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Summary: Gideon, you're starting to depress me.
Review: Blue Moon is John Leslie's weakest outing with his "Conch" detective Gideon Lowry. Faced with upcoming wedding of an old flame, Lowry investigates her fiancé and finds that he has a few skeletons in his closet. The problem with this mystery is you will see the ending coming very early in the book as the foreshadowing makes it blatantly obvious. Leslie still creates a wonderful setting, but Gideon's constant depression starts to wear on the reader. Hopefully this is a trend that will stop with this book and Lowry will be back on track with his next appearance.
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Summary: Gideon, you're starting to depress me.
Review: Blue Moon is John Leslie's weakest outing with his "Conch" detective Gideon Lowry. Faced with upcoming wedding of an old flame, Lowry investigates her fiancé and finds that he has a few skeletons in his closet. The problem with this mystery is you will see the ending coming very early in the book as the foreshadowing makes it blatantly obvious. Leslie still creates a wonderful setting, but Gideon's constant depression starts to wear on the reader. Hopefully this is a trend that will stop with this book and Lowry will be back on track with his next appearance.
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Summary: Great book - brought back memories of my 2 trips to key west
Review: I really enjoy continuing character mysteries and I am going to back and read Leslie's previous Gideon mysteries.
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Summary: Great book - brought back memories of my 2 trips to key west
Review: John Leslie is an extremely good novelist in the mystery genre. That is evidenced by this, his most recent work in the Gideon Lowry series. What Mr. Leslie does is stray from some of the "traditional" elements of mystery, and that makes his work simply excellent.The use of present tense in this novel (the other 3 Gideon Lowry's were written in past tense) had me guessing about the fate of PI Lowry until the very end. It is easy for me to see that Mr. Leslie had fun writing this novel. I laughed out loud when Gideon called Dave Robicheaux (James Lee Burke's character) on the telephone for assitance with the case. But that doesn't mean this book is a comedy. Rather, it is an unforgettable and enjoyable portrayal of a Conch detective trapped by his own roots. I completely enjoyed this work, as I did the other 3 Gideon Lowry books, and am anxiously waiting for more. Thanks, John Leslie. You keep writing them, and I'll keep reading them.
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Summary: John Leslie does it again!
Review: John Leslie is an extremely good novelist in the mystery genre. That is evidenced by this, his most recent work in the Gideon Lowry series. What Mr. Leslie does is stray from some of the "traditional" elements of mystery, and that makes his work simply excellent. The use of present tense in this novel (the other 3 Gideon Lowry's were written in past tense) had me guessing about the fate of PI Lowry until the very end. It is easy for me to see that Mr. Leslie had fun writing this novel. I laughed out loud when Gideon called Dave Robicheaux (James Lee Burke's character) on the telephone for assitance with the case. But that doesn't mean this book is a comedy. Rather, it is an unforgettable and enjoyable portrayal of a Conch detective trapped by his own roots. I completely enjoyed this work, as I did the other 3 Gideon Lowry books, and am anxiously waiting for more. Thanks, John Leslie. You keep writing them, and I'll keep reading them.
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