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May 16, 2024
Karin
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3.5 stars and opted to round up
This is another fun installment in this series--I opted to round up because I've been giving out so many 2 and 3 stars lately, but it's better than some of them (none have had less than a 3 star like from me and a few 4 stars). Once again Emily Pollifax is called to do a very simple task, but nothing she ever does turns out to be as simple as expected. There is plenty of action and adventure set in Sicily. It was fun to have Farrell (from the very first book plus a ...more
This is another fun installment in this series--I opted to round up because I've been giving out so many 2 and 3 stars lately, but it's better than some of them (none have had less than a 3 star like from me and a few 4 stars). Once again Emily Pollifax is called to do a very simple task, but nothing she ever does turns out to be as simple as expected. There is plenty of action and adventure set in Sicily. It was fun to have Farrell (from the very first book plus a ...more
Mrs. Pollifax's former colleague, John Farrell, has been hired to go to Sicily and steal a document signed by Julius Caesar. He sends an SOS while, at the same time, dodging a professional assassin whom he and Mrs. Pollifax jailed some years ago. Mrs. Pollifax, the grandmotherly karate expert who is also a member of the Garden Club, has a talent for spying. In this novel she pairs up with a freckle faced gun-toting young woman named Kate Rossiter, and goes to try and rescue her old friend Farrel
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Jan 29, 2016
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