Books by Chris Ewan
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review 1: A fast paced crime mystery. Rob an heating engineer is called out to repair a faulty boiler. There he meets Lena who asks him to take her on a bike ride. Unfortunately they have an accident, Rob is taken to hospital but no one has seen Lena, she has disappeared and no-one believe...
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review 1: Sadly, I found this novel to be quite underwhelming. I didn't really like the protagonist, and despite the hundred and one characters and plot lines it seemed to move too slowly for me. Instead of being a clever web of intrigue it seemed more like a messy trail of conflicting plo...
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review 1: Not sure if it's because this was set in Venice or not but I liked this one in the series the best. Victoria is involved but to a lesser extend than before but it's in a good way. This story revolves around a convoluted request by a mystery woman for Charlie to 'return' somethi...
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review 1: I was listening to this on audio but I didn't finish it before it was due and had to erase it from my device. Apparently I cannot keep overdue audiobooks. Oh we'll. it was fun but I guess not engaging enough. But maybe that is not fair of me to say and it's just my fault for no...
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review 1: Written in a fun voice (rounded up, think 3 1/2 stars is better rating), with laughs and a quality plot that has an unique and kind of a moral dilemma ending! I am not the type of person who reads mystery books to find out who did it before the author plainly tells me, I want to ...
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review 1: Chris Ewan spins a web of magic around the reader slowly unveiling the story, keeping you on tenterhooks. Unlike other thrillers where the good guys and bad guys are identified from the start and its a race to the end. Dead Line unfolds slowly with multiple threads advancing the...
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review 1: The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan is the second book of the Good Thief's Guide mystery series set in modern-day international cities. First book was set in Amsterdam; this time Paris.The series premise is clever and unusual: protagonist Charlie Howard writes a mystery...
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review 1: Charlie is a good thief but a bad experience in Vegas has sent him to Venice to write his detective stories. He's promised his agent, Victoria, to stay on the straight and narrow. Then he gets a visit by a beautiful burglar who has taken his first edition MALTESE FALCON. To ge...
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review 1: I listened to the audio version of this and as usual Simon Vance's narration was of an excellent standard. I enjoy listening to him and his accents and m/f voices are always spot on. There is no need to read the books in order and there is always a bit of a recap in the book as...
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review 1: Charlie Howard, the mystery writer and thief, visits Vegas in the third book in Chris Ewan's Guide Thief Guide series. With his literary agent Victoria, Charlie visits the Fifty-Fifty casino, where he picks the pocket of magician Josh Masters, the hotel's headline act. And when C...