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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Review: The Cardinal's Curse: The Turner and Mosley Files Book 2 by Lyndee Walker and Bruce Robert Coffin
I’m late with
this one thanks to the spate of new falls as well as the diagnosis last week of
my left ear infection of the drum and the ear canal. Who does that? This guy! I
had no idea one could get the ear canal itself infected. Wish the meds would
hurry up and do something. Anyway, this came out back over a month ago, so I am
very late with my spoiler free review.
Back in November
1537, Cardinal Olav Engelbrektsson had a gold crown encrusted with jewels and
other important treasures. He was the Archbishop of Nidaros and had ruled
Norway due to the lack of a king and the black death. He has been in exile and
hiding these past seven months as Christian III became king of Denmark and
claimed Norway as a dependency. Cardinal Engelbrektsson plans to seize power
again. The first part of that is for the crown and other treasures to be loaded
aboard the wagons so that he and his group can move out on their journey back
to power.
In the present
day as The Cardinal’s Curse begins, Avery Turner and Carter
Mosley are deep in the cold waters of Hudson Bay. She has a new dive computer, TreaureTech’s
DiveNav, that she designed and created, strapped to her wrist. They are diving
to find the wreck of the yacht, Moneymaker. The long missing yacht may
hold the body of Broadway showgirl, Melody Fisher, and the NYPD, and others
need it found. But, first, the new tech on her wrist needs to work and it
clearly has a glitch that is making things even more dangerous.
Those cold waters
are just a taste of what awaits them in the Antarctic. Dr. Noah Wyndham is
leading an expedition to find the legendary lost ship, Fortitude.
While the sunken ship is probably well preserved due to the incredibly cold
waters, those same cold waters make any dive to it very dangerous. That assumes
they can even get to it because of the depth of the wreck, the Antarctic environment,
and a lot of other factors.
The expedition
is already deep into Antarctica and has been hard at work for several months
with little to no success. The expedition is twofold--one is climate research
as they seek a way to artificially rebuild the Antarctic shelf ice as a way to
fight the well documented climate change problem. The secondary research
project and the one Dr. Wyndham wants Carter, Turner, Harrison, for is to help find
the Fortitude. Dr. Wyndham hopes that,
by finding the Fortitude, the massive media attention of their discovery,
will bring additional funding to continue their shelf ice research. Funds are
running out and winter is coming. They have only days left to find the
Fortitude before winter descends and they need help now.
Avery Carter and
Turner Mosely are enthusiastic about joining the expedition. Harrison has grave
reservations about all of it, but goes along with the others in the quest to
find the Fortitude. Much like an iceberg, what they know going in, is
just the tip of a huge and dangerous iceberg.
Book two of the of
the Turner and Mosely Files that began with The
General’s Gold is another fun filled action read. Along with plenty
of history and science, there is a lot of action at the ends of the earth where
survival can be measured in seconds.
The Cardinal’s
Curse
is another solidly good read and well worth your time. Like any good series,
this builds on the first book, so I recommend you read that one first before
embarking here. The third book in the series, The Pirate's Secret,
is currently scheduled to be released October 29th.
Amazon Associate
Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3LnV7Oy
Both the
publisher, Severn River Publishing, by way of NetGalley, as well as author
Bruce Robert Coffin supplied ARCs for my use. In neither case was there any
expectation of a review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Review: The General's Gold: The Turner and Mosley Files Book 1 by Lyndee Walker and Bruce Robert Coffin
It begins down
in the Florida Keys with Avery Turner. Young, recently rich thanks to the sale of her
app to a tech company, she is a bit bored with her life. She likes being
independently wealthy as well as her new home on an island in the Keys. But, something
is missing. She is a bit bored.
She has recently
taken up scuba diving and Carter Mosley is teaching her how to go about things safely.
His passion is diving to shipwrecks, mainly modern-day commercial vessels. That
has resulted in a growing social media platform. Like Avery, his efforts are
attracting attention from the wealthy in his industry, and he has opportunities
as well as obstacles to manage. He is also a bit of an adventurer and is one of
those folks who likes jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.
As part of her scuba
training, Carter takes her down to the first wreck he ever dived, and the one
that made him famous, Isabella’s Dream. The sunken freighter will be
good training dive for her and it was.
She had a blast,
but reality crashed in once they got back to the surface. A detective in Boston
calls with the news that Mark Hawkins, friend, business partner, and more, is
suddenly dead. Boston PD is treating it as a drug overdose.
She knows better
and is soon on her private plane, along with her assistant, Harrison, as she
wants to see the crime scene herself. Fortunately, Harrison worked with her mom
long ago on the job and can make calls to help smooth the way.
At same time,
Carter goes about his life in the Keys, aware that he is being watched. Who is watching
him and why are two questions he can not answer.
Before long,
both are involved in escalating situations. All events lead to a ship that went
down during the civil war. It may have been filled with a treasure that would
have financed the south after victory. Who knows what it could finance today?
What follows is
a read that moves up and down the east coast in a hunt for the lost ship and
its cargo. Multiple secondary story lines are also at work giving additional
character depth as well as obstacles. The result is a complicated fast-moving
adventure read that fully engages the reader. The General’s Gold
is a mighty good read and well worth your time.
Amazon Associate Purchase Link: https://amzn.to/3TZ9xtt
Both the publisher,
Severn River Publishing, by way of NetGalley, as well as author Bruce Robert Coffin supplied
ARCs for my use. In neither case was there any expectation of a review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2024
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