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Lost Fleet By Chris Niles This is book #3 in the series. I read the prequel and didn't have books 1 or 2. It didn't seem to matter, I was able to understand the story and not get lost. This was an interesting story with a good plot about a possibility of a different history that has been white washed from our history books. Image that! Really? Lol! Like we didn't know they have done this before but this is really good and I think a lot of people believe the corrupt history the force down kids throats. How wonderful Christopher Columbus was and all that! Ugh! Anyway, I enjoyed the story with it's action, suspense, and interesting characters. My favorite character is the dog!

Kate Kingsbury & her retired police dog Whiskey chase a killer across the high-seas in this pulse-pounding addition to the bestselling Shark Key series.

When Kate Kingsbury and crew rush to help after a brutal hurricane widows a family friend, they stumble on an ancient mystery. Five indigenous idols are scattered throughout the Caribbean. Together, they hold the key to a fortune – and murder.

Hunting the idols thrusts Kate, Whiskey, and the Shark Key family into a race against time from the Dominican Republic to the Everglades. Because, unknown to Kate, a false shaman also seeks the idols.

With each idol he finds, he kills. So Kate and her friends must collect the remaining idols before another teen is slaughtered.

Kate can hold her own in a fight. But as the waters bleed, surfacing Kate’s darkest memories, the greatest obstacle may be the enemy inside.

An extraordinary prize lies hidden in the remote Florida Keys backcountry.

When Kate Kingsbury finds a map tucked in the pages of a rare Hemingway novel, she sets off to discover a little more about the islands around her new home.

But in an instant, her sunny adventure becomes a dangerous fight for her life.

Can Kate survive the threat lurking among the mangroves?

A shocking secret lies at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea.

When her journalism mentor is killed in a horrific plane crash, Kate Kingsbury travels to New York to lay him to rest. There, she discovers his quest to prove a Chinese fleet arrived in the Caribbean nearly a hundred years before the Europeans. As she follows his leads, she meets the charming Brian Yim, whose uncle – a powerful Chinese oil magnate – is searching for the fleet, too.
Is Brian seeking truth, or is he a mole for his uncle? And will Kate live long enough to find out?

I was pleasantly surprised by this one, which I had nabbed for a quarter from a retirement-home library sale shelf. The situation is pretty standard: visitor to a new place has a one-nighter with a mysterious woman, wakes up with a corpse, decides he's got to flee and investigate on his own rather than going to the cops. Sam Ridley is not a great character, but he uses some entertaining expressions in telling his story, and meets some engaging characters as he pursues the truth.½

The lives of various New Yorkers (including a serial killer, struggling writer, and beautiful pickpocket) intersect in this engrossing story. I loved the memorable characters and wonderfully dark humour.

One of my alternate selections in the TBR Challenge, another book I’d heard rave reviews about but had always managed to leave it on my bookshelf in favor of something else. Difficult to classify, this isn’t a true mystery since we always know ‘whodunit’ but is more of a dark comedy and somewhat of a social commentary too, poking fun at Americans and some of our obsessions. The main theme here is finding a place to live in New York City, which I think most of us know can be a real bugger. People would happily pay a couple thousand a month to live in a filthy closet if it’s in the right location! The book follows several people as they’re hunting for an apartment—a self-professed writer, though he’s never actually written anything except fortunes (and bad ones!) for Chinese fortune cookies—a young married couple just in town from Michigan, a young woman from London whose artist boyfriend boots her out when his wife comes home from France. We also follow one landlord who has an apartment to let. Quite an interesting twist that I can’t really say much about without spoiling it. Anyway, it was an interesting book although a bit dry in places and a bit repetitive sometimes too, though I did quite enjoy the author’s scathing social commentary about Americans in general and her dark humor was right up my alley. Overall an enjoyable read.½