#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter's Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when participants post about five books on their TBRs.
This week's prompt is "Title Starting with an 'M'". I've got lots of those so let's plunge right in. . .
01. Murder on the Lusitania by Conrad Allen (published November 30, 1999)
I have the entire Ocean Liner mysteries series (all titled, Murder on the. . .) published under the name of Conrad Allen, a pseudonym of Keith Mills. The titles are also published under Mills other pseudonym, Edward Marston, but I only have this initial title under that name.
September 1907. George Porter Dillman sets sail from Liverpool on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. Hired by the ship's captain to pose as a passenger, George is in fact a private detective for the Cunard Line. In the first days of his voyage, George only has to deal with a few petty crimes. But then an expensive piece of jewelry is reported stolen and a body is found. Working quickly to solve both crimes, George makes an unusual friend, Genevieve Masefield, and the two uncover secrets aboard the ship that prove explosive.
02. Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures edited by Mike Ashley (published April 5, 2018)
Featuring twelve stories by a roster of classic SF authors including Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells and John Wyndham. Before the Apollo 11 mission succeeded in landing on the Moon in 1969, writers and visionaries were fascinated by how we might get there and what we might find. The Greeks and Romans speculated about the Moon almost two thousand years before H.G. Wells or Jules Verne wrote about it, but interest peaked from the late 1800s when the prospect of lunar travel became more viable. This anthology presents twelve short stories from the most popular magazines of the golden age of SF including The Strand Magazine, Astounding Science Fiction and Amazing Stories and features classic SF writers as well as lesser-known writers for dedicated fans of the genre to discover. Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Exploration is the second volume in the British Library Science Fiction Classics series.
03. Memories, Mummies, México by Ivan Browning (published January 23, 2015)
She's young, feisty, on a mission, and surrounded by carousing people with faces painted like skeletons. Ellen Greer is a freelance journalist whose career is on the way up. Her latest lead takes her to the historic cities of San Miguel and Guanajuato, México. A "memory plant" used by an Indian healer living in a shack in the desert may help people afflicted with early-stage Alzheimer's disease. If it's true she wants the wily old medicine man to treat her mother. And she wants to tell the world about it in a story that's sure to go viral. But a global drug company is chasing the same plant--a company known for its bloodthirsty business practices in other Third World countries. The dangerous action starts with the macabre celebrations of Day of the Dead as a backdrop. Will Ellen's pursuit of a cure for her mother make her a candidate for the notorious Mummy Museum in Guanajuato?
04. Magpie Speaks by R. Allen Chappell (published February 12, 1996)
Dreams tell old man Paul T'Sosi he's dying. So why is Navajo trickster, Magpie, trying to tell him a far more terrifying secret? Hungry for revenge, Ma'iitsoh Dine', the Navajo Wolf, is out for blood. Summoning his darkest powers, the Witch of Ganado circles tribal investigator Charlie Yazzie's young son. Some may survive the witch's evil vendetta, but others will die to settle an old score. The unexpected happens when a woman from the past re-emerges to take control in this fast paced thriller critics now hail as the best yet of Chappell's sensational new southwestern mystery series.
Critics describe R. Allen Chappell's writing as "embedded and close to the ground" with an intuitive knowledge of the Navajo people and their land. Magpie Speaks, number 5 in the series, cements Chappell's legacy and puts him in the forefront of modern day Navajo Mystery storytellers.
05. Mountain Rampage by Scott Graham (published June 9, 2015)
In the riveting second installment of the National Park Mystery Series, archaeologist Chuck Bender finds himself and his young wife and stepdaughters in the crosshairs of an unknown killer when he defends his brother-in-law from false accusations of murder in the brutal slaying of a resort worker in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Scott Graham is author of Canyon Sacrifice: A National Park Mystery and Extreme Kids, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award. He is an avid outdoorsman and amateur archaeologist who enjoys hunting, rock climbing, skiing, backpacking, mountaineering, river rafting, and whitewater kayaking with his wife, an emergency physician, and their two sons. Graham lives in Durango, Colorado.
Have you read any of the above? Please let me know in the comments below.
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