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Red, White & Dead (2009)

by Laura Caldwell(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0778326667 (ISBN13: 9780778326663)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mira

series

Izzy McNeil Mystery

review 1: I did not like this third book in the Izzy McNeil trilogy as much as the first one. This took me FOREVER to finish (I've been working on it since the day after Christmas), but, in all fairness to me, I am visiting family and have had a sick husband and twins in the intervening time and been unable to stay up much past 8 p.m.! I am not so sure that that has much to do with the story or writing being any less good, but rather my inability to read more than a couple of pages at a time.One thing that I will say about Caldwell is that she does a VERY good job bring readers who might not have read books earlier in the trilogy up to speed such that the books do not have to be read in order. I found Izzy to be much less whiny in this book than in Book 1. I did still believe th... moreat there was still alot of repetitious putzing around that was not related to the story. I thought that this story was a much more unbelievable than Book 1, and I detested the ending. Like with Book 1, I felt left hanging without clear or logical resolution (i.e., what happens to Spence/Victoria or Maggie/Bernard?). Though, maybe McNeil wrote the ending this way to leave the door open to continue the series.For some odd reason, the Durham County Library does not have a copy of the second book in the trilogy, and I definitely did not like this series enough to search for a copy to purchase. This may be it for me and Izzy! Good fluff and a brainless read, but I am not going to go out of my way to recommend this book to anyone...
review 2: three parts of this story... Izzy catches the eye of a gangster (in a bad way)... her relationship with a younger man develops... and she becomes embroiled in discovering family secrets - her father (whom she thought died when she was 10) is actually alive; as a double agent with the FBI and his mafia family, he faked his own death and continued to work against them.... and his sister (Izzy's beloved aunt) is the family mafia head... less

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