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Cliffhanger: A Cliff Knowles Mystery
Ten geocachers are invited to an exclusive all-expense paid adventure on a private island owned by the controversial new owner of the geocaching company. What could possibly go wrong? As it happens, plenty. Geocaches that are death traps. A raging storm. A friendly competition that turns not so friendly. A body. A murder? Some adventures can be too thrilling, as Cliff Knowles learns once again.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 6, 2018
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April 25, 2018
I'm a fan of the Cliff Knowles Mystery series so I purchased the book when it became available. I finished another book I was reading and started right into Cliffhanger. This book was very geocaching centric which isn't a problem as I'm a geocacher. It was an easy and engaging read that took just a couple of days on my commute to finish. Believable characters, accurate geocaching representation and an eccentric oddball with an entertaining story from start to finish.
When is the next book in the series coming out?
When is the next book in the series coming out?
June 23, 2018
Gotta cache them all...or die trying
If you are a Geocacher you have probably seen the saying: "Don't mess with Geocacher we know all the best places to hide a body" ... now take a group of 13 people out to a private island offer them prizes for FTF and find out who would cheat, lie, or kill...
As a Geocacher with a little more than 6,000 cache finds since I began caching (which isn't much to the *numbers people* - but is more than plenty for a puzzle enthusiast like me), I was glad to see the next in the Cliff Knowles' series released having more focus on Geocaching.
With only three actual chapter titles, the author used an interesting and unique way of creating stopping points for the reader: team names or individuals. It was a nicely laid out and mostly believable story (minus the all expense paid trip for a weekend), where Geocachers were selected for their various contributions to the Geocaching community (believable selections based on how members of the Geocaching community interact and choose to focus their caching experiences).
I like the unique beginning, which started with the solving of the mystery death before going into the story of how it happened... it was an interesting storyline that had all the positive and even some of the negative aspects of the game/hobby/sport/activity of Geocaching...whenever there are people involved you are going to have differences of opinion of what is "fair" or not... really though honesty and responsibility should be more important than some "supposed version of fair"... ah the things people do... hopefully it doesn't scare people away from this great outdoor activity! There are so many different reasons to Geocache, but usually solving a death isn't one of them. Cliff makes quick work of that... I think this book will do better with the Geocaching crowd who understand the addiction of finding Tupperware in the woods than your average mystery reader ...but maybe they will learn about something new and give Geocaching a try.
If you are a Geocacher you have probably seen the saying: "Don't mess with Geocacher we know all the best places to hide a body" ... now take a group of 13 people out to a private island offer them prizes for FTF and find out who would cheat, lie, or kill...
As a Geocacher with a little more than 6,000 cache finds since I began caching (which isn't much to the *numbers people* - but is more than plenty for a puzzle enthusiast like me), I was glad to see the next in the Cliff Knowles' series released having more focus on Geocaching.
With only three actual chapter titles, the author used an interesting and unique way of creating stopping points for the reader: team names or individuals. It was a nicely laid out and mostly believable story (minus the all expense paid trip for a weekend), where Geocachers were selected for their various contributions to the Geocaching community (believable selections based on how members of the Geocaching community interact and choose to focus their caching experiences).
I like the unique beginning, which started with the solving of the mystery death before going into the story of how it happened... it was an interesting storyline that had all the positive and even some of the negative aspects of the game/hobby/sport/activity of Geocaching...whenever there are people involved you are going to have differences of opinion of what is "fair" or not... really though honesty and responsibility should be more important than some "supposed version of fair"... ah the things people do... hopefully it doesn't scare people away from this great outdoor activity! There are so many different reasons to Geocache, but usually solving a death isn't one of them. Cliff makes quick work of that... I think this book will do better with the Geocaching crowd who understand the addiction of finding Tupperware in the woods than your average mystery reader ...but maybe they will learn about something new and give Geocaching a try.
November 15, 2018
I had this on the kindle app of my phone, i.e. it was available to catch a few pages here and there as I was wondering what was going to happen next. Like a geocache puzzle, why 10 hardcore cachers would attend such an event as proposed by the top guy of the website would only be known by other cachers. Up for a challenge, each came with their own claim to fame, according to Siggnal, the corporate owner. It all starts out reasonably well but we get the hint at the start it will go badly for someone. All the caches have been hidden on an island and most have cameras situated close by. The extra cameras were... well... read it and find out. Siggnal turns out to be a manipulative creep, the opposite of the cachers I know. He got just a bit "too close to the sun" and our private investigator and geocacher extraordinaire Cliff Knowles, does the investigation on the spot and proposes how the group should handle it. Really needed a map of the island to follow the escapades. An interesting read for a geocacher.
December 9, 2018
Other Cliff Knowles books have been good stories that included geocaching to varying degrees. This however is heavy on the geocaching. We enjoyed the book, as we are geocachers as well. However, think the story suffered overall as a result of it. Believable characters, think any geocacher can relate to everyone in the book! But a non-cacher may not enjoy this as much as an entry into the series. Quick read.
February 3, 2020
Not my favorite Knowles mystery
I found myself losing interest, setting the book aside, and later pushing myself to resume reading. I have enjoyed two other of his mysteries, so am willing to try another, but this one was too slow moving to hold my interest. I think there was too much devoted to the geocaching in this one.
I found myself losing interest, setting the book aside, and later pushing myself to resume reading. I have enjoyed two other of his mysteries, so am willing to try another, but this one was too slow moving to hold my interest. I think there was too much devoted to the geocaching in this one.
January 4, 2021
A group of special geocachers are invited to a party over for a long weekend with the promise of very special geocaches and prizes including a great deal of money for the top winner. Cliff is one of those geocachers. Along the way there is a murder but who did it.
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