GIDEON LOWERY SERIES

In this book Gideon Lowery becomes more human to the reader by possibly falling deeply in love with the main character Gaby. In this Cross-Country caper Gideon comes in contact with families that have faced tragedy and they want revenge as well as Gideon himself. As the novel concludes it becomes so intense at the end that you start holding your breath. READ THIS BOOK !!!!!!!!!

The fourth Gideon Lowry mystery (following Love for Sale, 1997) follows the Key West PI on a quest to protect a beautiful woman in an adventure as low-key, upright and effective as the piano-playing shamus himself. Lowry may be a portly 60-year-old with colitis, but his affair 15 years earlier with chef Gabriella Wade remains a bright and warming memory. After Gaby asks him to look into the background of her new fiance, Lowry uses all his skills to find out the truth about slick Roy Emerson, whose business is vaguely described as making deals and bringing people together, and to whom the PI takes an instinctive dislike. Meanwhile, someone is trying to buy out the businesspeople and homeowners on Lowry's block to make room for yet another shopping mall. After the Cuban grocery next door is torched by an arsonist and the house Lowry has lived in for 30 years is damaged, he also starts looking for treacherous real estate schemers. Leslie juggles his subplots adroitly, neatly bringing them together in a satisfying conclusion to this tale of rampant tourism and corruption in Key West. Although less frenetic and flamboyant than the Florida noir of Carl Hiaasen, James W. Hall or Elmore Leonard, Leslie's latest delivers an atmospheric, thoughtful South Florida mystery.
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.

The Best Novel In The Series

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