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    The Bali Mystery: Amelia Moore Detective Series
    The Bali Mystery: Amelia Moore Detective Series
    The Bali Mystery: Amelia Moore Detective Series
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    The Bali Mystery: Amelia Moore Detective Series

    By Linda Weaver Clarke

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    Amelia Moore, the founder of the Moore Detective Agency, specializes in missing persons. Her cases have taken her to some very interesting places and put her in some dangerous situations, but she always solves the case. With the help of Rick Bonito, her sometime partner, her business is flourishing.

    When Mrs. Brody hires Amelia and Rick to find her missing brother, they find themselves in Bali, Indonesia. They are mystified why her brother quit his job, put his home up for sale, and ran off to this mysterious and exotic island without telling a soul.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Weaver Clarke
    Release dateApr 24, 2014
    ISBN9781310766916
    The Bali Mystery: Amelia Moore Detective Series
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    Linda Weaver Clarke

    Linda Weaver Clarke was raised in the Rocky Mountains of Southern Idaho and now lives among the red desert hills of southern Utah. She is the author of Historical Romances, Swashbuckling/Adventure Romances, Romantic Cozy Mysteries, Mystery Suspense, a Children's Book, and Nonfiction. Linda is a missionary at the Family Search Center where she helps people find their ancestors so they can learn more about their heritage. She also teaches a class called Writing Your Family History that is free to the public at the Family Search Center in St. George, Utah. To learn more, visit www.lindaweaverclarke.com.

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    • 4/5
      Review of audio version.I loved the flirtatious friendship between Amelia and Rick. A lot of their interactions were humorous and adorable. The mystery involving a missing person which brings the pair to an exotic location provides the perfect backdrop for their burgeoning romance.Rick and Amelia were great characters. Both are well written and well performed. I loved how Diane Lehman could so convincingly perform such a variety of characters from an elderly woman's voice to Rick's male voice and switching back to Amelia again.I gave the story 4 stars instead of 5 because I thought they had quite an easy time with their actual detective work. William, the missing man, left a heap of breadcrumbs for the pair to follow which included a brochure circled with all the places he was going to visit in Bali and everything else they needed to know was detailed in a journal detailing why he had decided to disappear. Despite this I really enjoyed the suspense and mystery surrounding the people who were following and threatening Amelia.I didn't really like the singing. I just found it a little annoying and unnecessary. It starts with Rick singing 'Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,' and continues with Amelia sporadically singing songs from the movie South Pacific, of which she is a big fan.But these minute flaws were easily glossed over as the story simply pulled me in from the beginning. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and I listened to it in one session. The narrator does a fantastic job and this is definitely a series that I will want to follow.I received a copy in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      The island of Bali will certainly be besieged with all who read this exciting new, intriguing cozy mystery by talented author, Linda Weaver Clarke! If it had not been such a great story, the reader would have been lost in the visual portrait of Bali created by the author. Action permeates the plot from the first chapters of the book until the very end! One cannot help but admire the characters Linda has created for her lead couple - Amelia Moore & Rick Bonita. They are a delightful team, working together to solve the case. The various other characters are developed well and only add further personality to this enticing mystery.The title is perfect and the book cover is very well designed to enhance the reading pleasure of the pages within.I am truly looking forward to reading the next book in this delightful series!With my review of this book, I enthusiastically give it a Five Stars rating!**This book was sent to me by the author for an honest review, of which I have given.
    • 5/5
      This is a clean cozy mystery that starts off interesting and stays interesting until the end. Mrs. Brody hires Amelia, with the help of Rick, to find out what happened to her brother William. The journey takes them to Bali, and I loved traveling with them via this book. The descriptions of the area made me want to go there myself.The relationship between Amelia and Rick was cute. They had a bit of fun back and forth banter. For example, when Rick finds out their going to Bali, he tells her he’s taking his swimming trunks and can’t wait to see her in her bikini. She tells him they won’t have time for swimming. He tells her they have to act like tourists so they don’t stand out. So, they did touristy things and even crossed a few things off of Rick’s Bucket List in the process. He also talked Amelia into starting a list of her own.I liked how Amelia and Rick’s investigation took them from one clue to another, and from one place in Bali to another. The other characters were interesting, especially the men in suits, Williams “friends” from Pakistan. They added some mystery and thrills to the story. They seem to be just following Amelia and Rick, but later they threaten them. Rick ends up teaching Amelia some self defense lessons in case she has to protect herself. I liked the twists and turns throughout the book and wasn’t disappointed at all in the ending.I listened to the audio version of this book and really enjoyed it. I’m very picky about narrators. Sometimes I have a hard time differentiating one character from another, but that was no problem with narrator Diane Lehman. She really impressed me with the job she did on the voices.This is the first book in the series, so you won’t have to worry about catching up. I highly recommend it if you’re in the mood for a good clean mystery.
    • 3/5
      Amelia Moore is a private investigator and the owner of the Moore Detective Agency. She’s got several cases under her belt. So when Mrs. Brody hires her to find her missing brother (William), she doesn’t bat an eye. As she digs further into the case, she realizes she could really use the assistance of Rick Bonito, who she has hired in the past for certain jobs. Pretty soon, they find out that they need to travel to Bali to pick up William’s trail. Early on, Amelia notices two men following her. She figures once they leave the states for Indonesia, that will be the last of them. Alas, these men follow and Amelia is pretty sure they are hoping she will lead them directly to William. Luckily, Rick knows a few tricks for shaking them and that makes their job much harder. Amelia and Rick also have William’s journal as their secret weapon, giving them clues along the way as to why he left abruptly and what his end goal might be.This book is more travel romance than mystery. The descriptions of Bali, their natural tourist attractions, and the food all make me want to visit the beautiful island. The budding romance between Amelia and Rick is flirty and cute. Rick decided some time ago he was interested in Amelia and now she has to make up her mind if she’s interested in Rick or not. There’s torch lit dinners, dancing, hikes through forests, swimming with dolphins, etc. It’s like a first couple’s vacation without having had a first date yet. I especially liked the swimming with dolphins bit, though I wish the dolphins were free to come and go as they like instead of being kept for the tourist trade.With that said, the romance detracted from the mystery. While the romantic elements were well laid out and executed, the mystery elements were not so neat and tidy. Like Rick’s attempts to evade the two mystery men – these men have some training in trailing suspects and Rick’s quick corner turns, etc. seemed like teenager attempts to avoid the local sheriff. Also, later on there is a tracker placed on the vehicle and Rick simply moves it to another vehicle. Ummm… these guys know exactly what Rick and Amelia look like, what they are wearing that day, and what they are driving. So, I would have liked a bit more thought to have gone into these details.While Amelia has been a PI for some time, for some reason she has never taken any self-defense lessons. Rick offers some quick lessons and these were flirty and involved kisses (which was cute). Yet I had a hard time believing Amelia had over looked this part of being a PI. Several of the little tips Rick shared were common sense and in most regards, Amelia strikes me as a common sense woman. So, I was a little disheartened to see that she needed such basic self-defense training.Rick has William’s journal. I don’t have the impression that it was a 1000 page tome, yet it takes Rick most of the story to read it. This journal obviously has clues as to why William left and perhaps even where he intended to go, yet our heroes let it languish. I forget how long the flight to Bali is, but I am pretty sure either of them could have finished it in that flight. Normally, I like the ‘clues from a journal’ plot ploy, but for the clues to dribble out like this, I need the journal to be in secret code that needs breaking or something to make it believable.The pacing was a pretty mellow pace for most of the book. This allowed for the romance to develop and be sweet about it. There is one altercation with the two mysterious men at perhaps the halfway point that gives a little spike of excitement. The ending is where all the action is as we find out the answer to our mystery. I would have liked the action sprinkled throughout the story instead of being bunched up at the end. Also, I think if the romance was broken up by bits of action, I would have enjoyed the romance more.So while my enjoyment of this book was lukewarm, I would still like to see what happens with Rick & Amelia and the Moore Detective Agency. The two have some heat between them and Amelia surely has more mysteries to solve.I won a copy of this book from the author via a giveaway on her blog.The Narration: Diane Lehman had a great voice for Amelia – smart, strong, sometimes flirty. She also had a believable male voice for Rick that I quite liked. Since they are in Bali, Lehman had some accents to do and I believe they were done well (though I haven’t been to Bali so I am no expert on the Balinese accent). My one quibble with her performance is that she often mispronounced Bali. She would say it with a flat A, as you do in the word ‘play’ instead of using a round A as in the word ‘ball’. Later in the story, she sometimes gets the pronunciation right and sometimes wrong. It was a tiny bit distracting.
    • 3/5
      I actually listened to an audible version of this book. It is a cozy mystery where there is not a murder. Amelia Moore is hired to find a man by his sister. He has been missing for a couple of months and his house is up for sale. She calls on Rick, to assist her in her search. After searching his house, she finds information that leads them to Bali. While there, they search for William, scratch a few things off Rick's bucket list and begin to develop a bit of a romance.

      I enjoyed this story. This is the first book I have listened to and I am not sure if I like that form or not. The narrator did a good job with the book, but there were parts I had a difficult time hearing because she chose a quieter voice for certain characters.

      If you are looking for a cozy that is completely clean (no sex, no swearing) this is a great choice for you.

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