BLURB:
Why
is CIA officer George Branson dead in Dubai? It looks like straight detective
work, finding out what George has been up to and why he’s dead, but when former
CIA analyst Lee Carruthers arrives in Dubai, she walks into a deadly war
between two rival Merchants of Death vying for market share. She learns that
George has worked for each man under a different name. With his own, that gives
George three identities. Which man is dead? Has George really been working for
the Agency, or has he sold out and, if so, to whom? Who are the men following
her? And why does she keep finding diamonds?
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My Review:
One word can sum up this book....amazing! I loved every second. Filled with enough twists and turns, mystery and action to keep you guessing and your heart pounding. I think I have a found another amazing author to add to my favorites list. “Dead In Dubai” is the 2nd book in the Lee Carruthers series published by Artemis Hunter Press and is not one to be missed. I did not get to read the first book, but honestly there was enough background given that I did not feel lost. I adored taking this walk through Istanbul with these characters and trying to unravel the mystery with them of international terror and criminal activity. The only thing I felt this book lacked with a good thriller is some actual violence, I was kind of disappointed on that front. Other than that, I would recommend this book for anyone that enjoys a fast paced page turner, that has tough female characters, with no sexual references.
Enjoy this Excerpt:
The café on the first floor of the Luxe charged a king’s
ransom for a hamburger and fries.
“It’s a good thing you’re getting paid in diamonds,” Fred
said.
After lunch we strolled in the mall. Natalie’s travel agency
was still closed, but workmen were putting in a new window. We decided we might
as well walk on their beach while we could use it for free. We strolled to the
waterline, past the tourists rubbing sunscreen on each other, past the lovers
walking hand-in-hand, past the children building castles in the sand, the
afternoon sun casting small shadows in front of us.
I looked up at the sound of a small plane, a private jet
climbing west into the sun. It was a pretty little thing with a nose like an
insect. I stopped to look at it, and as I watched, the little insect exploded
into a ball of flame, and debris twinkled down into the Gulf like fragments of
a spent firework.
Fred and I looked at each other, and instinctively I moved
closer to him. He put his arm around me, and I put my face into his shoulder,
shuddering. Sunbathers rushed to the water’s edge, the women screaming and
picking up their children.
“I’ve seen a plane like that before, Lee,” he said. “It’s a
Gulfstream. Natalie Malyakov owns a Gulfstream.”
Before all the debris had finished hitting the water, the
beach was filled with people who had come from everywhere to stand and gawk.
Disgusted, I turned away.
“Come on, Fred, let’s go,” I said.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Marilynn
Larew has had a lot of variety in her life. She lived in six states and two
foreign countries before settling down in southern Pennsylvania. She went to
twelve schools before she graduated from high school and two more before she
finished her PhD in history. Moving around so much, she found the public
library a refuge and her library card a magic carpet to foreign lands. She
taught for some years in the University System of Maryland, courses such as US
history, architectural history, the history of terrorism, and Vietnamese
military history. She also worked in historic preservation and wrote two books
of local history about Bel Air, the county seat of Harford County in Maryland.
She writes
what she likes to read – thrillers that are located in foreign countries. She
likes to collect cookbooks on foreign cuisines and often cooks from them.
She’s
married, with two children, two grandchildren, and a new great granddaughter.
She lives with her husband on the Mason-Dixon line in southern Pennsylvania in
a two hundred-year-old brick farmhouse.
She’s a
member of the Sisters in Crime, the Guppies, and the Chinese Military History
Society.
Links:
website: www.marilynnlarew.com
twitter:
https://twitter.com/marilynn_larew
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marilynn.larew
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