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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Stonebridge by Linda Griffin

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

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After the death of her mother, Rynna Dalton comes to live with her imperious great-grandmother and her bookish, disabled cousin Ted at Stonebridge Manor. Almost immediately she is aware of a mysterious presence, which she believes is the spirit of her mother’s murdered cousin, Rosalind.

Rynna is charmed by Rosalind’s lawyer son Jason Wyatt, who courts her, and she agrees to marry him. Meanwhile, Ted and Rynna become good friends. But Stonebridge holds secrets that will profoundly affect her future. Why is Ted so opposed to the match? Why does Rosalind seem to warn Rynna against it? And how far will Jason go to possess Stonebridge-and the woman he professes to love?

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Crushing by TR Simmons

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

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Atarah is a high school tomboy and a stellar athlete, but of below average height and beauty.
This is a problem when everyone’s physical attributes and popularity are ranked by an AI computer called Big Social.

Atarah has five days before the Crush-it dance to find her secret admirer and become popular or she will have little chance of acceptance to a top university and their romantic reality shows.

A cryptic message warns Atarah that Big Social’s selfish protocols for human happiness are killing Earth. A plan to subvert the AI will require Atarah to find true love on the night of the dance.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Breathless by Roz Lee

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

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With development encroaching on his family’s vineyard, Wade Nightingale has his eye on the property next door. To get it, he’ll have to go through Serenity Granger, the reckless girl he had a crush on all through high school. She’s a grown woman now and determined to save her family legacy from foreclosure. It’s easy to admire her tenacity but impossible to keep his hands off her.

When Serenity Granger was ten years old, Wade Nightingale didn’t know she existed unless she was getting into trouble at his family’s winery, which she’d done more often than she wanted to recall, but now he’s paying attention. When things heat up between them, she has to wonder—could he be the answer to all her grown-up fantasies? Or is he a snake in the vineyard, after the only thing that matters to him—her land?

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: In Dog We Trust by Neil S. Plakcy

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

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When hacker & ex-con Steve adopts a golden retriever named Rochester, he falls in love with the charming pup with a nose for murder.

Together, they dig up clues to find the killer of Rochester’s former mom. Steve must tread carefully while following a trail of evidence. Can man and dog crack the case before the killer strikes again?

1st in series.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Tangerine Marmalade Murder by Meg Benjamin

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

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When a stranger is murdered near Roxy Constantine’s farm, she’s sure it has nothing to do with her. But the investigation turns up surprising links to Roxy’s past.

As if that weren’t enough, Roxy’s quarreling with her Significant Other, Nate Robicheaux, and facing a possible break-up. Just when the stress begins to ease, the murderer strikes again, sending Nate to the hospital.

Now Roxy needs to figure out the link between the Constantine Farm and a blackmailer before she becomes the killer’s next target.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: For the Love of His Life by Fiona McGier

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

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When a famous action star needs to clean-up for a major role that even he doubts he can deliver, the director sends him up to a resort owned by his grandmother in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of upper Minnesota, to learn to commune with nature.

His guide is Veronica, the director’s cousin, a tall, athletic woman who has the relaxed, sensible nature of someone who knows herself well. Raul’s initial clumsy attempt to seduce her makes her laugh…so he calls her fat.

Is there any hope that their relationship will progress beyond its rocky start? Will the local woman he grows to love believe someone who “lies for a living”? And can Raul overcome his partying nature to discover who he really is, and what he wants to have in his life?

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Water Dreams, Love’s Siren Song Book 1 by Katherine Eddinger Smits

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

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Water Dreams is an award-winning finalist in the Fiction/Romance category of the Best Book Awards.

She’s human. He’s Nerei. What happens when they fall in love against his species’ laws?

In the small Florida town of Tarpon Springs, Nik Aronopulos avoids water like the plague. She never goes to the beach and shuns restaurants with views of the Gulf of Mexico. So, when a merman shows up at her doorstep, insisting they need to study her, she’s stunned. There’s nothing special about her…
…or so she thinks.

Bas is an arrogant, dark-haired merman tasked with obtaining Nik’s cooperation at all costs, even if means being untruthful about the extent of the ‘study’ they need to conduct on her. But he’s willing to do and say whatever he must. She’s the Nerei’s only hope at overcoming their greatest weakness. Although they can shapeshift to look like humans and have advantages over land dwellers, their dependence on water keeps them from freedom. There’s just one problem – the girl he’s meant to capture under false pretenses is hooking his heart.

When Bas is shot by a bullet meant for Nik, she must face her greatest fear to help him – the ocean. Her decision plunges her into a desperate journey where her desire for self-preservation, is weighed against her growing feelings for this merman who had once meant her harm…

…and what this might mean for all of them.

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A Blind Eye by Marion Todd

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment


A Blind Eye by Marion Todd
Publisher: Canelo Crime
Genre: Contemporary, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
Rating: 3 stars
Reviewed by Fern

Can DI Clare Mackay unravel a dead man’s secrets?
Harry Richards, a local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit.

DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was not the upstanding man he seemed to be. Finding the killer should be easy.

Then the wife of one of Harry’s colleagues is discovered dead in her car, and Clare realises there is something more sinister at play…

Can she find out who’s behind the murders before they turn their attention to her?

DI Clare Mackay is called to investigate the seemingly abandoned car of a mission local lawyer who had been reported missing the previous day. When the man is found inside the car with his throat slit, Clare knows this is far more than a missing local lawyer and immediately she and her team begin to search for the truth. When a second, connected, body is found under very similar circumstances Clare knows the treachery extends far beyond just this one man and his questionable actions.

I have been enjoying this Scottish mystery series – delightfully branded as Tartan Noir – and this book was an excellent addition. Similar to British police procedurals this book focuses heavily on the police and their unraveling the truth. Readers who prefer a more action orientated, American or spy syle of novel might find the pace moves a little slowly for them, but personally I really enjoy the slower piecing together of the puzzle as it really lets me follow along and have a good crack at guessing what’s really going on for myself.

There is a strongly written cast of important secondary characters and while there’s quite a history and team network between them, I do feel readers should be able to pick this book up by itself and not need any of the previous installments to fully enjoy this story.

I also enjoyed how there were clearly a few moving parts to this plot, and while they did interweave together very nicely it didn’t feel pay or overly serendipitous, it came across to me as a well plotted and interesting mystery that had a number of different areas overlapping nicely to form a larger picture.

I found this to be an enjoyable and realistic police procedural mystery with a bunch of great characters. I’ve enjoyed this series and am eager to read the next book.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: Heart and Soul, Baby by Megan Slayer

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

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Two hearts, one child and the chance to make everything right.

Jamie Starkey has started to wonder about having kids. He thought he had his life sorted out—the job, the life and the house—but he doesn’t have it all. And there’s one man he never forgot. Haddie Clay. Jamie’s long had his heart set on him, except Haddie isn’t interested in him—until now.

Haddie Clay has always known Jamie was the father of his kid. Haddie’s raised his nephew, Chris, for the last ten years, but it’s time Chris knew the truth, that Haddie is Chris’ uncle and Jamie is his biological father. He’s also never forgotten the attraction to Jamie.

Now that they’ve got to work together to raise Chris, they’re going to have to figure out if they want to give in to the desire between them…and be a real family.

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LASR Anniversary Scavenger Hunt: The Witch of the Breton Woods by Jennifer Ivy Walker

August 23, 2024 By 1 Comment

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Traumatized by horrors witnessed during the Nazi invasion of France, a young woman retreats to the dense Breton woods where she becomes a member of the clandestine French Resistance. When she finds a critically injured American paratrooper whose plane was shot down, she shelters the wounded soldier in her secluded cottage, determined to heal him despite the enormous risk.

Ostracized by villagers who have labeled her a witch, she is betrayed by an informant who reports to the Butcher—the monstrous leader of the local paramilitary organization that collaborates with the Germans. As the enemy closes in, she must elude the Gestapo while helping the Resistance reunite the American with his regiment and join the Allied Forces in the Battle of Brittany.

Can true love triumph against all odds under the oppressive Third Reich?

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