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alana
Jun 18, 2015 rated it liked it
Having recently read Black Water Rising, I was happy to encounter Jay Porter and friends once again. Pleasantville takes place fifteen years after the first book, during the mid-90s in Houston. Though this book is also steeped in politics and power struggles and big money and racial tension, I found the plot lacked some of the energy of the first. I would consider Black Water Rising to be a thriller while Pleasantville is a whodunit.

I was reading Pleasantville at the same time as Finders Keeper
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Julie
Sep 03, 2022 rated it really liked it
Loved this modern noir mystery, Locke always delivers! This would make such a great movie!
Beverly
Sep 22, 2014 rated it liked it
Shelves: mystery
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Oct 28, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: genre-adrenaline
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Jan 16, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Sep 30, 2018 rated it it was amazing