The storyline itself, a kind of treasure hunt, was fairly decent, but there are several reasons this book received only two stars from me. The start of this adventure was totally unbelievable: an unwitting woman being abducted from her place of business by a man who is sure she can solve the clu...
I quit this book at page 60. I tried hanging in there to see if it improved once they actually get out into the jungle/archaeological site/whatever but gave up at "he chucked my chin." The heroine is such a feeb. I struggled get this far. The characters never made sense to me. That's not precisel...
It was a bright warm June in Long Beach, in 2001, the year of our Lord Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the moments before I was to lay my hot hands on this prodigy. At seven p.m., the California sky loomed clear, sapphire, cloudless; down below, the city’s shining boulevards teemed with slim-limbed so...