Blue Moon Investigations Two Book Starter Set

Paranormal Nonsense & The Phantom of Barker Mill in one Volume

By: Steve Higgs

Narrated by: Peter Fullagar

The paranormal? It’s all nonsense, but proving it might get them killed

In the brooding, dark landscape of England, with its rolling hills and forgotten castles, the dark breeds evil in every shadow. Well, almost every shadow. Some of them have stupid in them instead.

With thousands of books sold, the Blue Moon Investigations series will grip you from the start and rob you of sleep as you continue listening until well after your bedtime.

When Steve Higgs writes, he hits it out of the park! I find myself laughing loud and often.

Paranormal Nonsense - falsely advertised as a paranormal investigator, Tempest Michaels has a serial killing vampire to track down and a poltergeist to catch...because he’s staked his reputation on proving none of it is real.

Helped by disillusioned cop, Amanda Harper, the duo is not only pitted against a brotherhood of vampire wannabes, but also a desperately ticking clock when one of his friends is taken.

He’s got all the help he could need and more, though, as his friends, his mum, and his dogs are pitching in!

The Phantom of Barker Mill - a hundred-year-old mystery proves irresistible for England’s only paranormal P.I. It looks like the perfect case...but someone, or perhaps everyone is lying to him.

As he closes in on the truth, he is led into a race against time that may cost him more than he is willing to pay.

Oh, and his mum wants him to organize a baby shower.

If you are a fan of fast-paced paranormal thrillers, then this urban fantasy series is sure to please.

©2020 Steve Higgs (P)2020 Steve Higgs

Two books of paranormal events

Tempest Michaels opens a private investigation agency, but the newspaper ad is miss-written as paranormal detective agency. In Paranormal Nonsense, Tempest investigates several cases but the biggest is a Vampire Club. He meets Amanda, a police officer.
In The Phantom of Barker Mill, Tempest deals with glowing spectral dogs and a phantom wreaking havoc in a steel mill. Amanda wants to work as an investigator with Tempest, and she puts her notice in at work. Tempest is really attracted to Amanda, but she gets involved with the Barker Mill heir.
The author is English and uses British English in writing. There is quite a bit of conversation involving sexual topics and encounters.
I found the stories interesting. It might be nice if the main characters weren't so caught up in thinking and talking about sex. It doesn't add anything to the story for me.
I received an audiobook code from the author.

Blue Moon Fun

Overall the stories are good and the cast of characters are easy to like. Too much fat shaming but overall a good listen. Unfortunately the quality of the recording isn’t great. You can hear the bland reader bumping the mic a lot.

Entertaining

The stories are cute, and the characters are likable. The narrator sounds younger than the narrator on the next books in the series. But the recordings seem to be cheaply done because the background noises are very evident.

Narration needs polishing…

The story is good. The main character is a little fat phobic but I can get past that. The narration… you can hear ambulances, his chair, static. I swear I even heard a fart. The narrator is fine but he needed to be in a better location or someone needed to run it through Descript on Studio Sound to remove some of that background noise. So distracting!

fantastic and entertaining

love to story's tho the background noise was distracting, highway in the background can hear cars pass, sirens and bodily noises🙄

I laughed out loud

Great story, funny predicaments, and a truly charming para normal detective with two spunky dachshunds to share his life.

Surprisingly Funny

A bit different, being the first book I've listened to narrated by a British accent, but was a great story and funny. As a fellow Dachshund owner, it was great.

Don't judge by this, give it a shot

I have tried books 4 and 13 already and want to stick with the series in the hopes of enjoying the rest as I did those two.

This set of two books has a different narrator from the ones I've already tried. He is really bad. Slow.and.plod.ding. Kinda like the guy in the eye drop commercials.

Book 1 has Tempest being over-the-top judgmental (people are fat, butt ugly, poor and on the dole because they're lazy, etc) and Big Ben's dialogue is uncomfortably focused on detailed sex acts (despite the bit on the Amazon pages that states "The Blue Moon Investigation series features male and female leads, no graphic sex and very little cussing").

I have not gotten to book 2 yet. I wanted to make this review while I had my thoughts in mind.

BUT I suggest you stick with the series because by book 4 at least, possibly sooner, the series picks up and is much better. And book 13 is terrific.

Story line let down by the production quality

I have never before had a problem with the production of an audible book before but this one was the first. I liked the story but it was distracting when I could emergency vehicles in the background and knew it was because the recording took place in a studio without sufficient sound-proofing. Also the pause between chapters has an odd timing and more than once I thought that something was wrong. The premise of the story was interesting but I don’t think I will try the next one in the series.

Opportunities exist

I believe Peter Fullagar sapped out every exciting element with British Wasp nonchalance. It’s a gift. As far at the books themselves…I liked that every other paragraph wasn’t a complete sexual act, however I could do with fewer Mr. Wriggly references. I like the time date reference, but feel it would be a stronger audio book with that in the chapter title. I enjoy the concept Higgs was shooting for…but ultimately it’s just a private eyes with no Noir….it needs Noir.