Association and The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Intruders on Battleship Island is the first book in an upcoming series, The Bayshore Mysteries.

Jerrye says she never thought about writing mysteries as a child but knew she had a driving spirit of adventure and a fascination with the unknown. Whether it was watching horror flicks on television, reading Nancy Drew books or exploring her surroundings, the quest to solve a mystery was always there.

Eleven-year-old Jeff Douglas walked along the sandy beach of Mullet Point and struggled to get his mind off bad grades, disappointed looks from Mom and Dad and the impending arrival of his annoying, younger cousin, Stanley.  At least he had Dan and Mike, he told himself as he kicked the sand with his foot.

Dan, his best friend, understood when Jeff almost failed the fifth grade. And Mike, Dan’s thirteen-year-old brother, had been there for Jeff too.

They wouldn’t fuss at him about almost failing or worry him to death like Stanley. And after he told ‘em something strange was happening on Battleship Island, they’d flip.

Jeff remembered the night before when he peered out his window, and looked across the bay. At first, strange lights flickered on the island. Then they were gone. Two men carrying flashlights appeared, then they disappeared when a Coast Guard patrol boat came near. What were they doing? Jeff wondered. And why did they speed away in their boat in such a hurry? He knew he had to find out.