The Julie O'Hara Mystery Series,by Lee Hanson in order

Castle Cay (Julie O'Hara #1)
When her closest friend passes away in Key West, Julie O'Hara knows he never would have
committed suicide. On her behalf, there's only one issue: Was it an accident, or was Marc
Solomon slain?
A body language expert, Julie takes her knowledge along with her hunch and flies to Boston for
the memorial service, where she meets Marc's handsome and dangerous brother, Avram,
whose griefstricken
stance doesn't deceive her at all.
But the mystery is Castle Cay. Julie learns an astonishing fact from a well known Beacon Hill
attorney about a place she never wanted to think about again...the Solomons' private island in the
Abacos.
One step ahead of real danger, Julie enters Key west, only to find herself cornered by a frantic
killer, having pulled a string that unravels a deadly conspiracy...and on her own troubled past.
I liked this book, but it felt like there were some gaps that could have been filled.Little more
character development for one,the plot is amazing and the mystery is there nice first book well
worth the read.

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This is the book two in the Julie O'Hara series, coming after Castle Cay. And to say that I was
amazed is an exaggeration.
Julie O'Hara is a body language specialist; someone who has primarily worked with attorneys to
assistance in picking juries. Now Julie will be using her unique skills in clearing up what looks to
all to be a suicide. After all, she is the first one to have found the victim and has seen the scene a
little differently than the police did.
This book had me hooked right from the begining and the idea behind Julie and her profession is
a unique one since I've mainly only seen "body language experts" being used as secondary or
tertiary characters. This was plotted very firmly, with only just enough clues as was absolutely
essential. It took me by surprise when the true attacker was finally discovered. The characters
Julie and her boyfriend Joe, a private detective and her partner in this book, are appealing and
very likeable.
The only flaw in this novel was that the dialogue between some of the characters seemed a bit
stiff or boring.good read i like it.

Swan Song: The Julie O'Hara Mystery Series (book 2)

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Mystral Murder, Volume 3 The Julie O'Hara Mystery Series

With Mystral Murder, Lee Hanson has created the finest Julie O'Hara story to date. It is one of those books you will find hard to stop reading, because it is plotted so well and the characters are thoroughly gripping.

Chatting of the plot, I do not want to give too much away, but let us just say that the author has  written a story that will live long in the memory. The psychological centre of this fine book is Julie's wonderful relationship with Joe. The reader gets the opportunity of watching these superb characters face a number of challenges together.

This is by far best book of the series it is a easy read i enjoyed it,.

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

By 

A. R. Bovey

I sat down to write a review of this book, when i saw this ,i can not do it or say it any better than this, it hits the nail right on the head and gives the book all it deserves.This hunger games book,from the hunger games series, is the third of the hunger games trilogy,after defying all odds  Katniss Everdeen continues her adventures.This is a great series from Suzanne Collins.


This review is from: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3) (Hardcover)
This was a brilliant conclusion to the trilogy. I can only compare it to "Ender's Game" - and that is extremely high praise, indeed.

When I first closed the book last night, I felt shattered, empty, and drained.

And that was the point, I think. I'm glad I waited to review the book because I'm not sure what my review would have been.

For the first two books, I think most of us readers have all been laboring under the assumption that Katniss Everdeen would eventually choose one of the two terrific men in her life: Gale, her childhood companion or Peeta, the one who accompanied her to the Hunger Games twice. She'd pick one of them and live happily ever after with him, surrounded by friends and family. Somehow, along the way, Katniss would get rid of the awful President Snow and stop the evil Hunger Games. How one teenage girl would do all that, we weren't too sure, but we all had faith and hope that she would.

"Mockingjay" relentlessly strips aside those feelings of faith and hope - much as District 13 must have done to Katniss. Katniss realizes that she is just as much a pawn for District 13 as she ever was for the Colony and that evil can exist in places outside of the Colony.

And that's when the reader realizes that this will be a very different journey. And that maybe the first two books were a setup for a very different ride. That, at its heart, this wasn't a story about Katniss making her romantic decisions set against a backdrop of war.

This is a story of war. And what it means to be a volunteer and yet still be a pawn. We have an entirely volunteer military now that is spread entirely too thin for the tasks we ask of it. The burden we place upon it is great. And at the end of the day, when the personal war is over for each of them, each is left alone to pick up the pieces as best he/she can.

For some, like Peeta, it means hanging onto the back of a chair until the voices in his head stop and he's safe to be around again. Each copes in the best way he can. We ask - no, demand - incredible things of our men and women in arms, and then relegate them to the sidelines afterwards because we don't want to be reminded of the things they did in battle. What do you do with people who are trained to kill when they come back home? And what if there's no real home to come back to - if, heaven forbid, the war is fought in your own home? We need our soldiers when we need them, but they make us uncomfortable when the fighting stops.

All of that is bigger than a love story - than Peeta or Gale. And yet, Katniss' war does come to an end. And she does have to pick up the pieces of her life and figure out where to go at the end. So she does make a choice. But compared to the tragedy of everything that comes before it, it doesn't seem "enough". And I think that's the point. That once you've been to hell and lost so much, your life will never be the same. Katniss will never be the same. For a large part of this book, we see Katniss acting in a way that we can only see as being combat-stress or PTSD-related - running and hiding in closets. This isn't our Katniss, this isn't our warrior girl.

But this is what makes it so much more realistic, I think. Some may see this as a failing in plot - that Katniss is suddenly acting out of character. But as someone who has been around very strong soldiers returning home from deployments, this story, more than the other two, made Katniss come alive for me in a much more believable way.

I realize many out there will hate the epilogue and find it trite. At first, I did too. But in retrospect, it really was perfect. Katniss gave her life already - back when she volunteered for Prim in "The Hunger Games". It's just that she actually physically kept living.

The HBO miniseries, "Band of Brothers", has a quote that sums this up perfectly. When Captain Spiers says, "The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."

But how do you go from that, to living again in society? You really don't. So I'm not sure Katniss ever really did - live again. She just ... kept going. And there's not really much to celebrate in that. Seeing someone keep going, despite being asked - no, demanded - to do unconscionably horrifying things, and then being relegated to the fringes of society, and then to keep going - to pick up the pieces and keep on going, there is something fine and admirable and infinitely sad and pure and noble about that. But the fact is, it should never happen in the first place.

And that was the point, I think.
This is the last of the trilogy buy it read it it is wonderful.