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Anasazi Intrigue: The Adventures of John and Julia Evans, Book 1 (The Intrigue Series) Kindle Edition

by Linda Weaver Clarke (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
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When a devastating flood takes out several homes in a small town, residents are shocked by the news of also a possible poison spill that kills many of the fish and neighbor's pets. Julia, the town's newest reporter, begins her investigation but realizes the story is much bigger and more dangerous than she thought! Julia and her husband find themselves on the run trying to save their lives while finishing the story of a lifetime! She never realized that being a reporter could be so dangerous. With artifacts, dead fish, a devastating flood, and miscreants, John and Julia have their hands full.

The BIBLIOGRAPHY and research is as follows:
“Anasazi Diaspora,” from Navajo Visions and Voices Across the Mesa, Shonto Begay, Scholastic Inc., New York: 1995
“Looter gets 37 months in prison in stolen artifacts case in Vegas.” The Las Vegas Sun Newspaper. December 16, 2003.
“Nevada man, last of five sentenced in stolen relics case.” The Las Vegas Sun Newspaper. January 19, 2004.
“Relic looters get prison.” The Las Vegas Sun Newspaper. December 11, 2003.
“Stores of Hope Volunteer Committee.” Portraits of Loss, Stories of Hope published by Portraits of Loss, Stories of Hope; St. George, Utah. 2005.
“Two more defendants in artifacts case to be sentenced.” The Las Vegas Sun Newspaper. December 12, 2003.
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When a devastating flood wipes out homes in a small town, residents are shocked by the news of a possible poison spill that also kills many of the fish and neighbors' pets. The people don't know what to think or do, until Julia, the town's newest reporter, jumps into action and begins her investigation. Quickly Julia realizes the story is much bigger and more dangerous than she thought. As information unfolds, Julia and her husband find themselves on the run, trying to save their lives while finishing the story of a lifetime. Will Julia and John be able to get the scoop and save their lives?

About the Author

Linda Weaver Clarke travels throughout the United States, teaching a "Family Legacy Workshop," encouraging people to write their family history and autobiography. She is the author of eight novels: the historical romance series, "A Family Saga in Bear Lake, Idaho," which includes: Melinda and the Wild West - a semi-finalist for the "Reviewers Choice Award 2007," and a mystery series, "The Adventures of John and Julia Evans."

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AKHCWJU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Mountain Shadows Publishing (December 6, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 6, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4226 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 259 pages
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Linda Weaver Clarke has traveled throughout the United States, teaching and encouraging people to write their family history and autobiography. She is the author of an award-winning sweet romance, Melinda and the Wild West, for the “Reviewers Choice Award.” She is the author of historical romances, swashbuckling romances, a romantic cozy mystery series, a mystery/suspense series, non-fiction, and a children’s book. Clarke is the author of 32 books. All her books are family friendly.

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Barb Shelton
5.0 out of 5 stars The Intrigue of Anasazi Intrigue
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2011
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Some time ago I had the pleasure of reading" Mayan Intrigue" by Linda Weaver Clarke. It was the second book in a series called "The Adventures of John and Julia Evans." That story did intrigue me and I wrote a review. Ms. Clarke liked it and asked me to read her first novel in the series, "Anasazi Intrigue." Pleased by her invitation, I complied with Ms Weaver's wishes and downloaded a copy to my trusted Kindle. To my personal delight I enjoyed "AnasazI Intrigue" as well if not more than "Mayan Intrigue." Each book is played around an archeological theme, which caught my interest, as I am an archeological buff of sorts. I hold a deep respect of Linda Weaver Clarke's knowledge of extinct Indian tribes and her research is one of the key factors that make her stories so different and highly entertaining.
Hopefully, Ms. Linda will not mind my sharing some of her background I read In the front pages of "Anasazi Intrigue." Ms. Clarke refers to her favorite TV show in years past called "Hart to Hart" which featured a married couple madly in love investigating and solving crimes. This reviewer remembers this TV show to be humorous, romantic, and physically conditioned actors playing a glamorous couple chasing criminals and each other to and fro; and of course were both so worn out by the end of the show , they fell into bed. I could never figure out why as I was still too young to understand. To quote Ms. Linda, "I wanted to create something similar with good old fashioned values along with a little suspense and adventure."
Hence, Linda Weaver Clarke created and introduced Julia and John Roberts and their three daughters who all reside in Santa Clara, Utah. Julia is an investigative reporter for a local newspaper. John is a talented knife maker and helpmate to Julia's investigations; and always interested in catching romantic moments with Julia..... interested....trying. At times, reading through Julia's impetuous nature, I considered her a bit dingy...but I love the humor and fun she brings to the story. By the end of the book, she manages to use her entire family, including one of the daughter's boyfriend and John's friend Paul who is an archeologist with a local university to solve the mystery. Julia is a definite enigma in confusing even the thieves. She causes me to laugh out loud.
Ms. Linda includes true experiences that happened to her and her husband. There is no way of distinguishing which is whom, the Clarke's or the Evans'. Anasazi Intrigue's Utah setting and the flood are accurate details. The devastating flood was an actuality in 2005 on the Santa Clara/Virgin River in St George, Utah. It is in and about this region that the story unfolds with mystery and suspense. Devious destruction done to historical lands and artifacts by the bad guys Julia wants to expose. Julia suspected something fishy going on when she discovered the dead fish in the flood waters and dead cats in her neighborhood and carried them in a sack to a friend's lab to be tested for poison
Linda Weaver Clarke cleverly writes with gusto energy. Her writings are lively, romantic, suspenseful, tender, compassionate, humorous, mysterious, factual, keenly knowledgeable, fun, interesting, good old fashioned values and intriguing - and that's the point.
Barbara J. Shelton
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D. Dimick
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun family friendly adventure
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2020
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The story was fun and light hearted. I enjoyed the historical pieces and the story line was fun, but a tad thin. A good story for sharing with the kids.
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Sarah Hughes
1.0 out of 5 stars Complementarianism and mansplaining are not for me
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2022
I only made it 23 min into this book. I'm sure there's a interesting historical mystery in there and I wish I could get to hear it, but I could not stand one more minute of John and Julia. This author is obviously of a religion that follows complementarianism and John and Julia are a perfect example. This leads to way too much mansplaining for me to handle. Eg. Julia is a journalist, therefore college educated, yet John has to explain to her how floods happen and that fish can swim upstream. She repeats the opinion of her male, admittedly jerk of a coworker, as her own and lets her husband talk her out of that opinion. If you are likeminded with the author about the nature of a marriage and family, then I'm sure this book is for you. If you believe in equality, fluidity of, or equal amounts of respect for the genders, do not buy this book.
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Clarke
5.0 out of 5 stars Family friendly uplifting mystery
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
I enjoyed this mystery. It had a few twists and turns that kept me interested. I enjoyed John and Julia‘s relationship. They seem to have a lot of fun together even during trying times.
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Laura
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Cozy
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2019
I received this book for free. I am voluntarily leaving this review and all opinions expressed herein are mine.

This is the first book in the Adventures of John and Julia. John is a historian and Julia is a reporter for the local paper. Julia is looking for a story and after discovering some dead fish after a flood, she also learns some cats have suddenly died. She sends the fish off for testing and learns they died from cyanide poisoning. Now she believes she is on to something and begins to investigate in earnest - which causes someone to try to get her to stop.

John and Julia are a cutesy couple - married for decades and still mad about each other. At times I did not understamd that if this was their relationship, why Julia would keep secrets from him - although she does rectify that eventually. I liked the historical aspects of this mystery and learning about the Anasazi Indians. Overall, it was an enjoyable and interesting read.

I listened to this book - the narration, for me, fell flat especially during what should have been highly tense moments. The dialogue, as read by the narrator, often seemed very stiff and the male character voices were just not very good. However, she read clearly.
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Michele Brooks
5.0 out of 5 stars I Enjoyed Finding a Good Family Friendly Story with Intrigue & Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2019
I am an an avid reader but also almost exclusively audiobooks due to my schedule. Because of this, I can be critical of narrators. Especially when books have a single narrator required to speak with different voices for multiple characters. Most cannot do it without having some errors where they use the wrong 'voice' for the wrong character. Narrator Carolyn Kashner managed to pull it off in this book. And all of the voices were easy on the ears, by which I mean that none of the voices were hard to listen to or made me wish they would hurry up and finish talking so I didn't have to listen to it anymore. I have encountered many of those and it usually resulted in me returning the book unfortunately. I am a true believer in the fact that a bad narrator can destroy a great book and have turned away several books with good ratings because of just that. Luckily, I didn't have any problem listening to this book and was glad I didn't because the story kept me entertained throughout.

I am not a fan of including spoilers in my reviews, but John and Julia are a fun couple with three adult daughters. Now that they are grown, Julia is 'stretching her legs' in her reporter position and seems to have good instincts on when there is more to the story. Husband and wife keep things from each other and as a result, they manage to stumble into more than they were ready for. But, they still manage to keep their wits about them and outwit the bad guys. I'm excited to continue their adventure in Book 2 next.

I was given a free review copy of this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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