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It's been quite a few years since my last Ava Lee adventure, but everything came back very quickly, and in the end I enjoyed this one more than the last. This time the cool-as-a-cucumber forensic accountant is investigating a high stakes art fraud and it was this subject matter, on top of the usual characteristics that make this series fun, that drew me in. Ava knows very little about fine art, so initially she's not sure about taking on the case, but she's a quick study and before we know it sh
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Urgh. I hope this is a blip, but this installment of Ava Lee was very much one long sponsored instagram post by a brand ambassador. It repeated itself over and over. It also had an unfortunate dose of "woman who is written by a man". I promise, gentlemen, that 9 times out of 10, we don't sit around in our hotel rooms in our "panties" (a horrid word), particularly if we have trackies in our suitcase.
Where the first one had these tendencies, by this third book these problem parts had ramped up an ...more
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Mar 01, 2014
Lilisa
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Another fun read, this novel which doesn’t tax the brain, is a page turner and is the perfect diversion when reading more intense and serious books. Ava Lee is taking a break vacationing in Curacao with her complicated family when she gets a call from Uncle – her business partner, informing her he needs her investigative services in China. In this third in the series book, Ava is commissioned to investigate how one of the most powerful and richest men of Wuhan was hoodwinked into purchasing seve
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Aug 15, 2024
Alexandra
marked it as to-read
