The following is a guest post by Ben Adams, author of The Enigmatologist. John Abernathy is a disillusioned twenty-something. His job as a private investigator is unfulfilling. And he can’t find work in his chosen field, Enigmatology, the study and design of puzzles. He is about to quit his job when he gets a call from the National Enquirer. Someone sent them a photo of a man who’s supposed to have…
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ANZAC and Opals
The following is a guest post by Michelee Morgan Cabot, author of Fly Over Down Under. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. On the wide South Australian desert horizon, flat and vague, slowly appeared low undulating mounds. Nothing spectacular – but the nearer we got, some appeared strangely, smoothly, cone-shaped. Mysterious piles like giant anthills – but not. As…
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
The Scorch Trials starts a few hours after the end of The Maze Runner. Thomas and the other survivors of the Maze are resting from the ordeal they just went through. The next morning though, it becomes clear that they are not safe and that their problems are far from over. Teresa is missing, and a new boy, Aris, has taken her place. Then the Gladers are told that they…
From Venetian canals to Arizona desert, locales play critical role in mysteries
The following is a guest post by Mark Bacon, author of Death in Nostalgia City. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple belongs in an English drawing room in St. Mary Mead or perhaps somewhere in Cornwall. Author Raymond Chandler often stuck Philip Marlow in some dark alley in LA. Robert B. Parker’s Spenser inhabited…