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Desperate Creed Another Winner from Alex Kava

Desperate Creed ( Book #5 Ryder Creed) by Alex Kava So today in addition to running this morning, I also finished the 40th book I’ve read this year. The book was Desperate Creed by Alex Kava. Desperate Creed is the fifth book in Kava’s Ryder Creed series. I became a fan of Alex Kava’s books after reading her debut novel A Perfect Evil in June of 2003. By September of 2003 I had read the first of Alex Kava’s book. All of those books featured FBI agent Maggie O’Dell. Since then I have read all but one of the twelve books that are included in the Maggie O’Dell series. In 2015 Kava introduced the character of Ryder Creed in the book Breaking Creed. Ryder is an ex-marine who now is a K9 search and rescue dog trainer and handler. Breaking Creed chronicles the first time Ryder and Maggie O’Dell work together. Desperate Creed is the 5th time the duo appear in novels together. About Despearte Creed In this installment Ryder and his dogs are working in Alabama helping search for bodies in the aftermath of a deadly tornado. Meanwhile a Frankie a life-long friend of Ryder’s partner Hannah witnesses, via a cell phone, the murder of a coworker. The coworker and his friend had hacked into the computers of a major US cereal manufacturer and discovered. Information that could threatened a major international deal for the company. As a favor to Hannah, Maggie agrees to meet Frankie at a…

Six Great Mystery Series and Their First Books!

Today, I received an email from Barnes & Noble and they are having a Nook Book Sale on the first book of a series. I checked out the first books Mystery series that were on sale, and here are six books that started some of my favorite mystery series! 1.The Blessing Way – Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee – Tony Hillerman – Tony Hillerman wrote 18 Navajo Mysteries featuring Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee and his daughter Anne Hillerman recently picked up the series and has written book 19!! I stopped reading the series after book 14, not because I didn’t like the series but because I just started to read too many other mystery series. I always enjoyed the character of Jim Chee, who tried to walk in two worlds the modern and his ancestral Navajo and as a police officer that wasn’t always easy!! It’s a great mystery series and The Blessing Way is a wonderful start to the series! 2.. The Surgeon – Rizzoli and Isles – Tess Gerritsen – This was a book that just blew m away when I read it. The suspense and the characters were both great. Using the Hoyt character for the TV show was a great way to start the series just like The Surgeon was a great way to start the literary series!! 3. Carved in Bone – Dr. Bill Brockton – Jefferson Bass “Fantastic forensic detail and an engaging hero … an authoritative, compelling new…

Amanda Kyle Williams – Stranger in the Room (Keye Street Series #2)

Ok so I did not really enjoy the first half of Amanda Kyle Williams The Stranger that You Seek, but the second half of the book was really good, and propelled me on to the second book in the Keye Street series Stranger in the Room. For me, there was no weak first half in this book, it grabbed me from the start and did not let go until the last page! Miki Ashton, Keye Street’s cousin returns home after a night on the town, puts the key in the front door of her house, before she can open the door, she hears footsteps in the supposedly empty house!! When she makes her way to the window in the front of the house, and peers in, she sees a slightly overweight man standing in the shadows, as he stands there he forms a gunwith his fingers and he pretends to shoot Miki!! So begins this great twisting mystery!! Who was this stranger in the room?? Why was he there?? Is he the source of the mysterious calls, and noises that plague Miki?? Meanwhile. Keye’s boyfriend Detective Aaron Rauser is investigating the murder of a young baseball player on the cusp of good things! Soon the mystery man and the boy are entwined in an ever-growing murder investigation and Keye is once again drawn into the hunt for a murderer. Can she and Rauser put the pieces of the puzzle together before more lives are lost? Soon Miki and Keye become the…

Where the Characters in My Favorite Mystery Series Live and Work!!

This year so far has been a slow year for reading. I have spent much more time over the last several months listening to music than reading. I think that I will make it a goal to read at least two books, that are part of a series that I read, per month for the rest of the year. Maybe one can be new one from a series that I am current with, and the other an older book in a series that I am trying t catch up on! One of the aspects of reading all the mystery series that I do are the places that I get to roam, if only through the pictures painted in my mind by the words of these great writers. The major series that I read along with the main character, the main setting for the series and the author of the series are listed on the table below this post. I cover both coast, the central part of the US and five countries!! So which one should I start with… oh no! looks like I left out Kathleen Mallory of New York created by author Carol O’Connell maybe that means I should start, or should I say resume that series. Double oh, no …. Greg Isles’ Penn Cage novels set in Mississippi…. and Greg has a new one out…. and I need to read The Devil’s Punchbowl … decisions, decisions!! Oh, well let’s go for a run and think about it!! Character…