Murder Under A Mystic Moon (Chintz 'n China Mystery Series)

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Summary: In My Own Backyard
Review: I was so excited to be waiting for the mail delivery of this new installment of Ms Galenorn's Chinz and China series. How would this series progress...what characters would I get to know better; knowing already and feeling a part of the trio of women friends, yet wanting to evolve with the town into personal knowledge of more quirky folks. YES!! It came to pass, and so very entertainingly! Emerald and her psychic gifts were waiting, her children growing older and clearer in my mind as pages were turned. Her Native friend and partner Murray opening herself to her heritage from book to book slowly, as the blooming of a flower. The little old neighbors, the annoying newswoman,others who came into view and most of all, Jimbo. Ah, it felt like being home again! But nothing was more awe-inspiring than the insight into a most primal creature. Again, Yasmine has taken us deeper than the heart, if that can be done. Brava!!!

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Summary: refreshingly innovative paranormal mystery
Review: Emerald O'Brien didn't know when she moved from Seattle to Chiqetaw that the town rests on a psychic power field and since Emerald has a strong psychic sense she is open to all the paranormal activity that surrounds the town. When her friend Jimbo O'Brien asks Emerald to look for his biker friend Scar who disappeared without a trace, she agrees to help him though there are many stories about the Klakatat monster(similar to Bigfoot) who appears from time to time in the Klickavail woods where he was last seen.

Emerald, her best friend the medium Murray and Jimbo enter the woods; the psychic uses her sixth sense to locate Scar who was murdered. The coroner rules he was killed by a cougar but Emerald and Murray sense it was a human who murdered him even though there are many elementals in the area who could have been responsible for the deed. When another biker is killed in the same place, Gordon, another psychic, is arrested but Emerald's worst enemy asks for her help in proving her cousin's innocence. Since Emerald believe George not guilty, she sets out to prove that the police arrested the wrong man and she won' let the Klakatat monster or the elementals stop her.

MURDER UNDER a Mystic MOON is a refreshingly innovative paranormal mystery that will appeal to a wide range of mystery aficionados. The heroine is very frightened of what she sees and knows in the etheral world but she still uses her psychic powers to go the extra mile to see that justice prevails even if it means putting her own life in danger. Yasmine Galenorn is an author to keep an eye out as she is heading towards superstardom.

Harriet Klausner


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Summary: Another Winner
Review: I put fives stars only because there's not a way to do 100 stars! Once again Yasmine Galenorn has kept me under her spell for hours on end I simply could NOT put this book down. It was SO good! This third book of the series is the best yet, in my opinion. But I do hope this is not the last we hear of Emerald O'Brien et al. I've grown so very fond of them!

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Summary: A rising star
Review: This is the third in the Chintz'n'China mysteries, and the best yet. Yasmine Galenorn has tapped a whole new vein of paranormal mysteries with this series, and she writes at a cracking pace. Her characters are fully human - at least, those on this dimension are fully human - and engaging, and her settings are beautifully realised. Her spooks are satisfyingly spooky, and she keeps the tension mounting all the way through. I look forward to the next volume in this series.