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Friday, July 6, 2012

Blog Tour: Detecting Magic with Dick Hunter




Detecting Magic with Dick Hunter






Detecting Magic with Dick Hunter, Full Moon Bites Blog Tour

Book Title: The Mort des Hommes Files

Series: Detecting Magic with Dick Hunter

Author: A. Jarrell Hayes

Genre: Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Humor and Comedy

Publisher: Createspace

Paperback:

Pages: 162





Book Description:


“What begins as a routine missing person case for Seattle's best private investigator, Dick Hunter, turns into a personal vendetta against a cruel murderer. The murderer, Mort des Hommes, happens to be a hell spawn possessing powerful magic. To solve the case, Dick Hunter must join forces with a wacky cast of magic creatures in this wild and fun romp.”





Buy Links:

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Excerpt:

When I recall what I saw that day, I can scarce but wonder why I didn’t go insane. On the ground was the body of Mr. Hollis, bloody and torn but still barely alive and breathing. He was twitching on the grass like a chopped up inchworm. One arm was detached from the rest of his body, and the fist of that hand was clinched. Dangling freely from his torso was his intestines, pulled out from a huge gash in his lower stomach area. Blood flowed freely from his many wounds. Blood splattered Mr. Hollis’ face, too; and by the looks of things, it was his own blood at that.

There was a man looming menacing over his tortured body: a white gentleman in his early sixties, slim and in good shape, with cold blue eyes and a tuft of white hair sticking out from under his smoke gray derby hat. He’s wearing a black suit with a white shirt and simple black tie, a long gray wool coat over his suit. He held a spear in his right arm, and the tip of it was pointed at Mr. Hollis’ forehead.

I couldn’t simply stand and watch the murder of a man without attempting to stop it, so I pulled out my pistol and aimed it at the old man that looked like a reject from The Godfather movies. “Drop the spear!” I ordered.

The old man looked at me as if he hadn’t noticed that I was there beforehand. A sinister and arrogant smile formed across his pale face, and he spread open his arms as he faced me—he was daring me to shoot him!

I wasn’t going to shoot him as long as he didn’t threaten me. I was hoping he wouldn’t, because that would be a heck of a lot of paperwork to fill out at the police station. I was hoping that he would let go of the weapon he borrowed from Fred Flintstone and allow me to apprehend him and call the police. But, of course, life never is that easy, is it?





About the Author:

A. Jarrell Hayes is a fiction writer and prize-winning poet. He has authored over a dozen books of fantasy fiction and poetry. In his spare time, he designs t-shirts, hats, buttons, and more for writers, poets, and readers. He invites you to visit his website at A. Jarrell Hayes.





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Be sure and check out the other blogs on the tour for The Mort des Hommes Files



Tour Schedule:



July 5th

D. VonThaer
Tricia Kristufek
Amy's Book World
Full Moon Bites
LilyElement
Sweeping Me
A Diary Of A Book Addict

July 6th

The Book Connoisseur
Heart Of A Wolf
Book Review Club
The Bunnys Review
The Avid Reader
Nazish Reads
A Page Away
The Ebook Reviewers



This tour was put together by FMB Blog Tours

Friday Recommends #16




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Friday Recommends is a weekly meme hosted by Pen to Paper. This a weekly book blog hop where we as bloggers choose a book that we have read and recommend it to our fellow bloggers. We can then visit each others blogs to see what other bloggers recommend and find new books to add to our TBR list. Hopefully we all will have new followers from visiting each blog on the linky list.










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  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
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  • Pick a book that you've read, and have enjoyed enough to recommend to other readers. It can be a book you've read recently, or a book you read years ago - it's up to you - but make sure you tell us why you love the book (like a mini review). You make the post as long or as short as you like.
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  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!



My Recommend for this week:




Darkness Breaks (Darkness Falls, #2)

Title: Darkness Breaks (Darkness Falls #2)
Author: Jessica Sorensen
Paperback:
Pages: 300
Published: June 4th 2012
Publisher: createspace







Goodreads synopsis:

Kayla made her choice and now she has to live with it. She stays with the Day Takers, hiding in the city, staking vampires. But fighting vampires as a human is difficult.

Sylas constantly pressures Kayla to choose the life of a Day Taker. But until Kayla knows what Monarch is planning, she can’t make her choice. Plus there’s Aiden. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t stop thinking about him.

As Kayla’s memories resurface, the pieces of her history unfold. She learns of Cell 7, a place that Kayla believes holds the answers to the creation of the virus. But getting to Cell 7 is a dangerous mission. And with Kayla's strength weakening, it's one mission she might not make it through alive.




My Thoughts

The Darkness Falls Series is one of the best stories of vampires that I think I have ever read. The vampires are very different from vampires in most other stories. Most of the other vampire books they are very hot and sexy but not these. They are ugly and gross more like zombies in a post-apocalyptic world. Usually it is zombies in post-apocalyptic world and not vampires. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Darkness Fades the 3rd book in the series. Hopefuly with Darkness Fades we will find out how the virus started and if they can cure it or at least prevent it from happening again.







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