This one is several books into the Queen & Country series, of which I have not read but one, this one. Spy thriller, starring Tara Chase. Lots of action!
P.I. Stuart Winter is hired to find out what happened to a deaf girl. An interesting charactor works at the S.F. P.L. Interesting info about the deaf, and gorillas, and birding
QUOTE:
"I have observed in htis world that there are three types of people. There are the cleaners, and there are those that make a mess, and then there are those who are weathervanes." "Weathervanes?" "Spinning whatever direction the wind blows." [sic] Weathervanes constitute the bulk of our race. They wait for circumstance to change them. They never change circumstances. They never even think of changing it. They'll march for peace. They'll also be part of a lynch mob."
Crime writer Maryelizabeth Line comes to San Diego to find out if someone is recreating the murders from her first book. A highly recommended crime story.
Hotelier Am Caulfield takes on murder and Japanese at the Hotel California. A very good story! Just as good in the second reading, too! Just as good in the third reading, too!!
Read:
4/2001
Read:
3/2006
Words I Had To Look Up:
truckle (pg. 284) -- Yield to out of weakness. kusou (pg. 274) -- Kuso is a Japanese curse word. Mispelled?
Rooster Franklin goes to Kansas City to restart romance with old lover. Fourth book in series. Rooster doesn't seem to remember he already knows Rick Meza from book three, at least...
Ned recounts the history of his relationship with his adventurous father in Mohawk, New York. Very good story, but took a long time to read.
Quote:
He was from the western half of Pennsylvania, "practically Ohio," and you couldn't grow up that close to Ohio with being Ohio. Ohio was that pervasive. Next to Iowa, she couldn't think of a worse influence. --page 309
Harry Silver ferryies a woman and to men to the not-a-planet of Maracanda where things are not always what one would expect. LATER: Whats with the typos?