MURDER IN PLANE SIGHT --Review

MURDER IN PLANE SIGHT by Julie Holmes ISBN:979-8-9914430-7-4 Pulished by Mayhem Books, 2025 Note that the title of this story is not misspelled. Principal character in this emotional crime novel is Sierra Bauer. She's an unusual young woman in an unusual career. Skilled and competent, forthright and often blunt speaking, she works carefully and grittily as a trained licensed aircraft mechanic at the Minneapolis/Saint Paul Airport. Specifically she's a designated air-frame and powerplant mechanic, which meant she was certified by the FAA to wok on a new small passenger planes being introduced to their fleet at Range Air, a Detroit-based commercial airline company. The author introduces discomfort very early, even before Sierra arrives for her January night shift at Range Air's maintenance hanger. But then the body of another employee is discovered in a recently arrived Rnfge Air passenger aircraft. The novel is replete with fascinating details of FAA rules and air safety regulations. They are presented in such a way as to inflate reader's satisfaction and trust of air travel safety for the reader and at the same time helping to move the plot forward. Enter the cop. Quinn Moore is a tall experienced cop employed by the MSP airport and assigned to sort out the discovery of the dead employee. The interview Detective Moore conducts with distraut Sierra Bauer, in spite of the suspicion he radiates, is also clearly the beginning of a different kind of relationship. All the relationships are complicated and a budding romance only adds to the confusion. Ultimately resolutions are sorted. The pace of the novel and the competent writing will carry readers along with the necesary level of satifaction. The plot is excellent, the main characters are well-drawn and the necessary descriptive segments are well-handled and motivate the reader. The only real difficulty is the length. There are too many development paragraphs which slow plot movement beyond what is truly useful.

THE SONG CALLS--Review

THE SONG CALLS by Laurie Lynnsee & A.W. Powes ISBN: 979-8-9914430-5-0 Mayhem Books 2005 release A deep dive into two worlds that intermingle in both positive and negative ways. Empaths are dwfined as individuals with higher than normal sensitivity to and with other humans. Often that empathy is described as heightened sensitivity to the auras and mental energy emanating from the core of the being. It's an area of human existence that requires considerable in-depth study. This is the story of two empathetic sensitive sisters, Elise and Ruth, both keepers of empathy for some of those around them. Elise, the more sensitive is an accomplished musician returmning from college with her flueglehorn. At home, she teams up with sister Ruth in musical paths. Ruth is employed by the local county sheriff. She is also a talemted pianist and singer. The sisters form a band based largely on the music written by their deceased father. External dark forces gather to affect band mmbers in a negative way, the mental conditions, especially of Eliese. Dark. aggressive auras begin to intrude in insidious ways that have great potential to wreck what is a talented musical band. The careful blending of mental and musical abilities is judiciously handled by the authors and works well in this overlong and wordy but fascinating and interesting novel.