Murder in Mexico

Rating:
Summary: A Good Read
Review: Agatha Christie watch out! Paul Rosner has written an absorbing mystery that has all the ingredients of a good "Christie"--interesting and well drawn-out characters, a story that is exciting and holds your attention with a dollop of humor thrown in, leading up to a suspenseful climax.

In Micheline, Rosner creates a naive, likeable heroine who never falters from a cleverly designed plot. Her mission to find her missing husband takes us on a voyage from Paris to Mexico to Houston and California that is fraught with twists and turns and contains some highly colorful and satiric characters--all designed to hold our attention and keep us in suspense. I found this a book that was hard to put down.

Rating:
Summary: A Good Read
Review: Agatha Christie watch out! Paul Rosner has written an absorbing mystery that has all the ingredients of a good "Christie"--interesting and well drawn-out characters, a story that is exciting and holds your attention with a dollop of humor thrown in, leading up to a suspenseful climax.

In Micheline, Rosner creates a naive, likeable heroine who never falters from a cleverly designed plot. Her mission to find her missing husband takes us on a voyage from Paris to Mexico to Houston and California that is fraught with twists and turns and contains some highly colorful and satiric characters--all designed to hold our attention and keep us in suspense. I found this a book that was hard to put down.

Rating:
Summary: Murder in Mexico, a classic mystery
Review: Paul Rosner's excellent mystery novel, Murder in Mexico is what used to be known as a "corker". It moves with exhilarating pace and the reader is breathless at the turns in plot and how the myriad characters relate with one another. The author is a master of dialogue, suspense, and background detail. He also knows how to be wryly amusing in the middle of very perplexing incidents that befall the novel's heroine, Micheline Sorel. She is a fairly naïve and trusting wife who is led into following her husband from Paris to Mexico to the United States when he mysteriously disappears from while on a business trip to Mexico. Looking for a trail that might shed some light on her husband's whereabouts, she meets a series of characters somehow connected to her husband's disappearance. Rosner's characters are an interesting group: they have exotic roles in life, they lie, are not who they seem to be, are murdered or disappear themselves. Micheline's search for her husband and the resolution of the plot are very clever, indeed. This is a classic of its kind: plot, characters, interesting locale, and mystery served up with incomparable talent.

Rating:
Summary: Murder in Mexico, a classic mystery
Review: Paul Rosner's excellent mystery novel, Murder in Mexico is what used to be known as a "corker". It moves with exhilarating pace and the reader is breathless at the turns in plot and how the myriad characters relate with one another. The author is a master of dialogue, suspense, and background detail. He also knows how to be wryly amusing in the middle of very perplexing incidents that befall the novel's heroine, Micheline Sorel. She is a fairly naïve and trusting wife who is led into following her husband from Paris to Mexico to the United States when he mysteriously disappears from while on a business trip to Mexico. Looking for a trail that might shed some light on her husband's whereabouts, she meets a series of characters somehow connected to her husband's disappearance. Rosner's characters are an interesting group: they have exotic roles in life, they lie, are not who they seem to be, are murdered or disappear themselves. Micheline's search for her husband and the resolution of the plot are very clever, indeed. This is a classic of its kind: plot, characters, interesting locale, and mystery served up with incomparable talent.

Rating:
Summary: Fast-Moving Plot with Lots of Unusual Characters
Review: Readers should be aware that some of the female characters in this story are characterized as being very loose in their sexual morals. The terms used to describe this circumstance are often crude.

Murder in Mexico is exactly the kind of book that you can have fun with while taking a long trip. Since the plot involves a lot of traveling, you will feel inspired to use your imagination to see fictional possibilities in the people around you. Could some of them be tailing you? Who is looking our for you? Who is your enemy? Who is in disguise?

Murder in Mexico makes good use of place to provide variety. The scenes run from De Gaulle airport outside of Paris, to the French Riviera, Houston, to various parts of Mexico, and California. If you have been to these places, the references will enrich your enjoyment. If you haven't, perhaps you will be encouraged to visit them.

The characters are very extreme in their qualities. As such, they will almost seem like caricatures. However, the way they are portrayed gives them vividness that will flood your emotions with everything from apprehension to fear to reassurance.

The plot is the centerpiece of Murder in Mexico, building from a poignant moment in the airport. A three-year married couple is about to be parted for the first time on an extended basis. Communication will be difficult, and clearly their lives will change. But they look forward to be reunited when the husband's work at a new auto plant in Mexico is completed. Before long, uncharacteristic messages and confusions start to take place. What is a devoted young wife to think . . . and do? Soon, she is over-her-head in complications which she faces with a great courage born of dedication and faith in her love.

The plot neatly resolves itself, having raised and answered many mysteries along the way. For my taste, the plot was overly complicated to be totally satisfying. Mysterious events are often more interesting if the reader has to keep stewing in the same areas rather than constantly being thrown new issues to consider.

I was pleased to see the way Mr. Rosner used the plot to develop the character of his heroine, Micheline. You will feel like you know her well and like her before the book ends.

Mr. Rosner's writing style is simple and appealing, and draws you into the story. He scatters his clues in ways that draw attention to the connections you should be making, so that you can more easily decipher the plot's mysteries.

I found myself starting the book late at night and staying up until 1 a.m. to complete it. Few novels draw me in that well.

After you finish enjoying this book, think about your assumptions about other people. How do you decide whom you can trust? How do you decide what you can trust them about? What do you assume that you know about other people, that you may not know.

Check your assumptions before acting!

Rating:
Summary: Fast-Moving Plot with Lots of Unusual Characters
Review: Readers should be aware that some of the female characters in this story are characterized as being very loose in their sexual morals. The terms used to describe this circumstance are often crude.

Murder in Mexico is exactly the kind of book that you can have fun with while taking a long trip. Since the plot involves a lot of traveling, you will feel inspired to use your imagination to see fictional possibilities in the people around you. Could some of them be tailing you? Who is looking our for you? Who is your enemy? Who is in disguise?

Murder in Mexico makes good use of place to provide variety. The scenes run from De Gaulle airport outside of Paris, to the French Riviera, Houston, to various parts of Mexico, and California. If you have been to these places, the references will enrich your enjoyment. If you haven't, perhaps you will be encouraged to visit them.

The characters are very extreme in their qualities. As such, they will almost seem like caricatures. However, the way they are portrayed gives them vividness that will flood your emotions with everything from apprehension to fear to reassurance.

The plot is the centerpiece of Murder in Mexico, building from a poignant moment in the airport. A three-year married couple is about to be parted for the first time on an extended basis. Communication will be difficult, and clearly their lives will change. But they look forward to be reunited when the husband's work at a new auto plant in Mexico is completed. Before long, uncharacteristic messages and confusions start to take place. What is a devoted young wife to think . . . and do? Soon, she is over-her-head in complications which she faces with a great courage born of dedication and faith in her love.

The plot neatly resolves itself, having raised and answered many mysteries along the way. For my taste, the plot was overly complicated to be totally satisfying. Mysterious events are often more interesting if the reader has to keep stewing in the same areas rather than constantly being thrown new issues to consider.

I was pleased to see the way Mr. Rosner used the plot to develop the character of his heroine, Micheline. You will feel like you know her well and like her before the book ends.

Mr. Rosner's writing style is simple and appealing, and draws you into the story. He scatters his clues in ways that draw attention to the connections you should be making, so that you can more easily decipher the plot's mysteries.

I found myself starting the book late at night and staying up until 1 a.m. to complete it. Few novels draw me in that well.

After you finish enjoying this book, think about your assumptions about other people. How do you decide whom you can trust? How do you decide what you can trust them about? What do you assume that you know about other people, that you may not know.

Check your assumptions before acting!