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A bout research with medicinal plants. Much of it is old rfemedies, but with modern study where the aim was to find what worked or didn't work and why.For instance, why a thing has a reputation for sffectiveness, but testing was mixed. Such things as ferrotopsis, which is catalytic in action, is the difference in success and failure is some, as is piperine.There are suggested cures and treatments to investigate, and that are safe if minimal care is...
2) Pool Party
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A pool party. A man is murdered. There is an old gun in a chest. Investigation leads to murders ten years ago. A brothel that is now a private home. an attic full of valuable antiques.
How is all thia connected?
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Now You See It – Now You Don'tThe crew are asked by Wahnee to investigate a planet that has disappeared – and they find one actually hasChangesThe son of Net, book five, decides to become a sorcerer. He is a decent person and this is the story of the time he was a young man until his old age.Gothic WorldMaita wants to make some overhauls and changes so Z goes to a world in a pre-industrial stage for a vacation.As one would expect, it's a working...
4) Bottleneck
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Mrs. Bellows from the community center is found dead in a canal. CD investigates and finds there is a kiddie porn ring operating from the mobile home village.
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Three detectives, CD. Grimes, Nick Storie, and Clint Faraday, retired and living in Panamá on the Comarca Ngobe Bugle, are requested by the chief of the section in Cusapin to find what is going wrong in three parts of the comarca. There are four murders that have no connections they can find – except the victims all came to Panamá on the same private yacht.
Author's note: This is a bit of prediction, in a way. Much of my SF has come true, but...
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CD gets some cases in Florida, falls in love with the place and builds a home there.A developer is murdered. A stock broker is murdered. A young boy is murdered. Thereis a druggie execution that wasn't.CD gets to know some of the continuing characters. The lifestyle is different from that in Nicely.
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Five books in different genres. These are strange happenings to the characters portrayed.Murder Happens is a CD Grimes mystery.Anyone may someday get a case he/she can't quite get a handle on. At least CD gets to meet a number of very interesting charactersCritic commentI don't know if I like it or hate it. Moulton has made some normally negative characters into his most positive characters for this one. He captures a piece of underground culture...
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Lenny Hamilton is out of work, a doormat-type personality, chased by a clinging needy-type girl. He was in a sad state when he got a phone call from a friend, son of a major mobster. Marko Ponti was trying to get away from the mobster lifestyle and had taken on a job, house-watching a mansion on a tropical Caribbean island, all expenses paid for two people Would Lenny like to be the second person?
What? You're kidding, right?
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Three books of short stories from the Flight of the Maita seriesSettling InThe crew adventure together. They meet Sisstuh and Fesch and discover a colony of Ape's mother raceCritic commentNot as juvenile as book one. Several societal psychological areas are explored – quite effectively, I might add.PA – ***Zulians and RobotsThe crew discover the Zulians and Tlessonian military berserker. Tranz and Tom go home to raise families, leaving Z, Thing,...
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James "Jimmie the Shiv"Ames was having horrible luck in his life. Everything he touched seemed to come back to smack him in the chops.He went to a voodoo woman to see if there was some kind of curse on him. There was, and it was a powerful one. He had made a dangerous enemy who had the curse put on him. There was some kind of problem where the curse couldn't be lifted.He had the choice of that one or another to counter it. Either path led him straight...
11) Death Expectancy
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"And what would you say my life expectancy would be , Mama Naomi?""You ain't got no life expectancy, Mon. You got a death expectancy."
12) A Step Too Far
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Threaten CD Grimes' family? What? You're totally crazy ?This is the final book of the CD Grimes Mystery seriesCritic commentAnother one more in an action vein. I've stated before I like this kind of crap, and Moulton handles it far better than most.– JDM ****
13) Options
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Lucy Gladstone struck out again at the dating game. She was a virgin and, according to her mother, would destroy her chances of a good life that ended with going to heaven if she gave in to her natural desires.Tom Whitecloud was living a few doors down a floor below. He was, unlike so many, beautiful!Several girlfriends at work warned her that making an Indian her first would ruin her for other men. They would all seem so dull and inept.She had several...
14) Deadly Island
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One of "The Kids" is charged with murder on St. Wartons. CD investigates to find himself in the middle of a very strange intrigue indeed A bunch of international mobsters are going to try to take over South AmericaCritic comment:James Bond, move over I like this one. I really do like the kind of story that goes right to the line, but manages to not QUITE cross it.– JMD *****
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seven stories involving stormsHellstorm on HelstromYou just can't do some people a favor!Storm Front - Clint FaradayA severe storm, a drug runner, a body – but not the one expected. What was going on?Hate - from Enter Merlin Tyana.Merlin is a mysterious character who appears in a storm to solve or thwart a murder.Hellstorm - Nick StorieHurricanes are bad enough. You don't need a bunch of millionaire nutcases getting murdered in a public shelterFinal...
16) Good Bi
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A sort of study of a bi-sexual life in the discovery stages.A man gets rejected and goes into a bar that was right there. It is a gay bar. He meets the only man he ever had sex with, in high school. They get a little drunk, and he ends up spending the night with him.He liked it! He really liked it!He still liked women as much. this was something added.He was bi?Well, that proved to be the case. A bisexual sex addict! He underwent some experiences....
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Swan Song for an Agent A band hits the big time. They become hugely successful and tour. It is taking too much out of them, so they decide to break up.Then their agent is found with her throat cut. Nick Storie investigates.Sing a Song of MurderA band becomes successful on the strength of the front man. Things are looking up!Then the man's girlfriends start getting murdered.Final TourA singer is very popular and making millions. Then there are attempts...
19) Pedoverts
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Bottleneck - A woman is murdered. CD investigates to learn there is a ring of kiddie porn operating in the park. CD has to go to Europe in disguise.Death Walks Beside Me - A sad man going into the comarca. Anyone he gets close to is murdered. Why? What does Landrow, a name the medicine woman came up with, have to do with it? What do Vince's childhood friends have to do with it?Dead Drunk - a local man is murdered. The Indios on the island said that...
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A vacation in Central America. A stop for one week in Bocas del Toro, Isla Colón. A night of too much to drink and a few tokes too many.
Phil Colbert wakes up in a big round bed. There is a nude, very handsome Indio laying next to him. He is nude.
He groans and turns over. There is a beautiful woman peacefully sleeping on the other side
He doesn't remember much. Did he do anything with the guy or with the woman – or both? He seemed to remember....
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