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Bad Moon Rising (Star Lawyers Origins Book 2) by [Tom Shepherd]

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MURDER AT THE EDGE OF THE STARS! 21st century murder-mystery with light undertones of science-fiction. Bad Moon Rising drops readers into the early life of a scientific giant.

Before a mature Tanella Jennings would become a Nobel Laureate for her work on Faster Than Light travel, an adolescent Tanella Blake and friend, Sally Ann Palmer, are stranded on Barrier Island off the Georgia coast in the path of a massive hurricane. When the killings begin and police arrest Tanella’s father for murder, the young prodigy decides to solve the crime before the storm passes and the real killer gets away.

Bad Moon Rising sparkles with close encounters. Cold blooded killers, drug smugglers, underwater escapes, and a storm surge that threatens to wash away everyone trapped on Barrier Island. And if Tanella drowns in the storm, humanity will never know that a gateway to the stars has closed with her passing.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07N2BQXMW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bookbag Press (February 14, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2975 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 210 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1795731036

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Tom Shepherd flew medical evacuation helicopters in Vietnam, where he received two Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Air Medal, and the Purple Heart. He has worked as a Japanese linguist, public school teacher, and graduate school instructor. Shepherd is originally from Reading, Pennsylvania, but lived in Alaska, Germany, Indochina, and the Republic of Korea. He spent the balance of of his professional career working with churches in the Deep South, California, and the Midwest and serving as Professor of Religious Studies at Unity Institute near Kansas City, Missouri. Author of a wide array of

articles and nonfiction books, plus more than twenty plays and two novels for the middle grades, Dr. Shepherd “retired” in 2016 to write novels full time.

Star Lawyers is his new series, which readers have described as “Star Trek meets Law&Order.” Tom Shepherd lives with his wife, Carol-Jean, and their genial pit bull, Riley, in Tucson, Arizona.

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Christine

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2022

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Excellent origins story and murder mystery. A bit fantastical - one could say there were too many murders. I actually really enjoyed having the story told from Sally Ann's perspective even though Tanella's future is key. Looking forward to the next book.

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Convoluted sleuthing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 8, 2019

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With the second book in the Star Lawyer Origins series this book, Bad Moon Rising, managed to surprise me even more than the first book in the series, Star Date.
The main characters are the very, very young Tanella Blake (who will in the companion Star Lawyer series become the renowned Dr. Tenalla Jennings) and Sally Ann Palmer.
It is the subject matter in Bad Moon Rising that was cause for most of my surprise.
On "holiday" on Barrier Island off the coast off Georgia these two girls manage to get themselves involved in international intrigue, drug running and a rising count of murdered bodies. And, as should be the case, it is the wit and sheer genius of Tenalla that really impressed. I loved her integrity and grit in the face of so much adversity as depicted in this book.
As to the plot, I think author Tom Shepherd probably was an acolyte of dame Agatha Christy for putting in a convoluted sleuthing plot to surprise and baffle the best of brains out there. Wow. Even Hercule Poirot or Miss. Marple would have had a tough time to figure out the detals and culprit behind all these shenanigans. But, oh so engaging!
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cavebiker

Interesting story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2021

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Having read the Star Lawyers series before reading Star Lawyers Origins, I thought I knew what to expect. I was wrong. Both series are good, but the Origins series (so far) seems more like Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew meets Star Trek - and, yes, I know that kind of gives you an idea how old I am.

To add to that, the Star Lawyers series is more Perry Mason meets Star Trek (both TV series I watched when they were still in production).

Mr. Shepard, I look forward to reading more of your books.

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spincast1123

More twists than a mountain road and just as fun.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2019

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This is one of those books that just keeps the reader guessing. The twists and turns made for a great read. The story is strong and the characters fill in, becoming real and quite believable. Once you start, it is hard to stop. Enjoyable from the start to the awesome end.

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Two young girls figure out the mysteries.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2019

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This book keeps you on your toes. First because there is more than one mystery going on, second because there our numerous antagonists and third because the two amateur detectives that are 14 years old.

Read and enjoy.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2022

Great Read!!!

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Dr. Geoff

Fun and engaging mystery with a dash of S-F and lots of foreshadowing!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 15, 2019

If you are a fan of the Star Lawyers series, which I admittedly am, then this is a real departure and a very different genre for Tom Shepherd. It's a mystery! It's a murder mystery, and main character Tanella Blake's dad is the prime suspect! Well, when you get down to it, it's a kind of complicated situation: World peace is hanging in the balance, greed, and nation-states are jousting, and two 14-year-old teens are trying to solve the murder mystery - no MYSTERIES - and stay alive in a killer hurricane that has hit coastal Georgia.

If that's not enough, then this book is taking place at the same time that a starship is capturing Tanella's friend Mark in the Stardate book, and a character from THAT book is going to show up a few thousand years later! Whew! A lot is going on here.

The point/counterpoint between ditzy Sally Ann Palmer who has a mad teen crush on a Middle-Eastern prince, and genius Tanella Blake, who we already know is the person who creates and discovers faster than light travel when she grows up is very entertaining. I like the origins aspect of this story. It's a lot like a live action version of Clue in some ways. The stakes are dire in this book, though, and, the action is thrilling. The dialogue is outstanding, and the world and character building are quite good.

As we progress through the story, very few people are whom they seem to be, hidden motivations revealed, and as people keep dying and the storm rages on, trapping everyone on a barrier island off the coast of Georgia, the tension keeps ratcheting up. It's a wonder any of them survived, especially Tanella.

Don't get and read this book expecting Sci-Fi. It's not there. The only sci-fi aspects to the book are that we KNOW Mark has been kidnapped and is escaping a hungry dinosaur when he calls Tanella, and the fact that we know that Tanella ends up developing FTL travel. Otherwise, it needs to be read and enjoyed for what it is. This book would appeal to teens, young adults, and (apparently) aging sci-fi fans such as myself who also love a good mystery. Tanella is so darn smart that in some ways she reminds me of Donald Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown.

In some ways whimsical, in many ways filled with teen angst, this was a fun and enjoyable read, and an excellent companion to the marvelous Star Lawyers books.

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Teen angst on display - badly...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 13, 2019

tl;dr: maybe there is a story in there, I didn't find out.

I realize you are supposed to hate her, so the author was succsessful. Right until I stopped reading 10% in. Bye bye. At least it was a KindleUnlimited free read... all I wastedwas time and brain cells!

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Gripping

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 7, 2020

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As well as a gripping story on it's own this is also a great follow up to Stardate., the first of the prequels. A great prelude to the stories to come.

Meenaz Lodhi

Delightful!

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on February 16, 2019

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“They’ll be a bad moon rising tonight.”
A delightful murder-mystery, a great read, fast, engaging mystery with a good dose of humanity and action galore.The idílic description of the landscape is thorough, together with snaps of American history and the eternal Middle East conflict. The characters are vivacious, in their youthful teens. Sally Ann may seem the typical dumb blonde stereotype, but she’s smart, sensitive and warm hearted, while Tanella is the intelligent, intelectual with a high IQ one. They complement each other perfectly. This book brought back memories of the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton which I so loved in my youth! It’s a wonderful and refreshing story, fun to read, full of suspense and intrigue, with many humorous scenes, witty and fun dialogue. It had filled me with chilling, scary moments and lots of laughter too. The teens go through thrilling adventures, Sherlock Holmes like detective deductions, persecution,..Tom Shepherd has demonstrated his expertise in writing exceptionally well with whichever genre he proposes to write, I may even say at Agatha Christie’s level! I wasn’t expecting less from him! Congratulations, Dr. Tom!

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