The Serena Wilcox Mysteries: Books 1, 2 & 3
Book Details
Author(s)Natalie Buske Thomas
PublisherIndependent Spirit Publishing
ISBN / ASINB007TYPJ2E
ISBN-13978B007TYPJ29
CategoryKindle Edition
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries, featuring the private detective readers say they wish they could have as a friend, didn't break through until ANGELS MARK (book #4), written a decade after the first three books in the series. ANGELS MARK made Amazon's bestselling list on multiple occasions. But before the success of ANGELS MARK, the Serena Wilcox Mysteries was a little-known, little-read suspense series with a rough grassroots beginning.
Serena Wilcox made her first appearance in the last half of GENE PLAY, the little red book that started the series in 1998. GENE PLAY had a print run of only 500 copies and until now has not been available for a wide audience.
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries involve unique crimes with diverse themes: GENE PLAY's plot is about in-vitro fertilization. VIRTUAL MEMORIES is about virtual reality. CAMP CONVICTION is about cults. All of these plots include motives such as greed and envy. Enjoy the humble beginnings of The Serena Wilcox Mysteries. Next graduate to book #4 ANGELS MARK; the break-through novel for author Natalie Buske Thomas and her series (not included in this bundle).
More about the series:
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries are clever, witty, "oodles of fun", page-turners, one-night-reads, and ADDICTIVE! They are also hard to classify into a single genre, and are a genre all their own: "Creative Crime", crimes that have never happened (yet), either because the technology doesn't exist, or because no one has thought to do it.
Other features of the series are its offbeat plots (plots-within-plots with many twists and endings readers can't guess) and no graphic violence or sexual content, yet edgy (hardboiled) and contemporary, even futuristic, when read the same year as the publishing date; the books written in 2000 or earlier have lost most of that edge.
The series has been labeled Christian or religious due to the author's mention of praying or faith, yet readers who don't share her views have commented that the series is not "preachy" and religious bias was slight and not offensive. Readers have commented that they appreciate a clean fun read, regardless of religious views.
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries books 1-3 (GENE PLAY, 1998, VIRTUAL MEMORIES, 1999, and CAMP CONVICTION, 2000) are light page-turners with creative plots. The writing, especially in GENE PLAY, is simplistic. The early books are nonetheless fun to read, especially for readers who like knowing how a series began.
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries books 4-6 (ANGELS MARK, 2011, COVERT COFFEE, 2012, and BLUEBIRD FLOWN, 2013) are powerful plot-twisting suspense novels; hard-hitting and controversial. Plots are futuristic, political and intense. The writing style is vastly different from the early books and word count is significantly higher as well.
While books 1-3 don't need to be read first (or at all) to enjoy books 4-6, readers say that they prefer reading the early books before the later ones; learning how the character of Serena Wilcox developed over time, and how the writing style of the author developed. This 3-book set also contains commentary from both the author and her editor daughter, plus a recipe for the mysterious memory enhancing shake in VIRTUAL MEMORIES.
"The Serena Wilcox Mysteries: Books 1, 2 & 3" is a fast way to catch up with the series, and meet Serena and her creator Natalie Buske Thomas at the very beginning, where all great journeys begin.
Serena Wilcox made her first appearance in the last half of GENE PLAY, the little red book that started the series in 1998. GENE PLAY had a print run of only 500 copies and until now has not been available for a wide audience.
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries involve unique crimes with diverse themes: GENE PLAY's plot is about in-vitro fertilization. VIRTUAL MEMORIES is about virtual reality. CAMP CONVICTION is about cults. All of these plots include motives such as greed and envy. Enjoy the humble beginnings of The Serena Wilcox Mysteries. Next graduate to book #4 ANGELS MARK; the break-through novel for author Natalie Buske Thomas and her series (not included in this bundle).
More about the series:
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries are clever, witty, "oodles of fun", page-turners, one-night-reads, and ADDICTIVE! They are also hard to classify into a single genre, and are a genre all their own: "Creative Crime", crimes that have never happened (yet), either because the technology doesn't exist, or because no one has thought to do it.
Other features of the series are its offbeat plots (plots-within-plots with many twists and endings readers can't guess) and no graphic violence or sexual content, yet edgy (hardboiled) and contemporary, even futuristic, when read the same year as the publishing date; the books written in 2000 or earlier have lost most of that edge.
The series has been labeled Christian or religious due to the author's mention of praying or faith, yet readers who don't share her views have commented that the series is not "preachy" and religious bias was slight and not offensive. Readers have commented that they appreciate a clean fun read, regardless of religious views.
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries books 1-3 (GENE PLAY, 1998, VIRTUAL MEMORIES, 1999, and CAMP CONVICTION, 2000) are light page-turners with creative plots. The writing, especially in GENE PLAY, is simplistic. The early books are nonetheless fun to read, especially for readers who like knowing how a series began.
The Serena Wilcox Mysteries books 4-6 (ANGELS MARK, 2011, COVERT COFFEE, 2012, and BLUEBIRD FLOWN, 2013) are powerful plot-twisting suspense novels; hard-hitting and controversial. Plots are futuristic, political and intense. The writing style is vastly different from the early books and word count is significantly higher as well.
While books 1-3 don't need to be read first (or at all) to enjoy books 4-6, readers say that they prefer reading the early books before the later ones; learning how the character of Serena Wilcox developed over time, and how the writing style of the author developed. This 3-book set also contains commentary from both the author and her editor daughter, plus a recipe for the mysterious memory enhancing shake in VIRTUAL MEMORIES.
"The Serena Wilcox Mysteries: Books 1, 2 & 3" is a fast way to catch up with the series, and meet Serena and her creator Natalie Buske Thomas at the very beginning, where all great journeys begin.
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