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Craig A. Hart

Autor de Serenity

27+ Obras 185 Miembros 6 Reseñas

Series

Obras de Craig A. Hart

Serenity (2016) 56 copias
Serenity Stalked (2017) 12 copias
Serenity Avenged (2017) 10 copias
Serenity Submerged (2017) 10 copias
Becoming Moon (2015) 6 copias
Night at Key West (2018) 5 copias
Assignment: Athens (2017) 5 copias
Serenity Engulfed (2018) 3 copias

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An obviously well-researched book, this story is set in 1.937 and it has a feel of noir to it, with dashes of humour and a fine plot. Hemingway as an unexpected partner for P.I. Simon Wolfe is a delightful bonus.

This is on the short side, but it's truly entertaining and the mix of reality and fiction works very, very well.

A must-read for lovers of a good mystery.
 
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Claudia_M | Oct 27, 2018 |
This novella and first in the series was quite interesting in characters, being short it didn't quite tell the whole story. I did enjoy it, though and would happily read another SpyCo book. Two different factions, SpyCo and Scorpion, appear to have a third unknown faction in their search for the central snatch back of a very important briefcase. Or is it really that special? Spies, heroes, partners, and other criminals all after the same briefcase, what do they have in common? Thrills, chills, murderers, terrorists, humor and hidden perils, I really enjoyed this book, Craig A. Hart really knows how to deliver.… (más)
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readerbynight | Apr 4, 2018 |
This great thriller grabbed me from the first page and didn't let go.

It starts with the 60-year-old former boxer, Alexander Shelby, finding a woman lying in the snow on his property. She died before she could tell anyone what happened but since she was considered "mental" the police wouldn't have questioned her anyway. It looked like she got lost and froze to death. But her brother, Harlan Ellis, didn't think so. He hired Shelby to find out what really happened, paying him $10,000.

Everyone feared the Ellis family, staying away from them because they took the law into their own hands. They were the biggest meth dealers in the area, so they had a lot of enemies and a lot to protect. The new sheriff is determined to stop drug trafficking, so the Ellis family's life is going to change. Add to that another drug dealer moving in and nobody's life is safe.

When Shelby gets shot at, and others die he knows there's more to Jenny's death than they first thought.

This fantastic story is full of action and had me surprised at the end when I learned who killed who. I love that in a story. I liked that Shelby was a more mature man than most you see in stories today. He struggled with getting older, but he was in excellent shape because of his previous boxing career. The one thing I wasn't crazy about was that his girlfriend was 30 years younger than him. I'm sure that is every man's dream but the pressure for him to perform had to have been enormous.

I did get this book from Craig Hart but I'm reviewing it on my own as I do with everything I read. Not because I was asked to.

The plot, characters, and dialogue are terrific. I recommend Serenity to thriller fans.
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JoAB | 2 reseñas más. | Jan 10, 2017 |
Shelby Alexander is feeling his age. His adult daughter treats him like a frail old man and it takes him a lot longer to recover from a hangover. But, with a lover half his age and taste for dangerous adventure, he's not going to let his advanced years slow him down. Much.

I received an ARC of this book from the author/publisher. All opinions are my own.

Now that I'm slightly (just slightly!!) closer to sixty than twenty, I'm finding it a tad more difficult to find protagonists who are close to my age, especially in the genres I like to read—barring all the ancient immortals, of course. I was intrigued by the description of this thriller, with a protagonist described as "aging" and "retired."

The main plot of this book centers around the meth industry in the small town of Serenity. Shelby is asked to investigate the death of a girl by her brother, who just happens to run the family meth business. What he finds during the course of that investigation is the center of the book.

But I found some of the other parts of the story even more interesting. Shelby has always been a physical guy, being an ex-boxer and a "fixer." He's not yet old enough to have lost all of his physical abilities, but he can tell he's past his prime. His adult daughter, from whom he was formerly estranged, is acting as though he is sick and frail, which just reminds him of his advancing years. His relationship with his lover, who is his daughter's age, makes him feel both young and old at the same time. And the old friend who comes to town to help him get into and out of mischief does the same.

Shelby is on the threshold of a new stage in life, and not the one that many of us aspire to. That time of transition is difficult at best. I found the exploration of it in this novel particularly interesting. The market is flooded with "coming of age" stories right now, but rarely in genre fiction do I see stories that address the later stages in life.
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InvestedIvana | 2 reseñas más. | Dec 20, 2016 |

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Obras
27
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Miembros
185
Popularidad
#117,260
Valoración
3.8
Reseñas
6
ISBNs
22
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