Island Casualty (An Andy Veracruz Mystery) - Softcover

Ransdell, D. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610091434 ISBN 13: 9781610091435

Verlag: Dark Oak Mysteries, 2014

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When Andy Veracruz heads to Greece for a sex holiday, the guilt-ridden mariachi player expects to spend afternoons swimming and nights making love. He never expects to get wrapped up in a dark family history that involves the whole town. Andy starts doing undercover work, substituting in a bouzouki band, but the more he becomes entangled in the complicated web that connects the island’s inhabitants, the more he realizes he must rip apart the whole story before he’ll be free to go back home. === “I love the characters here, and the descriptions make the scenes jump off the page. When you read a book and the scenes unroll in front of you like a movie, then you know it’s something good.” —Elaine Joyce, author of Dead Men Do Tell Tales === D.R. Ransdell writes from Tucson, Arizona, where she enjoys good swimming weather most of the year. During the school season she teaches composition to international students at the University of Arizona. She also moonlights in a mariachi band, which gives her plenty of ideas for murder victims. When vacation starts, she hits the road, leaving behind several mischievous cats. One of her favorite travel destinations is Greece, where each island offers a new favorite beach and she can spend long nights listening to bouzouki music.

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Editorial Reviews: Readers of D.R. Ransdell’s Mariachi Murders have no doubt been waiting for the second installment in her series of Andy Veracruz mysteries. With the publication of her latest work,Island Casualty, she doesn’t disappoint. In the newest installment, Veracruz finds himself again “neck deep” in mystery and intrigue on the Greek island of Amiros. Weaving crisp dialogue and artfully descriptive detail in with fast moving, shadowy narrative, Ransdell carries the reader along in another enjoyable read. -- John Paddison, author of China Photos and Reflections === Island Casualty starts out as typical murder mystery set in the Dodecanese Islands. The setting is described with artistic flare; the characters are three-dimensional; and the plot has plenty of twists and turns. Then slowly the plot turns into a morality play and the protagonist Andy Veracuz as “Everyman.” The net result is the reader has to look at right and wrong in a new way and in the process learns a lot about Greek culture and perhaps herself. --J. L. Greger, author of Ignore the Pain === In Island Casualty, the second Andy Veracruz mystery, Andy accepts the invitation of a friend who is working at a taverna on a Greek island. He’s hoping Rachel can help him forget the one he could not save, but life on a small island is much different from life in Squid Bay. Instead of a relaxing vacation, Andy finds secret engagements and crazy wives. As the savior of everyone except himself, Andy is soon involved in it all, but justice is not always black and white. I love the characters here, and the descriptions make the scenes jump off the page. When you read a book and the scenes unroll in front of you like a movie, then you know it’s something good. Elaine Joyce, author of Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dark Oak Mysteries
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1610091434
• ISBN 13: 9781610091435
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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