Reviewers praise Lance Underphal paranormal mystery thrillers – "must be read to be believed"
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — With the success of the second Lance Underphal Mystery, fans and reviewers are busy describing the Arizona author's mystery books as "killer." Their intricate plotting gets 5 star acclaim, pushing the envelope in the mystery, thriller, suspense genres.
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Following hot on the heels of Flight of the Tarantula Hawk is the release announcement for the third mystery novel in the series, Grey Daze.
As Dark Side of Sunset Pointe begins the series, Lance Underphal suffers business and personal bankruptcy, wiped out by the Great Recession, hitting rock bottom when he loses his wife at the hands of a drunk driver.
Broke and living in squalor, Lance struggles to expose shady real estate developers, crooked bankers, and a blackmailing stripper. With the guidance of his dead wife, Lance finds the courage to share his insights with a skeptical homicide detective as the body count mounts. Lance's only hope—the voice in his head, his dead wife.
Reviewers praised Scott's interplay of corrupt characters immersed in real-life schemes. Paranormal twists and fast action in movie-like scenes set the story's mystery thriller elements apart from the typical whodunit and serial-killer thriller.
In the second Lance Underphal Mystery, Flight of the Tarantula Hawk, Scott raises paranormal intrigue to a new level. A giant desert wasp known as a tarantula hawk paralyzes tarantula spiders, burying tarantulas to lay eggs in the spiders' bellies which grow to eat them alive. As one reviewer put it, this book is "not for the faint of heart."
Dark and gritty, this psychic journey of realism twists through vacant bank foreclosures and a Goth fest gone wrong to wind up in a shiny new morgue. Once again plagued by murderous visions, Lance fights to identify a psychotic killer before he falls victim, himself. His dead wife, the only voice standing between Lance and annihilation.
Gray Daze, Scott's third Lance Underphal Mystery, reportedly immerses Underphal in another murder spree—a crime ring preying on the elderly. Federal agents of the ATF, gun-running bikers, and an ex-SEAL private investigator mix it up while Lance's dead wife looks over his shoulder, guiding him to redemption.
The emergence of these three unique tales propels Michael Allan Scott and his psychic sleuth into new territory for a contemporary murder mystery series. Not noir, but owing a bit to noir, not horror, but owing a bit to the horror genre, they are sometimes police procedurals, other times haunting precog fantasies. Like good jazz, a melding of styles, a melding of genres—ultra-cool compositions.
As the Lance Underphal mysteries come of age, they deepen, developing with each new novel, expanding the boundaries of the mystery thriller genre.
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