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Last Flower
Bit by bit, Leslie Parker is putting together the pieces of her damaged life … until … she’s asked to throw everything away to play a part in saving the world.
Keeping crazy busy with her flower and gardening service is key to Leslie’s plans to push aside the haunting memory of an unthinkable betrayal. If not for Caroline Miller, her activist best friend, Leslie would never stray far from the comfort of her day-to-day routine.
After she finds safe solitude, Leslie’s life shatters again — a savage assault, a murder, and FBI accusations of theft of classified biotechnology data entangle her in a web of intrigue.
Looking for answers to why she’s a suspect for crimes she didn’t commit, Leslie joins forces with a tabloid newspaper reporter. Fleeing from Chicago, the unlikely duo travel to the Gulf Coast to pursue a lead to clear Leslie’s name.
While digging into a report of the vandalization of a biotech research laboratory, the amateur sleuths uncover a dark mystery from the 1970s. Clues from their grim discovery embroil Leslie in a twenty-first-century government conspiracy, bioweapon development, and the festering distrust between the People’s Republic of China and the United States.
Half the world away, an unknown disease kills everyone in a remote African village. The rainforest tragedy blips off the international news radar, lost in the uncertainty of the lingering COVID-19 pandemic. But the mysterious event escalates tensions between superpower countries. Chinese-American relations plummet to scorched-earth peril — sending two Chinese soldiers on a quest to China’s Great Dragon Mountains on the border with Siberia to find answers.
Last Flower is a sprawling, slow-burn novel crammed with unexpected humor, a touch of romance, thought-provoking twists, and nightmarish possibilities that leave readers wondering … Could this be the future?
The novel Last Flower is recommended for fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, and other page-turner thrillers with mature content featuring damaged women protagonists regaining their power.
Keeping crazy busy with her flower and gardening service is key to Leslie’s plans to push aside the haunting memory of an unthinkable betrayal. If not for Caroline Miller, her activist best friend, Leslie would never stray far from the comfort of her day-to-day routine.
After she finds safe solitude, Leslie’s life shatters again — a savage assault, a murder, and FBI accusations of theft of classified biotechnology data entangle her in a web of intrigue.
Looking for answers to why she’s a suspect for crimes she didn’t commit, Leslie joins forces with a tabloid newspaper reporter. Fleeing from Chicago, the unlikely duo travel to the Gulf Coast to pursue a lead to clear Leslie’s name.
While digging into a report of the vandalization of a biotech research laboratory, the amateur sleuths uncover a dark mystery from the 1970s. Clues from their grim discovery embroil Leslie in a twenty-first-century government conspiracy, bioweapon development, and the festering distrust between the People’s Republic of China and the United States.
Half the world away, an unknown disease kills everyone in a remote African village. The rainforest tragedy blips off the international news radar, lost in the uncertainty of the lingering COVID-19 pandemic. But the mysterious event escalates tensions between superpower countries. Chinese-American relations plummet to scorched-earth peril — sending two Chinese soldiers on a quest to China’s Great Dragon Mountains on the border with Siberia to find answers.
Last Flower is a sprawling, slow-burn novel crammed with unexpected humor, a touch of romance, thought-provoking twists, and nightmarish possibilities that leave readers wondering … Could this be the future?
The novel Last Flower is recommended for fans of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, and other page-turner thrillers with mature content featuring damaged women protagonists regaining their power.
905 pages, ebook
Published October 21, 2021
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January 16, 2022
The Longest Blooming Flower
Okay. I made it -- all 905 pages, and at times I cursed, I laughed, I marveled at the depth and breadth of knowledge and the rank ability to hold so many and so heavy ideas in the air. In the end, oddly enough, I cried. I don't do that. The slightest disturbance, misspelling, piece of illogic, or mistake freaked me out because this verbose hyper intelligent proud and foolish book razored over every book proud nerve I have. That is a fine and close shave.
It is worth it. Ridiculously long and involved, the wind up required all of it. Reprising a situation or fact pattern perhaps, could have been omitted, should have been omitted, but still minor. Whoever you are, I would like to meet you. I am buying your book, even though I've read it for free because you earned it, kid. The only think missing is Eroica, which, if you read the ENTIRE opus, you'll know EXACTLY what I mean. Otherwise, all auteurs, eat your heart out. Niklas III, spaseba. Ochen xorosho. Please don't stop now.
Okay. I made it -- all 905 pages, and at times I cursed, I laughed, I marveled at the depth and breadth of knowledge and the rank ability to hold so many and so heavy ideas in the air. In the end, oddly enough, I cried. I don't do that. The slightest disturbance, misspelling, piece of illogic, or mistake freaked me out because this verbose hyper intelligent proud and foolish book razored over every book proud nerve I have. That is a fine and close shave.
It is worth it. Ridiculously long and involved, the wind up required all of it. Reprising a situation or fact pattern perhaps, could have been omitted, should have been omitted, but still minor. Whoever you are, I would like to meet you. I am buying your book, even though I've read it for free because you earned it, kid. The only think missing is Eroica, which, if you read the ENTIRE opus, you'll know EXACTLY what I mean. Otherwise, all auteurs, eat your heart out. Niklas III, spaseba. Ochen xorosho. Please don't stop now.
October 27, 2022
I give myself 4 stars for reading this to the end. its LOOOONNNGGG. To many characters and why??
the gang was "roll you eyes" necessary? The concept of the story was good but went south way to many times. I would NOT recommend this book
the gang was "roll you eyes" necessary? The concept of the story was good but went south way to many times. I would NOT recommend this book
March 29, 2022
book was too long and not my things did not actually finish it.
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