![]() I do get around to things eventually, but eventually can clearly be a very long time. Finding out that it was 6 years ago was kind of a shocker. I’ve had this in my kindle app forever, to the point where I had to check to see exactly how I got it. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic. Peter’s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. But Peter’s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Midnight Riot (Peter Grant, #1) by Ben Aaronovitchįormats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook ![]()
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![]() Since the Fred mystery is on her own personal time, Stephanie is facing financial hardship and out of desperation she takes a job with Ranger's security company to make ends meet. While Stephanie is starting to look into Fred's activities, Bunchy shows up, mysteriously demanding that Stephanie find Fred for him. He was on his way to bring a copy of that to RCG when he disappeared. RCG (Ruben, Grizolli, and Cotell) had refused to refund him, because his payment wasn't in the system - they demanded to see his cancelled check. Mabel tells Stephanie that Fred had been furiously pursuing RCG Waste Haulers to get his $2 back because they skipped picking up garbage at his house one time. ![]() Stephanie sees enough to identify the body as a woman's, and gives duplicates of them to her on-again/off-again boyfriend, Detective Joe Morelli, who passes them on to the sergeant in charge of the case. She insists the photos are recent, and very unusual for Fred. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mabel gives Stephanie some photos she found in Fred's desk of half-opened garbage bags, containing dismembered human body parts. The only Failure-to-Appear (F.T.A.) Vinnie has for Stephanie is so minor league (Briggs), that she focuses her attention on the mysterious disappearance of her Uncle Fred instead. High Five is the fifth novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. ![]() ![]() ![]() The nanoparticle of interest in this series is in the form of a mind enhancing nano-drug known as Nexus. His series Nexus is a futuristic techno-thriller and focuses on the use of nanotechnology (see technical word in review) and its possible impact on humanity. Naam has an impressive resume which includes spending over a decade at Microsoft working on Outlook, Explorer, and Bing, creating a start up company known as Apex Nanotechnologies, and is now an award winning novelist of both fiction and non-fiction works. This is a quote taken from an interview with Ramez Naam discussing his latest novel Crux on the blog TerribleMinds and I think it nicely summarizes what to expect from this series which means a whole lot of fun. Chinese clones, Buddhist monks, uploaded posthumans, and explosions, oh my.”- Ramez Naam Thriller Sub-genre: Spy, Conspiracy and Techno-thrillerįuture of the series: Naam wrote the Nexus series as a trilogy with the last book in the series released on 5/5/15 entitled Apex. ![]() ![]() B.A., Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ![]() |