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,.

Dark Witch by Nora roberts(The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy book 1)

Dark Witch bye Nora Roberts(The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy book 1) Nora returns to Ireland to find her magic again with this mystical thriller,i have loved Nora and hated Nora that is no secret some of her books express the ingenues i know she is some of her books are just a waste of time.Although she is the top female author of all time and her books are amazing well written well researched sometimes she blends her characters together and over develops the beauty of Ireland countryside like in this book ,this is still a good read would like to seen little more romance and character development but nice story line a combination of her other trilogies and a the t v show about three witch sisters who had power of three.Her love is Ireland as you can read and tell from her perfect description of the Irish countryside,she should of loved her characters a little more and given them a little more depth but i think one of the books in this series will be a monster Nora book as she again is writing about Ireland and magic her two loves, not her best book but is well worth reading. With the aid of her grandmother, Iona Sheehan arrives in County Mayo aim on obtaining more about her family’s background and history of magic. She has more than her share of the luck of the Irish when she complies with her cousins Branna and Connor O’Dwyer on her first day there. Not only do they encourage Iona into the family fold, they also don’t think she’s insane when she explains to them that she’s had dreams about an evil sorcerer named Cabhan. More than 800 years previously, their ancestress, Sorcha, the primary Dark Witch, turned away Cabhan’s plan to steal her powers, and he has been planning his revenge ever since. After moving in with Branna and Connor and taking a job working for moody but exceptionally sexy stable owner, Boyle McGrath, Iona begins placing down roots in Ireland. But her newly found contentment may be shortlived unless she and her cousins can find a way to take advantage of their powers and defeat Cabhan. Bestsellerextraordinaire Roberts works her own brand of literary magic as she begins a new trilogy showcasing the cousins O’Dwyer. John Charles

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Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King (Author) review [King's long-awaited 36-years-later sequel to 1977's THE SHINING.]

Stephen King comes back to the character and location of one of his most wellknown
works of
fiction ever, The Shining, in this instantaneously riveting story about the now middleaged
Dan
Torrance and the very unique twelveyearold
girl he must save from a tribe of murderous
paranormal s. As i have always said about every other King book is worth reading this King's
longawaited
36yearslater
sequel to 1977's THE SHINING this one of the ones you want to
read.
This novel didn't replicate the level of horror as The Shining. However, I was not very old when I
read the initial novel and the miraculous terror of The shining can't be entirely recaptured. This
book was as fantastic a sequel as could ever have been anticipated to follow up a story that
holds that significant of a position in our combined pasts.
Tend not to read this book if all that's necessary for you is to return to The Overlook Hotel and
insane Jack Torrence. Neither of them are revived except as a summary of Danny Torrence's
historical past. The Overlook Hotel burned up. That's how Jack Torrence, died when he failed
save the Overlook by not removing the defective boiler.. There are reflects from the past,
rehashes, but this isn't as much of a sequel as it is a new story starring old characters.
King quickly updates us on what transpired to little Danny and his mother Wendy, as well as the
old cook who shared the shine with Danny. That update was pretty damn scary in it's own. I
won't tell you, but some revisitations
were made.
In Danny's adult years the story becomes less insanely crazy/scary than the first book.
Nevertheless, King's storytelling and ability to scare are still incredibly strong. This is a different
tale entirely than The Shining, with only a little overlap. Don't expect to encounter that same level
of terror and you won't be let down.
There was also a very human side of this story. Death and dying, the fight for sobriety, King dealt
with a lot of his personal demons I believe. He is 65 years old now, a time when many individuals
reminisce.
Read it you will enjoy the story it is number 8 on Amazon best seller list
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Inferno by Dan Brown,mixed reviews, more controversy is it good or bad?

.Inferno by Dan Brown,mixed reviews, more controversy is it good or bad?
In his blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan
Brown masterfully merged history, art, codes, and symbols. In this captivating new
thriller, Brown comes back to his element but this is not the Da Vinci Code or Angels
and Demonds but is better than the Lost Symbol.This book has very mixed reviews
people love it or hate it and i am no different i loved parts of it hated other parts,at times
it was like a boring history class at times your in the middle of a thriller. Da Vinci Code
was better but this is a good book if you skim through the 2 chapters of history
lessons.Read it
Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in Florence forgetting how he arrived there or why he is
there. Final thing he remembers, he was strolling to a lecture where he instructs symbology at
Harvard University in Boston.
He's told he was been shot, and his assailant had another attempt on his life; murdering one of
the doctors who was treating him. Sienna Brooks, a young female doctor saves him and they
must soon avert both the US government and a ominous looking set of agents guided by agent
Cristoph Brüler.
Langdon and Brooks evade all many people to reveal that there is a virus that is going to be
launched by the famous biochemist billionaire, Bertrand Zobrist. Zobrist is a hard core believer of
Malthusian catastrophe "
The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to
produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the
human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the
precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But
should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague
advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success
be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels
the population with the food of the world." To avoid this "Inferno"Zobrist has
determined to take issues in his hand and lessen the world's population.
Inside Dante's Inferno lies clues that will direct Langdon, Dr. Brooks, the Consortium a
powerful
firm that is for hire, and Dr. Elizabeth Sinskey the
leader the World Health Organization to
the
location where the virus is being launched. The audience is exposed to quite precise information
of Florence, Venice, and Istanbul as the plot expands, twists, and is finally exposed to the tune of
Liszt' Dante symphony at the Istanbul ancient cisterns.
Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in Florence forgetting how he arrived there or why he is
there. Final thing he remembers, he was strolling to a lecture where he instructs symbology at
Harvard University in Boston.
He's told he was been shot, and his assailant had another attempt on his life; murdering one of
the doctors who was treating him. Sienna Brooks, a young female doctor saves him and they
must soon avert both the US government and a ominous looking set of agents guided by agent
Cristoph Brüler.
Langdon and Brooks evade all many people to reveal that there is a virus that is going to be
launched by the famous biochemist billionaire, Bertrand Zobrist. Zobrist is a hard core believer of
Malthusian catastrophe "
The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to
produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the
human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the
precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But
should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague
advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success
be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels
the population with the food of the world." To avoid this "Inferno"Zobrist has
determined to take issues in his hand and lessen the world's population.
Inside Dante's Inferno lies clues that will direct Langdon, Dr. Brooks, the Consortium a
powerful
firm that is for hire, and Dr. Elizabeth Sinskey the
leader the World Health Organization to
the
location where the virus is being launched. The audience is exposed to quite precise information
of Florence, Venice, and Istanbul as the plot expands, twists, and is finally exposed to the tune of
Liszt' Dante symphony at the Istanbul ancient cisterns.
The novel is a well researched story. The twists and spins are remarkable; it's a page turner.
Couldn't get my head out of it, read it in 4 days. I found myself researching for maps of Florence,
Venice, and Istanbul to follow Langdon's quest. for once you open its pages, you'll be captured in
this intriguing tale, and you will also be reexamining
what you thought of Dante's work

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Alex cross books in order for Nook, Kindle or paperbeck up dated 1/7/2015

Along Came a Spider
Daily life adjustments for Deputy Chief of Detectives Alex Cross when he is enticed into a high-profile case. Two nine-year-old children are kidnapped by a teacher, Gary Soneji, from the exclusive Washington Day School. Maggie Rose Dunne is the child of an actress, and Michael "Shrimpie" Goldberg is the son of the Secretary of Treasury. A ransom of $10 million is commanded.

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Kiss the Girls
Alex Cross meets wits with Casanova and The Gentlemen Caller. This time it is personalized. Naomi Cross, twenty-two-year-old daughter of Cross's deceased brother Aaron, is reported missing. She is a law student at Duke University. Cross goes to North Carolina, dreading the worst.

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Jack & Jill
A game of Life and Death. Sam Harrison (Jack) and Sara Rosen (Jill) pleasure in their board game that has pictures of famous people; a simple roll of the dice ascertains their fate.
When sixty-four-year-old Senator Daniel Fitzpatrick is found slain, the FBI makes a official request for Cross. The FBI is stymied. The code name for President Thomas Byrnes is Jack. The First Lady's is Jill.

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Cat & Mouse
A murder named Mr. Smith commences his murder spree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then commences terrorizing Europe. Bodies are found "gutted." At the same time Gary Soneji taunts Cross with murders in train stations.

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Pop Goes the Weasel
Geoffrey Shafer, the Weasel, works in Intelligence in the British Embassy in D.C. He and three garbled friends play a Game of Death that consists of innocent women around the planet.

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Roses Are Red
Meet The Mastermind. He's the man guiding bank robberies and the homicide of bank employees wholly committed in Virginia and Maryland. Then a tour bus is hijacked in D.C. and a $30 million ransom commanded. Cross and an FBI team have less than two hours to produce.

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Violets Are Blue
A string of grotesque murders points to a vampire subculture in the United States. Cross travels to San Francisco to meet up with with Inspector Jamilla Hughes, Homicide. They amass a list of unsolved vampire murders going back at least eleven years.

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Four Blind Mice
The Blue lady Murders take place at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Army wives are murdered and their bodies painted blue. John Sampson asks Cross to speak to his friend and mentor, Sergeant Ellis Cooper, who has been convicted of the killings but swears he is innocent..

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The Big Bad Wolf
Zamochit signifies "the breaking of bones." It is part of a murder ritual utilized by members of the Red Mafiya. The "impossible" homicide of an Italian godfather in the high-security, supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, is just the starting point.

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London Bridges
Geoffrey Shafer, the Weasel, is located and kidnapped from Salvador, Brazil. The infamous Wolf then sends him on a assignment. His first job is to completely wipe out an American town-Sunrise Valley, Nevada. And once again, that is just the starting point.

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Mary, Mary
Hollywood's most prominent stars are being slain one by one. The killer is known only as Mary Smith. Is Mary really a woman? Or just someone playing the part? With the LAPD and FBI confused, it's up to Alex Cross to uncover the truth

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Alex Cross (also published as Cross)
Among the bad guys Alex Cross has confronted—Gary Soneji, Casanova, The Mastermind, The Wolf—one psychopath tops them all. Alex knows him as his wife's killer. Alex may have a opportunity to catch his wife's assassin after all these years. Is this a chance for justice at long last? Or the concluding scene in his own deadly obsession?

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Double Cross
Alex Cross rejoins the DC Police Force to deal with two of the most diabolical murderers he's ever came across, a psychotic monster who craves an audience and a murdering mastermind who works alone. Both want Alex dead, and they'll to do anything to get what they want, even if it means plotting together...

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Cross Country
In more than a decade of police work, it is the most severe murder scene Alex Cross has ever witnessed. A family has been butchered in their home. And more mysterious deaths follow. One after the other. Each more grotesque than the last. The only lead is an incredibly elusive trail left by a diabolical African warlord know only as The Tiger. It leads Alex Cross into the dark underbelly of Washington DC and beyond, into a true heart of darkness in Africa.

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I, Alex Cross
Detective Alex Cross is yanked out of a family party and given the awful news that a favorite relative has been found brutally slain. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was involved in one of Washington's craziest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim.

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Cross Fire
Detective Alex Cross and Bree's marriage plans are put on pause when Alex is called to the scene of the flawlessly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most tainted: a dirty congressmen and an deceptive lobbyist. Next, the evasive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories—is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?

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Kill Alex Cross
The President's son and daughter are kidnapped, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But somebody very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.

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Merry Christmas, Alex Cross


It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been termed to catch an individual who's stealing from his church's poor box. That quest behind him, Alex returns home to rejoice with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree adorning is barely started before his phone rings again—a horrifying hostage situation is quickly spinning out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativeness, and daring to save another family. Alex risks everything—and he may not make it back alive on this most hallowed of family days. Alex Cross is a hero for our time, and never more so than in this story of family, action, and the deepest moral choices. MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS will be a holiday classic for years to come.

Alex Cross, Run
Detective Alex Cross arrests distinguished plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, with his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recongise him—by giving himself a new face.

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Cross My Heart

Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart—nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most unsettling and unexpected novel of James Patterson's career.

When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to protect them. If he does anything to protect them, they will die.

CROSS MY HEART is the most powerful Alex Cross novel ever, propelled by the ever-ingenious mind of James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling writer.

Hope to Die/ Alex Cross super thriller by James Patterson

Detective Alex Cross is getting stalked by a psychotic genius, compelled to engage in the deadliest game of his career. Cross's household his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his treasured children have been kidnapped. Frightened and anxious, Cross must give this mad man what he wishes if he has any possibility of salvaging the most crucial people in his life. The limits have never been greater: What will Cross give up to save the ones he loves?

Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel

Getting a new release Jack Reacher book in the mailbox is like being handed an ice cream cone on a blistering summer day. It's simply not there for appreciating or slowly enjoy, you place right in and take pleasure in every lick. And like the cone, "Never Go Back" does not let you down.

On this occasion, Reacher journeys back to his previous MP unit to meet its new commander, primarily because he was captivated by the sound of her voice on the phone. Then, he discovers that she's been locked up, and he is being brought back on active duty so he can answer to a homicide charge and paternity suit. As always, practically nothing is quite as it appears to be, and Reacher has to peel back layer after layer to get to the truth of the matter.While remaining one step ahead of the law, drug dealers, and the Army.

I don't know if the Reacher sequence can get any better, but it definitely isn't getting any worse or showing any author weariness. The writing is sharp, the pacing brilliant, and the plot is pleasantly complicated and imaginative. You simply cannot put this book down, it's that powerful and addictive.

The one weakness is Child's lack of comprehension of the U.S. military. Reacher refers to an Army major as "miss", something no recent field grade officer would ever do except as a deliberately provocative insult. He has a base with three checkpoints at the entry and exit. I've never seen a base with more than one entry checkpoint, and only an exit checkpoint during exercises or times of heightened security. Checking everyone's ID and trunk three times on the way off-base is manpower strenuous and utterly unnecessary.

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Second Honeymoon /James Patterson/most surprising thriller

Via the previous years I have figured out to pick an choose which James Patterson's books to read, specifically since he commenced co-authoring..For the "Second Honeymoon" I would say he has an additional hit on his hands....This is such a rapidly paced, psychological/thriller you won't want to stop flipping the pages...The deep characterization, the partnering of returning suspended FBI Agent, John O'Hara and new Agent Sarah Brubaker was brillant...They each enhance each other's personality which adds an element of "humor" to the story..Which I think you needed with all the tension they are under trying to distinguish and catch two psychotic serial killers at the same time..It's is an action packed, fun whirlwind ride all the way to the shocking end..This is a stand alone novel you don't have to read the first to comprehend what's going on here...The plot streams seamlessly and all ties collectively in the end..

This is not just about the "Second Honeymoon" serial killer case it's even better...Now we have the "John O'Hara" serial killer on the loose..Well, Agent John O' Hara was just as shocked to see his name on the CNN News Channel when he turned it on..Pray that's not your name because the killer will not cease until he finds the right one..He is out to avenge his sister's death and just hearing that name triggers long dormant, painful memories..But there is a link between the two cases and that's when Agent Sarah Brubaker gets involved..Through her investigation, she digs through past FBI solved files and comes across the "HoneyMoon" serial killer case from yrs ago.Great read buy it now.

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