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David R. Leng

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David R Leng is the award-winning author of the Echoes of Fortune historical conspiracy thriller series, winner of three PenCraft Awards, including Thriller of the Year and back-to-back Best Thriller honors, two Literary Titan Gold Awards, and a Kirkus Reviews "GET IT" selection.

A lifelong resident of Southwestern Pennsylvania, David grew up in the shadow of the same battlefields his characters explore. He spent summers near the Shades of Death wilderness in western Maryland and has kayaked the Youghiogheny River, where a chance encounter with a stranger carrying a metal detector and asking about Braddock's gold planted the seed for the series.

His debut novel, The Search for Braddock's Lost Gold, follows historian Jack Sullivan into the uns ...more

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Average rating: 4.47 · 338 ratings · 218 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Echoes of Fortune: Shadows Over Cozumel 4.58 avg rating — 175 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Knights of the Golden Circle (Echoes of Fortune #3)

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David Leng rated a book really liked it 24 Days by Brady Sanders (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The clue was folded under the felt A missing mall Santa in small-town Illinois, 1997, one chapter per day from December 1st to Christmas Eve. The advent gimmick could have stayed a gimmick. It doesn't. Every chapter ends on a hook and the thing genuin ...more
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David Leng has read Obligated by T.L. Stephens	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A detective hunts a man who buries people alive and films it. Then the book tells you why, and the why is the best idea in it. The murders are a campaign, built to make social media unwatchable, crater the ad revenue, and let someone buy the platform ...more
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David Leng rated a book really liked it Striking Justice, An E.J. Kane Mystery (#3) by Micheal E. Jimerson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A former Miss Texas turns up dead in 1979, and the rich husband everyone suspects walks free, because his best friend gets himself appointed special prosecutor and hangs the killing on an illiterate Black ranch hand. Forty years later, Gabe Jessup is ...more
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David Leng rated a book really liked it Echoes Through Eternity: The Living Blood: A Templar Conspiracy Thriller (The Echoes Through Eternity Saga) by Daniel Eroom	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A fast-moving Templar mystery with a compelling premise The Living Blood opens with a striking murder in Paris and quickly draws historian Gabriel Voss into a mystery involving the Knights Templar, his own family history, and the Vatican. I enjoyed th ...more
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David Leng has read Where All Your Attempts Cease: A Novel of Love and Survival on the Oregon Trail by Robert McDiarmid (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Where All Your Attempts Cease is unusually ambitious for a trail novel. Robert McDiarmid moves a single 1844 wagon train toward Oregon through a rotating cast: a grieving blacksmith and his wife, a runaway boy passing as an orphan, a French-Canadian ...more
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Sunscream is a fast, mean little beach-house slasher that knows exactly what it is, and delivers the goods more often than a book this thin on the page has any right to. Six college roommates reunite five years after graduation at a luxury Florida K ...more
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A psychological thriller that opens with a murder and then makes you spend three hundred pages inside the killer's head. Isla MacIver arrives in a Nova Scotia fishing village looking for the life she saw in a magazine at fifteen, and starts dismantli ...more
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