Crop Circles, Cows, and Crazy Aliens

The Harper Files, Case 3

By: Steve Higgs

Narrated by: Jean Wilson

There are crop circles in the fields near Cliffe Woods and unexplained lights in the sky at night. Does the latest case have aliens at its core?

Of course not, because there is no such thing.

But, when a farmer hires paranormal investigator Amanda Harper to look into his glowing milk, she doesn’t sense how crazy things are about to get, and before she can even start investigating, a frozen body is found and the conspiracy theory nutters arrive to argue about the inner workings of an alien freeze ray.

Leading the bunch is none other than Jack Hammer, the handsome, self-proclaimed star of the internet show Alien Quest. He wants Amanda as a co-host to boost his ratings and won’t take no for an answer. But Amanda has other distractions, not least of which is her estranged uncle Knobhead arriving unexpectedly to offer his assistance - he was kidnapped by aliens, you know.

Amanda is going all out to solve this case, so let’s just hope the help she gets from best friend and police officer Patience Woods doesn’t slow her down too much.

Crop circles, doped cows, spacecraft sightings, and a mysterious government agency trained to repel alien invasions all combine to give Amanda Harper her toughest test yet in this funny, cozy mystery.

The Harper Files are a spin off from the Blue Moon Investigation Series where Amanda is introduced and recruited by Tempest Michaels. You can listen to this series without ever listening to the other books, but I have to raise a minor spoiler alert if you listen to these first and then go back to the Blue Moon series.

Please be aware that this audiobook contains some mild cussing and occasional sexual references. There are no elements that should be considered worthy of an R rating though.

©2018 steve higgs (P)2019 Steve John Higgs

Another Harper novella!

Enjoy these Harper novellas a lot. And this narrator was excellent.

This was a good mystery which features Harper with almost zero of the other regular characters aside from Jane doing some research, and Patience being her unique self. Lol

Worth a credit for sure. Moving on to next!

Fun book

Story and characters were likable. I’ve enjoyed all the blue moon stories very much. This one though lacked in the narrator. The main character was fine but voicing some of the others sounded like she had a frog in her throat… particularly James.

Great plot but narrator not so much

I hate writing a negative review on a great story. And this is specific for the narrator’s voice for Jane/james was awful. He/she sounded like a 50 yr old smoker, beer belly and unlit cigarette hanging from mouth. This was not the voice from the first two narrators in the series of a young computer savvy personality n. It was bad enough that I was grateful to not have the character be much involved. The other characters were ok, but that one voice almost ruined it for me, the proverbial chalk squeaking on blackboard.

Love all the books in series and hope to read/listen more.

More Please

This is more fun than the Patricia Fisher series, although all the Steve Higgs are addictive. The In the Doodoo with Voodoo reader, Jess Meadows, was excellent, really liked her Patience. Jean Wilson had a good Patience and really funny James/Jane. Please have one of these two women read the next book in the Harper series and please keep them coming!

So funny.

This was great. The protagonist is smart, independent, and knows what she wants.

I was given this audiobook by the author for free and have voluntarily left this review.