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Summary: An average mystery
Review: This seems to be one out of a series of novels about Inspector Alvarez, a police official in a scenic backwater area taken over by moderately wealthy retirees. The beginnings of the novel seem a little disjointed while the reader figures out who is who, and what the story is about. Without reading previous novels in the series, the reader is left at sea in determining relationships between Alvarez and other characters. Alvarez's main interests in life seem to be food and brandy.The story is about the idle rich. An older man has a much younger wife who is cheating on him. An older woman keeps a younger man as a boy toy, and he is cheating on her (he also cheats on the other woman). There is a complex swindle, attempted murder, and murder. Alvarez seems to bumble about a bit as he solves the case. There is a long-winded oration as Alvarez confronts the main suspect (one of those things authors insert to explain a case). Overall, it is a relatively short novel of 176 pages, and is suitable for light reading for a long airline trip or a rainy evening at home.
Rating:
Summary: An average mystery
Review: This seems to be one out of a series of novels about Inspector Alvarez, a police official in a scenic backwater area taken over by moderately wealthy retirees. The beginnings of the novel seem a little disjointed while the reader figures out who is who, and what the story is about. Without reading previous novels in the series, the reader is left at sea in determining relationships between Alvarez and other characters. Alvarez's main interests in life seem to be food and brandy. The story is about the idle rich. An older man has a much younger wife who is cheating on him. An older woman keeps a younger man as a boy toy, and he is cheating on her (he also cheats on the other woman). There is a complex swindle, attempted murder, and murder. Alvarez seems to bumble about a bit as he solves the case. There is a long-winded oration as Alvarez confronts the main suspect (one of those things authors insert to explain a case). Overall, it is a relatively short novel of 176 pages, and is suitable for light reading for a long airline trip or a rainy evening at home.
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