Azalea Bluff

by Dennis Hetzel, Ed Galloway

A strange object lands on a football field.A young reporter vanishes without a trace.Olivia Claven lives in the Carolina beach community of Azalea Bluff. She’s trying to regroup, but a flooding tide of setbacks has dashed her dreams.The love of her life has died in a mysterious crash. Saddled with debt, she’s back in her parents’ house after losing multiple media jobs. The local news website she started in her hometown could fail at any time, too.Then she gets a tip that could turn things around. A mysterious object has crashed onto her high school’s football field. The authorities have sealed the area and cut communications, but she knows how to get close without being seen.She gasps as she views the odd, bell-shaped object that sits on the 50-yard line. Then she vanishes.As Olivia fights madness in captivity, her father starts a relentless search for answers, stepping into danger as he stumbles upon secrets buried in bizarre UFO stories and the rubble the Nazis left behind in the closing days of World War II.

206 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 23, 2021

Reviews

[Marssie Mencotti · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an ambitious novel with something for everyone: UFOs, Nazis, detectives, government interference, spies, desert enclaves, etc. It's hard to get it all in but Dennis Hetzel manages to do it! I found that the story I was expecting wasn't the story I got but the story I got was a good one none the less. To me it was more about a small town that just didn't know what to do with an unexplained international event and is even more confused when one of their own disappears. Lots of unexpected twists and turns make it a good read.

[Nita Gregory Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read all of Dennis' novels and he hits it out of the park - again - with this relevant mystery. I'm not normally drawn to UFO-type stories, but his attention to detail and local flavor engage you to the end. The book also causes you to reconsider everything you've ever heard about unidentified objects. Looking forward to his next project!

[Vincent I Bacchi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

Great read.
The story flows in unexpected directions.
I resisted putting the book down. Surprise ending. Read all Hetzel's books.

[Leonard Gregorio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Strange objects falling from the skies. Missing reporters. Government coverup. Is this X-Files. Suspence from beginning to end. A well written must read for sci-fi buffs.