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Summary: The Texas Two Step
Review: The Widowers Two Step is everything you could want in a mystery. The hero, practicing P.I. ' Tres Navarre' is one funny guy, some of his encounters with various 'Texans' are laugh out funny. Using Texas as a backdrop, each page comes alive as Tres moves about the state investigating and getting into peoples hair.The story Tres finds himself involved in concerns a missing demo, a demo so important that people are prepared to kill for it. The paces quickens as the missing demo leads to some more and more dire situations. Author Rick Riordan's dialogue crackles, Tres's 'friends' are truely memorable, and his enemies uniquely sinister. Tres is cut from the same cloth as Robert Crias 'Elvis Cole' and a long lost relative of Chandler's 'Phillip Marlow'. He's a hero with a heart of gold, a loner looking for something more. Believe the hype this guy can write! Highly Recommended
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Summary: The Texas Two Step
Review: The Widowers Two Step is everything you could want in a mystery. The hero, practicing P.I. ' Tres Navarre' is one funny guy, some of his encounters with various 'Texans' are laugh out funny. Using Texas as a backdrop, each page comes alive as Tres moves about the state investigating and getting into peoples hair. The story Tres finds himself involved in concerns a missing demo, a demo so important that people are prepared to kill for it. The paces quickens as the missing demo leads to some more and more dire situations. Author Rick Riordan's dialogue crackles, Tres's 'friends' are truely memorable, and his enemies uniquely sinister. Tres is cut from the same cloth as Robert Crias 'Elvis Cole' and a long lost relative of Chandler's 'Phillip Marlow'. He's a hero with a heart of gold, a loner looking for something more. Believe the hype this guy can write! Highly Recommended
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Summary: Keep it up Mr. Riordan
Review: This is another well crafted tale from Rick Riordan, the creator of Tres Navarre. In "The Widower's Two Step" we are once again presented with colorful characters moving through the eclectic mosaic of cultures that is the make up of South Texas. This one has it all folks, music, sex, betrayal, bad guys & punks getting their come uppance... I am eagerly looking forward to the next in the series. Will Tres really have to get a day job? If he does, will he still be able to save damsels in distress in his spare time?
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Summary: This was a great book
Review: this was a great book. the writing is funny and exciting. the narrator has a great attitude and i love him.
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Summary: Should Have Been Longer
Review: Tres is a great character. The first two books were much more enjoyable. In this novel the story gets mired and there was just too many loose ends. The book should have been longer with a better resolution...
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Summary: Have to love a PI with a PhD in English
Review: Tres Navarre is a PI in training that I want to read more about. He has good support too in his friend, Ralph (maybe a Latino Hawk?). I even liked Tres' Mother, and his cat. What I didn't like was tres having to take a 4-year old on surveillance. This was a job for which Tres' boss was getting paid, even though the 4-year old is adorable, this was too cutesy. The worst thing in the book is probably a minor detail to most people but it really bugged me. The fact that Tres is constantly being threatened with various punishments for working without a license. Mostly in ths book he is working for his friend, Milo, a lawyer. Unless Texas is different from most states, One does not need a PI license to investigate for a lawyer.But it is not clear that Milo is licensed in Texas. Anyway this is a minor glitz, if any, since surely Tres will have his license in the next book.... If you like PI's this one is pretty good.
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