Big Black Dog In Vallarta
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- 2,99 €
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- 2,99 €
Publisher Description
Hoping to prevent her best friend's suicide, Sydney Reardon rushes to Puerto Vallarta where she becomes entangled with witchcraft, a handsome Gringo lawyer, a New York cop, a huge black dog-and murder. This book, one of a series, was a selection of the Mystery Book Club. Her other books, also from Sunstone Press, are "Little Green Man in Ireland" and "Three Deadly Days in Spain." Mary Branham was assistant director of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Having bought numerous thick books at airport shops and left them on the plane unfinished, she determined to write a series of books that could be enjoyed on a flight of reasonable length and call them "airplane books." * * * *
"It is a challenge to develop characters and action in such a narrow framework, but Mary Branham successfully integrates some interesting characters around Maude's personality, which permeates the entire story. Mary Branham obeys one of the adages of writing: 'write what you know.' Her descriptions of Puerto Vallarta are interesting and show that she has spent considerable time there. She also does a nice job of working in a few side stories to keep the plot moving-big on dialog and relaxing for the brain." -The Midwest Book Review * * * *
LIBRARY JOURNAL reported: "Memorable characters, slick dialog, and almost whimsical settings make this a delightful short read...." -Library Journal
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her second outing (after Little Green Man in Ireland, 1997), jet-set decorator Sydney Reardon flits from place to fashionable place, enjoying vapid chats with supporting characters, gushing relentlessly about food and decor and trying not to let murder interfere with lunch. Sydney is urgently invited to Puerto Vallarta by her longtime friend Maude Adams, who plans to commit suicide. Maude has a heart ailment and prefers to make her own exit rather than deteriorate until her natural death. But at her lavish "going away" party, she is stabbed to death. Suspicion falls on beneficiaries of her will: son Rob, who thinks he was shortchanged; lawyer Hale Hoard, who collected unexpected riches; and Sydney herself, who got money and Corn Dog, Maude's large black chow chow. The story's suspense is numbed a bit by the chattering, idle characters, although the brevity and lightness of the effort are intentional: according to the publisher, Branham deliberately set out to write a series of mysteries that could be "enjoyed" on an airplane flight "of reasonable length."