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G.I. Bones (2009)

by Martin Limón(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1569476039 (ISBN13: 9781569476031)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Soho Crime

series

Sergeants Sueño and Bascom

review 1: I really like this murder mystery series, which is set in Seoul in the 1970's on an American army base and the nearby village. I also love this publisher, and have read any author they publish that I have found, and never been disappointed. This particular installment, which focuses on an old crime that leads into a new one, and the solution to both crimes is where we end up (always satisfying to have the lose ends tied up andin this one they are tied up nicely).
review 2: Limon, Martin. G. I. BONES. (2009). ****. I’d lost track of Limon for several years, and, actually, thought that he had dropped out of the mystery-writing world. When I saw that he was going to be at the recent Bouchercon, I made sure that I brought his books along to be signed. It ... moreturns out that he has been writing all along, past the three books that I knew of; I just wasn’t paying attention. This is his latest book, and features his two Military Intelligence MPs in South Korea, Sgts. Sueno and Bascom. It is now twenty years after the truce was signed between North and South Korea, but the U.S. still has a formidable presence in the country. Sueno is telling the story. He is summoned by his friend, Dr. Yong In-ja, a woman he has secretly admired for a long time, to meet with an old Korean lady, a fortune teller, in the section of Seoul known as Itaewon. She has been “bothered” by a long-dead American soldier who wants his bones found and buried. As he agrees to look, the daughter of a commanding officer disappears. She is only 17-years old, and our two MPs are assigned to find her and bring her back. On top of this official assignment, they have to go back and find out who this missing soldier was, and then find out why he disappeared. These two mysteries take the MPs on searches into the labyrinthine byways of Itaewon, the “ville” or red-light district of Seoul, where they then encounter some ancient history involving the missing soldier and the people who have taken over the power in South Korea through force and intimidation. The atmospheric setting of these novels is amazing, and you will almost be undertanding some Korean before you finish the book, in addition to knowing more about the customs and religious practices of the people of South Korea. While you’re at it, read his first book in this series, “Jade Lady Burning.” You will be impressed. Recommended. less

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