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Under a Blue Moon: An Origin Story: Blue Moon Investigations Urban Fantasy Book 11 Paperback – July 9, 2019

by steve higgs (Author)
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Tempest Michaels is about to have a bad week.

When a newspaper ad typo sends all manner of daft paranormal enquiries his way, P.I. Tempest Michaels has no sense of the trouble and danger heading his way.

In no time at all, he has multiple cases to investigate, but it’s all ridiculous nonsense like minor celebrity Richard Claythorn, who believes he is being stalked by a werewolf and a shopkeeper in a nearby village with an invisible thief.

Solving these cases might be fun if his demanding mother (Why are there no grandchildren, Tempest?) didn’t insist on going with him, but the simple case of celebrity stalking might not be all it seems when he catches a man lurking behind the client’s property just in time to see him step into the moonlight and begin to transform.

All he wanted was a nice easy job where he got to be his own boss and could take his trusty Dachshunds to work. How much trouble can a typo cause?

The paranormal? It’s all nonsense, but proving it might get him killed.
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    Blue Moon Investigations
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    104 pages
  3. Language
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    July 9, 2019
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.26 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1079533389
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1079533385
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (July 9, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 104 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1079533389
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1079533385
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.26 x 9 inches
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When Steve Higgs wrote his debut novel, Paranormal Nonsense, he was a captain in the British Army. He would like to pretend that he had one of those careers that must be blacked out and generally denied by the government, and that he has to change his name and move constantly because he is still on the watch list in several countries. In truth, though, he started out as a mechanic - not like Jason Statham in the film by that name, sneaking around as a hitman, but more like one of those sleazy guys who charges a fortune and keeps your car for a week even though the only thing you went in for was a squeaky door hinge.

At school, he was largely disinterested in all subjects except creative writing, for which he won his first prize at the age of ten. However, calling it the first prize he won suggests that there were other prizes, which is not the case. Awards may yet come, but in the meantime, he enjoys writing mystery and thriller novels and claims to have more than a hundred books forming a restless queue in his mind because they are desperate to be written.

Now retired from the military, he lives in southeast England with a duo of lazy sausage dogs. Surrounded by rolling hills, brooding castles, and vineyards, he doubts he'll ever leave, the beer is just too good.

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Joanne L Hartzell
5.0 out of 5 stars great reading!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2023
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This is a great first book in the series! As you are introduced to the characters, mysteries are well solved.
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Bobby
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and humorous without being campy
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2020
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I enjoy his books, this was a nice introduction. The characters are interesting without being overly exaggerated. Tempests mother reminds me of my own mother, but that's not all bad lol.
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Carolyn Jean Evans
5.0 out of 5 stars Great start
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2023
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This is a strange story introducing the Blue Moon Investigations series. The characters are great, the plotting is excellent and the mysteries are unusual.
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Luna Soliel
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and funny
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2019
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Someone said this is book 2 of a series. I hadn't read the first, so any fill-in back story was helpful as I got to know our PI, Tempest Michaels.
Having left the military, Tempest decides to open a Private Investigation office.
The typo is in the local newspaper, where his half-page ad lists him as "Paranormal" Investigator. He does not believe in ghosts, werewolves, or any other paranormal creatures, but when he begins receiving calls for paranormal investigations, he decides to make the best of it (he needs the money, after all), and strikes out to find logical explanations for his clients' claims.
A werewolf is stalking one client, threatening to make the once-near-famous actor part of his pack. A local shop keeper insists the Invisible Man is stealing from him. A man insists his wife has turned into a ghoul and wants Tempest to kill her.
The two dopey dachshunds are Tempest's pets, who enthusiastically get involved in investigations. Along with a buddy from Tempest's military days, the quartet has quite a night with a pack of werewolves.
Tempest is also burdened with a mother concerned that she has no grandchildren and constantly trying to find "the right woman" for her son.
Then there are the police, who decide that Tempest - wearing camo gear in order to better capture the werewolf and Invisible Man - is a terrorist.
This was an enjoyable book and I'm looking forward to reading more about Tempest's Blue Moon Investigations and his canine companions. And, of course, Mom and Tempest's army buddy.
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Dawn Boelke
3.0 out of 5 stars Book was too short for price I paid.
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2023
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The storyline of this book is fine (I’ve read the 7 books that take place after this prequel). I was disappointed on how short the story was for the price that I paid. It wasn’t a great value.
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Madam Pince
5.0 out of 5 stars How Tempest Earned His Title
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2019
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Retired Army Officer Tempest Michaels looks forward to opening his private investigation agency, but on his first day, he’s shocked to find a typographical mistake in his half-page newspaper advertisement lists him as a “paranormal investigator.” Like any sensible man, Tempest knows creatures like vampires, werewolves, Bigfoots, and ghosts don’t exist and feels certain his business is doomed, but while he’s arguing about corrections with the editor of Weald Word, his first client calls to request that he dispatch a werewolf, and Tempest realizes this blunder might not be so bad.

Which is how he finds himself at the home of a washed-up B actor who earned his fame as a celluloid werewolf and is now stalked by a deranged fan who can’t distinguish between cinema & real life. Then an anxious husband demands that Tempest kill the ghoul that has possessed his lovely wife (and provide photographic proof), and an elderly shopkeeper asks him to sort out the invisible poltergeist that shoplifts every night after closing. All cases are settled and everyone is pleased, but Tempest can’t help but recall that the werewolf looked awfully realistic …

Tempest is a man for our time — an experienced but modest retired soldier who loves his dachshunds, Bull and Dozer, without shame, and relies on his small but loyal group of friends who are always ready to help their pal solve a good mystery, especially if knocking stubborn heads or meeting pretty women are involved. And what modern single man lacks an interfering mother determined to marry him off to the nearest fertile female, even one pregnant with another man’s child? Within a few pages, Tempest becomes not just a narrator, but a friend, and following his adventures promises a phenomenal quest.
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Jane Queue
4.0 out of 5 stars Another very fun read!
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2024
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Keep at it , sir. I am hooked. The whole series is just plain FUN. Simply really enjoyable reads, every one of them@
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Peggy
5.0 out of 5 stars All Caught Up
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2019
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Well I've read all of the Blue Moon Paranormal Investigation series and for the most part really enjoyed it. As a matter of fact the trash talk was the only thing I didn't like and this book didn't carry much of anything in that direction.
While I'm waiting on a new Blue Moon story to come out, I'm going looking for Amanda Harpers stories. While she didn't play a part in this story, she played first a police officer then a partner to Tempest Michaels. I'm glad Steve Higgs gave her some stories as well.
In this book however, it the very beginning of Blue Moon and the only prominent character you will meet besides Tempest and his mother is Big Ben. Definitely worth a read.
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Evelyn Mejia
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in Canada on June 26, 2021
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I had been reading the Blue Moon investigation series,really good mix of suspense,humour and some base on legends and real life mysteries, I like that is been told by the protagonist point of view
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DY.Arc-en-ciel
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting until the end
Reviewed in France on November 3, 2019
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I keep downloading the next in the series and looking forward to read more from thz author
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R J Musgrave
5.0 out of 5 stars An un-put-downable joy to read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2019
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An un-put-downable joy to read, with many amusing parts, in which I could not stop smiling. Also, having quickly become invested in the very human and likeably flawed characters, I occasionally read with heart in mouth through suspense, anxiety and worry about what will happen next in life-threatening moments.
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This is the first (but written later as a prequel or origin story) of an addictive series of books in which a former military man, Tempest Michaels, attempts to set up and run his own civilian private investigation agency, called Blue Moon Investigations, in the county of Kent in South East England. He needs an income.
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Although starting off as a one-man band, as it were, he is occasionally assisted for muscle, moral support, and back-up by another former soldier with whom he had served and who is unusually large in stature, and a varied band of friends. Also he is sometimes accompanied to work by his two beloved but diminutive miniature dachshunds, who seem to be a big hit with the ladies.
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Unfortunately his initial advertisement for the new-start business, suffers a typo (or else some mischief) in the back room of the local newspaper and so he is wrongly presented to the public as a paranormal investigator. This is an embarrassing and unexpected disaster because Tempest does not believe in the paranormal, and had no intention (nor knowledge, nor equipment) to investigate it. Fortunately he meets an eccentric local specialist bookseller who is a firm believer and knows all about it.
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Despite this initial advertising calamity, work trickles in, unexpectedly. Several desperate clients start to contact Tempest with bizarre and spooky or even terrifying problems, which they are convinced to be paranormal, and which the police will not, or cannot, take seriously nor look into. Some of these seem serious or dangerous enough to be investigated, so Tempest agrees to do so; not at first having any idea how even to begin.
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As Tempest does not believe in the paranormal, at all, he sets about trying to find a rational explanation and a human perpetrator behind each such problem that he is hired to solve.
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There soon seems to be no shortage of worried clients, as the series progresses, so the business soon becomes potentially profitable and he still has to hit the ground running. He soon builds himself a favourable reputation and local fame, and the business expands; even in one episode taking him abroad and into great danger in the French Alps.
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This particular book, being the very first episode (though they can be read in any order), is mainly about two cases: firstly a local retired and wealthy lesser-known screen celebrity being stalked and frightened by someone whom he claims to be a werewolf. Additionally there is another case of a local small shopkeeper who is suffering mysterious disappearances of stock from the shelves at night, taken by someone unknown, who seems to be invisible (at least to his night security cameras).
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Learning and improvising as he goes along, Tempest solves both cases but not without difficulty, human mistakes, real alarming danger and setbacks, or even getting arrested by the police; which seems by later books to become a recurring occupational hazard. Additionally, throughout, although there are many moments of humour, there are also genuinely scary moments.
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A breathless, exciting, funny and enjoyable read, in which much white-knuckle adrenaline is triggered both for the principal characters and for the reader. Not a bad achievement from the comfort of a domestic armchair, or during bed-time reading.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than the cover
Reviewed in Australia on May 11, 2019
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The cover implies a cozy mystery but it isn't. It is a well crafted book. Book one paints a pleasant invitation to others in the series.
Characters are dimensioned and believable the premise is clever and well delivered.
You'll enjoy it.
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Ellen Decasmaker
3.0 out of 5 stars Over priced
Reviewed in Canada on November 16, 2020
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The story is good but there's not much to it for the price
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