Winner Takes All by Claris Lam

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Title: “Winner Takes All”
Author: Claris Lam
Genre: Mystery (subgenre is amateur sleuth murder mystery)
Where to read: https://books2read.com/u/4EL8ro

Synopsis: “Aubri Harlow thinks she's found her dream vacation after winning a contest to an exclusive island resort for a whole week. However, her dream quickly turns into a nightmare when her ex-boyfriend Colin, ex-girlfriend Renee, and former university classmate Bastian end up on the same island as fellow contest winners.

Even worse? Colin is found dead barely a day into the vacation. Terrible weather prevents the police from arriving on the island to investigate. To keep herself safe, as well as her other companions, Aubri must find out who the killer is…or risk becoming the next target.”

Inspiration for the book: I was inspired by reading several mystery novels and authors, including Agatha Christie, Shari Lapena, and Lisa Jackson. I had such an entertaining time reading mysteries that I figured, why not try writing my own?

Kitra by Gideon Marcus

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Title: Kitra
Author: Gideon Marcus

Genre: YA Space Adventure

Where to buy: https://journeypress.com/titles/kitra/

Synopsis:

Stranded in space: no fuel, no way home… and no one coming to help.

From the pen of Hugo Finalist Gideon Marcus comes the found-family, YA Space Adventure you’ve been waiting for:

Nineteen-year-old Kitra Yilmaz dreams of traveling the galaxy like her Ambassador mother. But soaring in her glider is the closest she can get to touching the stars — until she stakes her inheritance on a salvage Navy spaceship.

On its shakedown cruise, Kitra’s ship plunges into hyperspace, stranding Kitra and her crew light years away. Tensions rise between Kitra and her shipmates: the handsome programmer, Fareedh; Marta, biologist and Kitra’s ex-girlfriend; Peter, the panicking engineer; and the oddball alien navigator, Pinky.

Now, running low on air and food, it’ll take all of them working together to get back home.

Far Removed: Book 1 in the Apidecca Duology by C B Lansdell

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Title: Far Removed: Book 1 in the Apidecca Duology

Author: C B Lansdell
Genre: Sci-fi / horror
Where to buy: https://books2read.com/farremoved/

Synopsis:
On the moon of Knyadrea, the sea yields intelligent life. For a species shaped by tides, change is the only constant.

Charismatic and innovative, Oklas Sayve has risen to prominence in Apidecca, the moon's capital city. A politician and college director, he has the resources to effect the changes he envisions for the world. But the sovereigns he serves oppose him at every turn and his status cannot protect the low-strata students attending his college. After a young knyad is wrongly linked to insurgent activity, Oklas must find a way to smuggle her out of the city while hiding his involvement from the authorities.

Below the grand Assembly Chambers, a knyad in a mask sculpts, grasping for scraps of beauty in her shrinking world. Years ago, Prismer made a costly mistake and now has only her job at the projection booth and a few special interests to fill her days. But it is not her sculptures that draw the attention of a powerful client, and she is soon met with a request to undertake a dangerous mission. Will she answer the call and risk losing the little she has left?

Mysteries surface. A supernatural substance is used in corrupt ways. As identities shift and predicaments are reshuffled, what alliances might be forged?