Elisha Grey, middle-aged bachelor and polymath scholar at the Temple of Learning in Atlantis during the Second Era between two Civil Wars, has begun working as a consulting detective with the constabulary of the capitol after the murder of his former lover, who was his best friend's sister.
When he needs rooms near the Temple, he visits a two bedroom flat the same day that Kiara Ptolmai, half-Atlantean and daughter of the Atlantean Ambassador to Chungkuo, visits. Neither of them can afford the flat on their own, and so they decide to share it.
Kiara Ptolmai is concentrating on her first year studies in jurisprudence at the Temple, while Elisha Grey reads lectures in a wide variety of subjects -- anthropology, crimonology, psychology, sociology, and chemistry among others. Yet he also will readily accept a request from the chief of the constabulary to help with investigating a crime, and Kiara finds that he has no hesitation about asking for her help. As she's both a diplomat's daughter and new to Atlantis, she agrees. The crimes and mysteries they investigate reveal the culture of Atlantis, its ethics and mores...and in a strange way, they may seem familiar in our own present time.
As a psychic I met with years ago said as we were having a casual conversation about the current state of affairs as I left her office, "the old Atlanteans are back, and they're up to their old tricks."
Whether you are open to "past" lives (simultaneous lives) or just want a great read that combines science fiction and detective fiction, The Casebook of Elisha Grey will give you three quick read short stories in each volume.
Go to smashwords.com (mark off the adult content filter) and you can download it on any platform for any reading device. All volumes are 2.99 each.
And as you read, think about it...is it familiar because it's based on current events, or is there a deeper familiarity?
When he needs rooms near the Temple, he visits a two bedroom flat the same day that Kiara Ptolmai, half-Atlantean and daughter of the Atlantean Ambassador to Chungkuo, visits. Neither of them can afford the flat on their own, and so they decide to share it.
Kiara Ptolmai is concentrating on her first year studies in jurisprudence at the Temple, while Elisha Grey reads lectures in a wide variety of subjects -- anthropology, crimonology, psychology, sociology, and chemistry among others. Yet he also will readily accept a request from the chief of the constabulary to help with investigating a crime, and Kiara finds that he has no hesitation about asking for her help. As she's both a diplomat's daughter and new to Atlantis, she agrees. The crimes and mysteries they investigate reveal the culture of Atlantis, its ethics and mores...and in a strange way, they may seem familiar in our own present time.
As a psychic I met with years ago said as we were having a casual conversation about the current state of affairs as I left her office, "the old Atlanteans are back, and they're up to their old tricks."
Whether you are open to "past" lives (simultaneous lives) or just want a great read that combines science fiction and detective fiction, The Casebook of Elisha Grey will give you three quick read short stories in each volume.
Go to smashwords.com (mark off the adult content filter) and you can download it on any platform for any reading device. All volumes are 2.99 each.
And as you read, think about it...is it familiar because it's based on current events, or is there a deeper familiarity?