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Luuuurv Adrien!!! Jake hasn't won me over yet, but I have hope.
Note: This story is also available in Adrien English Mysteries: Fatal Shadows and A DangerousThing, a combo featuring the first two stories in the series.
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Note: This story is also available in Adrien English Mysteries: Fatal Shadows and A DangerousThing, a combo featuring the first two stories in the series.
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I finally found Jake's theme (or rather one of his themes for my head): Breathe by Erasure ...
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I've made my way through all the Adrien (that's Adrien with an e) novels and have to say this remains at the top of the list for several reasons.
First, there's a darn good mystery here - a murder that seems to have a simple explanation slowly evolves into something much more complex. Stir in hostile local law enforcement, a great cast of secondary characters with their own agendas, our man Jake riding to the rescue, and Adrien refusing to listen to his good advice, and you have the perfect reci ...more
First, there's a darn good mystery here - a murder that seems to have a simple explanation slowly evolves into something much more complex. Stir in hostile local law enforcement, a great cast of secondary characters with their own agendas, our man Jake riding to the rescue, and Adrien refusing to listen to his good advice, and you have the perfect reci ...more
This is the second book in the Adrien English mystery. Again, another great mystery. A true mystery, one that I didn't figure out until the end.
In this book Adrien runs away from his ambiguous non-relationship with Jake. He decides to go visit the house left to him by his grandmother. When he arrives there is a dead body in his driveway. Of course by the time he drives to safety and calls the police, the body is gone. He spends so time looking for the body and trying to figure out what is going ...more
In this book Adrien runs away from his ambiguous non-relationship with Jake. He decides to go visit the house left to him by his grandmother. When he arrives there is a dead body in his driveway. Of course by the time he drives to safety and calls the police, the body is gone. He spends so time looking for the body and trying to figure out what is going ...more
Suffering from a combination of writer's block and frustration over his relationship (or lack thereof) with closeted detective Jake Riordan, mystery bookstore owner, author, and reluctant amateur sleuth Adrien English decides to get away from it all by going to the Sonoran ranch he inherited from his grandmother. He hasn't been there since he was a child, but it can't be worse than LA, right?
Wrong, of course. First there's the dead body he finds in his driveway, a body that disappears when Adrie ...more
Wrong, of course. First there's the dead body he finds in his driveway, a body that disappears when Adrie ...more
The lead characters were much more well-rounded in this outing and it was great to get a better sense of them-- I still wanted to smack both of them upside the head at various points, but I was rooting for them to finally get together. I also really enjoyed the building mystery, although the ending felt a little rushed.
Wonderful audiobook!
Feb 28, 2010
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Dara
marked it as to-read
