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5 stars for The Seven Year Glitch by DT Mularkey #thriller #mystery #bookreview #mustread

  • Writer: N. N. Light
    N. N. Light
  • Jul 1
  • 3 min read

Title: The Seven Year Glitch

Author: DT Mularkey

Genre: Thriller

 

Book Blurb:

 

You’ll be dead by Sunday...


A week before the finale at Drake’s Resort where obscenely wealthy gamblers bet their fortunes and their faces, Ledger Warren, a wealthy Virgin Islands resort owner, receives a note announcing he’ll be dead in days. Equally distracting, a gorgeous dead ringer for the love of his life mysteriously appears, sending his paranoia skyrocketing while ripping open wounds of family betrayal. With no family or close friends and a shady partner with an expiring contract, Warren is suspicious of everyone. Who is threatening him: a resort guest, an angry gambler who lost it all, or an employee with an axe to grind? Perhaps someone from his checkered past will strike before he flees his own private paradise. Can he amass his biggest casino payoff, evade being killed, and escape his private island with his life?

 

My Review:

 

Imagine the wealthiest of the wealthy, put together in a room for one evening, playing a high-stakes game called “Chairs,” where fortunes and lives could change in the blink of an eye.

 

If that were the only plotline in DT Mularkey’s The Seven Year Glitch, it would have been enough to keep me on the edge of my seat. But that’s only one of several, all interlacing throughout the novel, and dove tailing in an amazing twist at the end.

 

During the yearly “Chairs” games, resort owner Ledger Warren receives a death threat. The resort is packed with not only those in the game, called “Players,” but individuals who love to watch the high intensity activity.

 

The author cleverly introduces us to the game’s participants, as well as staff members. An author is interviewing them for a future book. These question-and-answer sessions showcase the suspects, and highlights the author’s talent for writing well-rounded characters.

 

The Seven Year Glitch defies genres. It takes the best from different styles. The story’s murder mystery is reminiscent of Agatha Christie. The introduction of a device called the Gizmo, is straight from H. G. Wells, and the romantic element has hints of Nora Roberts.

 

DT Mularkey has written a unique story that will keep you turning the pages. The title says this is book one in her series. I’m looking forward to the next book.

 

My Rating: 5 stars

 

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Author Biography:

 

Dona was born in Warrensburg, Missouri, but moved three weeks later. It set a pattern for her life. She grew up in Florida, Japan, Massachusetts, California, and North Carolina. She was the first female engineering graduate from UNC-Charlotte. She now lives in Texas.

 

Dona Mularkey’s first published books were textbooks for the classes she taught at Southern Methodist University while teaching mechanical engineering. During her twenty years at SMU she also authored a cookbook with a friend and an inspirational book with a military theme.

 

During her time at SMU, Dona became interested in promoting engineering to girls as a career path. Her ideas about the ideal age kids to focus on kept changing from high school to middle school and then to elementary school. She realized one day the toys her two-year-old grandson played with were simple machines. This led her to write stories introducing kids to engineering through simple machines.

 

Dr. Mularkey went from professor to writer of novels during her retirement. Her first thriller The Seven Year Glitch, published in 2024, introduced Ledger Warren. His resort on Drake’s Key catered to the obscenely rich people bet their fortunes for a chance to change lives with someone else. The follow-up novel The Dead Return will publish in 2025.

 

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Reviewed by: Terry

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