- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Berkley (MM) (April 15 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0425175065
- ISBN-13: 978-0425175064
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,935,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A good beach read - literally and figuratively,
By Carol Peterson Hennekens (Colorado Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death Dances To A Reggae Beat (Paperback)
Kelly Ryan is living the island life. She's general manager for the island's radio station, participates in the local effort to help nesting turtles and has a nice guy in life. Then things start to go wrong. She inherits the chairmanship of the local parade committee. Her boyfriend goes skiing and never comes back. Then the most obnoxious member of her committee, a recent arrival and know-it-all, is found murdered on the turtle's nesting beach. Kelly isn't planning to investigate a murder but curiosity gets the best of her.While this is not classic literature, it is a fun and light departure for the genre. It even managed nominations for best first novel from both the Agatha and MacCavity folks. It also garnished an Anthony best paperback nomination. I enjoyed the setting which Grilley uses well with only a couple of boring tourist lectures. She gives us "continentals" a vicarous insight into really living on an island. The plot is so-so at best with too few real contenders for the killer (tho the reason for the killing is pretty clever). Bottom-line: a tropical cozy for your beach or poolside reading OR save it for a snowstorm when you need a mental vacation.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Story Exotic Background,
By Moe811 (New York USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death Dances To A Reggae Beat (Paperback)
Kelly Ryan is a transplanted Chicagoan living on an island in the Caribbean. She runs the island's radio station and has the annual island birthday parade dumped on her. It doesn't help, that her boyfriend dumps her and her ex-husband is getting married again. A tourist with a know it all attitude ends up getting murdered and Kelly finds herself trying to find out who did it.I enjoyed this book. It makes a wonderful beach book, and the author has left plenty of plot lines dangling for sequels.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Horrible! Hopelessly contrived attempt at humor; very boring,
By A Customer
This review is from: Death Dances To A Reggae Beat (Paperback)
What a waste! The author tried hard to be funny, but fell far short of the mark. It was ridiculously unfunny, a very dull mystery. It might (might!) have been okay if the author hadn't tried so hard to make every paragraph witty, but it was a complete and total waste of both time and money.
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