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Murder In Elysium

Author : George Wier
Publisher : Flagstone Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder In Elysium written by George Wier and published by Flagstone Books. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 KINDLE BOOK AWARD FINALIST! It’s murder in paradise. Who killed local debutante Delores Fogel in the sleepy, Central Texas town of Elysium? Benjamin LeFren was exonerated for the crime and released from jail thirty years after the fact, thanks in part to Shane Robeling, former FBI Agent and now Elysium’s Chief of Police. But now Shane is not so sure of LeFren’s innocence. When LeFren shows up in Elysium, Shane must now guard LeFren from the townspeople he has sworn to protect, and the only way to do that is to hire him as his ranch foreman, thus—in theory—keeping him out of harm’s way. But then the psychological warfare begins. As the local death toll begins to mount, Shane must discover whether it is LeFren carrying out the killings, or someone else from thirty years dead and gone. ACCOLADES for Murder In Elysium: "George Wier has done it again! Murder in Elysium is the multi-layered, dark tale of a decades old murder in this small, picturesque Texas town. Police Chief Shane Robeling still searches for the killer, and his association with Elysium is…complicated. Razor sharp, distinctive characters and a wicked, twisting storyline; these are Wier’s forte, and he is at the top of his game in this tale of murder, secrets, and lies in a town whose surface beauty hides both violence and depravity underneath." —Billy Kring, author of the Hunter Kincaid Mysteries “There’s a reason George Wier ranks among my favorite authors. The man is a first class storyteller who never fails to entertain me with his captivating tales of Texas intrigue and mystery. He’s done it again with Murder in Elysium, the story of an old murder in a small town where secrets and betrayal lurk just below the calm surface, and you never know what skeletons hang in the closets of the folks you nod to on Main Street or sit next to at the counter of the diner. Don’t start this book until you have time to read it all the way through because like all of Wier’s books, you won’t be able to put it down!” —Nick Russell, Author of the Big Lake mystery series. “George Wier writes the kind of mysteries that make you skip the chores or forget what's on TV, because you just want to read one more chapter. Then another. Add Murder in Elysium to that list. If you haven't discovered Wier yet, you’re in luck, because he has more than a dozen novels waiting to keep you entertained.” —Ben Rehder, Author of the Blanco County mystery series. “The rot that lies beneath the veneer of small-town friendliness is George Wier’s fodder in his masterful Murder In Elysium. In Shane Robeling, he has a detective that should be the replacement on the sad day that Bill Travis (of The Bill Travis Mysteries) finally has his last adventure. With enough clues to point to any and everyone, this mystery will keep you guessing until the final chilling reveal.” —Robert A. Taylor, Author of Warp and The Lascaux Nightmare, and the creator of Today In Alternate History.

Murder in Elysium

Author : George Wier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941026212
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Elysium written by George Wier and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death in Elysium

Author : Judith Cutler
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780105533
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Death in Elysium written by Judith Cutler and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing unconventional rector’s wife and amateur sleuth Jodie Welsh in the first of a brand-new mystery series Highflying city career woman Jodie Welsh was prepared for a dramatic change in lifestyle when she met and married the Reverend Theo Welsh, settling down to an entirely new kind of life as the wife of a country vicar in the picturesque village of Lesser Hogben. But if she thought life as a city deal-maker was tough, nothing could have prepared her for the emotional rollercoaster of local church and village politics. As a newcomer, Jodie encounters hostility and disapproval from several of the villagers, particularly in her efforts to engage and assist Lesser Hogben’s disaffected youth. When a local lad Jodie employed to help in her garden disappears, along with Jodie’s expensive camera, everyone around her is inclined to assume the worst. Only Jodie and the missing boy’s friend Mazza are convinced of his innocence. But Burble’s disappearance marks the start of a series of disturbing incidents which escalate in intensity – until the body shows up, and Jodie must use her well-honed negotiating and networking skills to unmask a ruthless killer.

Murder Comes to Elysium

Author : Daryl Anderson
Publisher : Mob City Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Comes to Elysium written by Daryl Anderson and published by Mob City Books. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tender Mercies Psychiatric Hospital is one of the darker places in the Sunshine State, so no one’s surprised when young college student Elena Santos dies while under its care. Though Elena’s death appears to result from a severe allergic reaction, the family asks PI Addie Gorky to investigate. Though still mourning her father’s death, Addie takes on the case, expecting to find evidence of neglect or malpractice. But soon the inconsistencies surrounding Elena’s death start piling up, with the tight-lipped and paranoid staff blocking the investigation at every turn. After discovering that Elena was not the inexperienced college student described by her family, but a woman with a haunted past, Addie risks everything to unlock the dark secret of the Tender Mercies. When a second person dies, Addie finds herself in a deadly chess match with an unseen opponent, a grand master of murder always one step ahead. Will Addie find a way to defeat this ruthless killer before another life is lost?

Sentinel in Elysium

Author : George Wier
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512079616
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Sentinel in Elysium written by George Wier and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1975, two years before the murder of Delores Fogel shocked the Central Texas town of Elysium, setting up the chain of events that would lead to the post-millennium conclusion to the mystery in Murder In Elysium. Michael Lee "Mucho Love" Harper, Elysium's Chief of Police, has a double-murder on his hands, and this is the strangest killing of his career. The Childresses were wealthy and they had their fingers in every slice of local pie. They were, however, hermits, hoarders, and the owners of a chain of funeral parlors that stretched from the Gulf Coast to El Paso. Mucho Love, Elysium's sentinel, must delve deeply into the dark secrets of his own town in order to catch the killer and hold onto his job-a monumental task, because the powers-that-be want anything but a resolution. ACCOLADES FOR THE ELYSIUM CHRONICLES: "The small Texas town of Elysium isn't a happy place. Shane Robeling, the chief of police, has had a hand in the release of a man convicted of murder nearly thirty years ago. When the man returns to town, resentments flare, old secrets are exposed, and trouble follows. Lots of trouble. The pace is fast, the characters could be your Texas neighbors, and George Wier has another winner. Check it out." -Bill Crider, author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes Mysteries. "George Wier has done it again! Murder in Elysium is the multi-layered, dark tale of a decades old murder in this small, picturesque Texas town. Police Chief Shane Robeling still searches for the killer, and his association with Elysium is...complicated. Razor sharp, distinctive characters and a wicked, twisting storyline; these are Wier's forte, and he is at the top of his game in this tale of murder, secrets, and lies in a town whose surface beauty hides both violence and depravity underneath." -Billy Kring, author of the Hunter Kincaid mystery series. "There's a reason George Wier ranks among my favorite authors. The man is a first class storyteller who never fails to entertain me with his captivating tales of Texas intrigue and mystery. He's done it again with Murder in Elysium, the story of an old murder in a small town where secrets and betrayal lurk just below the calm surface, and you never know what skeletons hang in the closets of the folks you nod to on Main Street or sit next to at the counter of the diner. Don't start this book until you have time to read it all the way through because like all of Wier's books, you won't be able to put it down!" -Nick Russell, Author of the Big Lake mystery series. "George Wier writes the kind of mysteries that make you skip the chores or forget what's on TV, because you just want to read one more chapter. Then another. Add Murder in Elysium to that list. If you haven't discovered Wier yet, you're in luck, because he has more than a dozen novels waiting to keep you entertained." -Ben Rehder, Author of the Blanco County mystery series. "The rot that lies beneath the veneer of small-town friendliness is George Wier's fodder in his masterful Murder In Elysium. In Shane Robeling, he has a detective that should be the replacement on the sad day that Bill Travis (of The Bill Travis Mysteries) finally has his last adventure. With enough clues to point to any and everyone, this mystery will keep you guessing until the final chilling reveal." -Robert A. Taylor, Author of Warp and The Lascaux Nightmare, and the creator of Today In Alternate History.

Murder Comes to Elysium

Author : Daryl Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947966062
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Murder Comes to Elysium written by Daryl Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PI Addie Gorsky is still struggling with her father's death when a friend asks her to look into the sudden death of his niece, Elena. The young woman died minutes after being discharged from Tender Mercies Psychiatric, one of the darker places in the Sunshine State. Addie agrees to this small favor, despite Elena's death from anaphylactic shock appearing like nothing more than a tragic accident. Soon, Addie uncovers small discrepancies in Elena's untimely death. Even more troubling is Elena herself, not the inexperienced college student described by her uncle, but a woman with a dark secret. When a second person dies at the Mercies, Addie discovers a connection between the two deaths. A connection leading back to one of the most heinous crimes in Florida's history and the horrific poisoning of seven small children. Suddenly Addie finds herself in a deadly chess match with an unseen opponent, a grand master of murder always one step ahead. Somehow, she must find a way to defeat this ruthless killer before another life is lost.

Elysium Tide

Author : James R. Hannibal
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493436279
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Elysium Tide written by James R. Hannibal and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Peter Chesterfield is one of the Royal London Hospital's top neurosurgeons. He is also a workaholic, ordered by his boss to take a week off to attend a medical symposium at the luxurious Elysium Grand on the island of Maui. While there, Peter pulls a woman with a skull fracture from the water. Though he is able to revive her in the ambulance, she eventually dies in his arms, leaving him with only one clue to what happened to her: the word "honu." Increasingly obsessed with discovering the cause of his patient's death, Peter becomes entangled in an ongoing investigation of a brazen luxury auto theft. He also becomes a source of deep irritation to detective Lisa Kealoha, who has jurisdiction over the case. But when the two join forces, they begin to uncover a destructive plot that runs far deeper than either of them could have imagined. And if they're not careful, they're both going to end up dead. Award-winning author James R. Hannibal whisks you away to the deadly beauty of Hawaii for a story of greed, violence, and justice that will leave you breathless.

Finding Elysium

Author : Henry K. Simpson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517289300
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Finding Elysium written by Henry K. Simpson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protagonist of this tale is Ed Lane, a retired Army officer, widower, and father of a twenty-one year old daughter about to leave for law school. A few years ago, he embarrassed a congressman and was fired from his job as a Federal Police Inspector. Lately, he's been working at odd jobs-bail agent, pizza deliveryman, private investigator, and, most recently, bartender at Keiko's, a small jazz club. A Keiko's regular, the president of Elysium Analytics, hires Ed Lane to identify the person who hacked into his company's computer network and posted damaging information on the Internet. Lane interviews company founders, managers, employees, ex-employees, and others. All are dissatisfied and want something-managers, more power; employees, better working conditions and job security. All want company stock and more say in executive decisions, but the powers that be won't sell. When an Elysium co-founder is murdered, his wife hires Lane to find the killer. Two other co-founders have died recently, possibly murdered. Lane uncovers an old case of hacking followed by a murder. He theorizes that Elysium's hacking and murders were linked and follows up with an investigation that takes him to a computer chip manufacturer, marriage and family counselor, country club, decrepit RV, tank gunnery range, fanciful Oz, popular surfing spot, Elysium competitor, and lemon grove. Along the way, a suspect initiates a love affair, he tracks a killer, gets in tight spots, endures obstructive cops, applies creative interrogation techniques, unravels a twisted narrative of who did what to whom and why, and gains a greater appreciation of mom, apple pie, and the American flag.

Elysium Girls

Author : Kate Pentecost
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1368044352
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Elysium Girls written by Kate Pentecost and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lush, dazzlingly original young adult fantasy about an epic clash of witches, gods, and demons. Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl. Until the day the people of Elysium are chosen by two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time, and space, and human lives. Elysium is to become the gameboard in a ruthless competition between the goddesses. The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years' time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain. Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkinson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium's gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, and they trigger a terrible accident that gets both Sal and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel. There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile: a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium's favor—only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game in this exciting fantasy debut.

Elysium Fire

Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316555647
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Elysium Fire written by Alastair Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera. Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths... As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies. For more from Alastair Reynolds, check out: Revenger.

Elysium's Shore

Author : Frank Loproto
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Elysium's Shore written by Frank Loproto and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elysian Creek is a natural waterway meandering through the woods of Georgia and Alabama, scenically appealing but at the same time hiding something deadly. When the bodies of drowning victims begin turning up in the creek, determined by the authorities to be accidental or suicides due to the absence of physical evidence to suggest otherwise, amateur sleuth Gray Rodman grows suspicious. Because he is possessed of the unique ability to detect human bio-magnetic energy and interpret the feelings and motivations of the people who emit it, he determines that the drowning victims were, in fact, murdered. With a restored old mansion, now an upscale apartment building known as the Stanford House, as the backdrop, Gray probes deeper into the drownings and discovers a long history of similar deaths in Elysian Creek that have never been adequately investigated by police. His investigation leads him to something unprecedented in his experience, a murder mystery that spans centuries and an adversary that attaches itself to him for reasons he must determine before his vital life energy runs dry. As he digs deeper into the mystery, Gray feels himself being drawn irresistibly closer to the Stanford House and the creek, embedding him in the cycle of death and making him even more determined to unlock the mystery of the drownings. In Elysium's Shore, Gray Rodman is faced with situations and concepts he is compelled to decipher and understand if additional deaths in the creek are to be prevented and his fate is to be secured. When an apparently normal body of water is perceived to flow between worlds and life and death become arbitrary concepts to something unearthly, the implications to anyone drawn too near become dire. A community in search of safety and security is thrown into chaos as concepts believed to be real are suddenly thrown into question, and Gray struggles to prevail as his own vital energy is steadily sapped away and he falls under the influence of the shadowy menace hiding behind the deceptive grandeur of the Stanford House.

Elysium Dreams

Author : Hadena James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781301706020
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Elysium Dreams written by Hadena James and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He skins his victims alive, taking pleasure from their pain.In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive, prolonging the experience as much as he can, but the satisfaction always wanes.Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Tracking Unit have just finished up another case when they get the call. Now they are packing their bags and heading for Alaska in March. The team must overcome the hostile locals and harsh climate to catch a killer before he steals the life another woman.

The Longing for Less

Author : Kyle Chayka
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635572118
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Longing for Less written by Kyle Chayka and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Yorker staff writer and Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the deep roots-and untapped possibilities-of our newfound, all-consuming drive to reduce. “Less is more”: Everywhere we hear the mantra. Marie Kondo and other decluttering gurus promise that shedding our stuff will solve our problems. We commit to cleanse diets and strive for inbox zero. Amid the frantic pace and distraction of everyday life, we covet silence-and airy, Instagrammable spaces in which to enjoy it. The popular term for this brand of upscale austerity, “minimalism,” has mostly come to stand for things to buy and consume. But minimalism has richer, deeper, and altogether more valuable gifts to offer. In The Longing for Less, one of our sharpest cultural critics delves beneath the glossy surface of minimalist trends, seeking better ways to claim the time and space we crave. Kyle Chayka's search leads him to the philosophical and spiritual origins of minimalism, and to the stories of artists such as Agnes Martin and Donald Judd; composers such as John Cage and Julius Eastman; architects and designers; visionaries and misfits. As Chayka looks anew at their extraordinary lives and explores the places where they worked-from Manhattan lofts to the Texas high desert and the back alleys of Kyoto-he reminds us that what we most require is presence, not absence. The result is an elegant synthesis of our minimalist desires and our profound emotional needs. With a new afterword by the author.

Elysium Dreams

Author : Hadena James
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490911489
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Elysium Dreams written by Hadena James and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the cold, dark nights of Alaska, a hunter is stalking his prey. Once found, he takes them into the woods and skins them alive, prolonging the experience as much as he can, but the satisfaction always wanes. Aislinn Cain and the Serial Crimes Unit head for the north to find this brutal and cruel killer. The climate is harsh, the locals are hostile, and each day the unsub moves closer to claiming his next trophy - Aislinn.

Elysium

Author : Will Ryan
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500427702
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book Elysium written by Will Ryan and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the sudden death of his father, Lt. Commander Lane Goodling leaves the active Navy, which he loves, to help manage his family's complicated holdings in properties and money. When he takes on the renovation of the ancient family estate and farmstead in Pennsylvania's Amish county. he finds more than he expected. Friendship, loyalty, betrayal love, sex, a gorgeous, mercurial soprano, the rare American Chestnut tree, a plucky biologist, honest lawyers, dishonest lawyers, and the senseless murder of a good man.

Murder in Mystic Cove

Author : Daryl Anderson
Publisher : Mob City Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Mystic Cove written by Daryl Anderson and published by Mob City Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guarding the manicured wilds of Florida's most exclusive retirement village might seem dull to a former homicide cop. But Addie Gorsky was tired of dodging bullets in Baltimore. After all, she’d moved to Florida to look after her father, and not chase criminals. Her new job as Mystic Cove security chief is a welcome change from all the big-city mayhem. But when Mystic Cove's most hated resident turns up in his souped-up golf cart with a bullet in his head, Addie springs into action. While the local cops focus on the unhappy wife, Addie knows there's more to the story. Only the deeper she digs, the more questions turn up. Surrounded by secretive, close-mouthed residents, Addie soon finds herself caught in a mystery as tangled as cypress roots--and directly in the sights of a calculating killer who is about to kill again.

Defending Elysium

Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher : Dragonsteel, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1938570278
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Defending Elysium written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Dragonsteel, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Brandon Sanderson’s #1 bestselling Skyward series celebrates its third volume, Cytonic, travel back in time to the origin of Cytonics in the novella Defending Elysium. Centuries before Spensa looked skyward from the planet Detritus—back on Old Earth before it was lost—Jason Write faced a crucial question: was humanity ready to join galactic society? When faster-than-light communications were discovered by a small telephone company in 2071, alien species such as the Tenasi and Varvax overheard them and came to visit Earth. Because the Phone Company controls all communications with the aliens, their operatives like Jason operate above the law. Now, on the space platform Evensong, one of the Phone Company’s scientists has gone missing before surfacing in a hospital with amnesia, and Jason is sent to investigate. Right as he arrives, the body of a murdered Varvax ambassador is discovered, sure to cause a galactic incident. Coln Abrams of the United Intelligence Bureau seizes the opportunity to investigate Jason as he deals with the crisis. This could be the UIB’s chance to discover the Phone Company’s secrets—how does FTL communication work, and what is Jason hiding? Winner of Spain’s UPC Award for Science Fiction in 2007.