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Margarita Nights (The Sherri Travis Mystery Series) (2013)

by Phyllis Smallman(Favorite Author)

3.1 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0992053609 (ISBN13: 9780992053604)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Phyllis Smallman

series

A Sherri Travis Mystery

review 1: Sherri Travis Mystery #1? Meaning there is a Sherri Travis Mystery #2? Um, pass.Maragarita Nights is just a cast of largely irrelevant characters combined with a dull plot and terrible writing. I can only assume that the author is setting up this series like one of those crime or courtroom tv shows where every episode can stand on its own but there's all this stuff going on in the background that has nothing to do with the case at hand but is needed to develop the characters for future episodes and to keep people coming back for more. Good in theory but just a total bust for me. I don't want to read anything else by this author and it baffles me that she has received recognition for her work.
review 2: Phyllis Smallman won the first Unhanged Arthur Ellis Canadi... morean Crime WritingAward, earning a contract with prestigious McArthur and Company, whopublished her novel this spring.It's a winner from page 1, where we are introduced to feisty bartenderSherri Travis in Jacaranda, Florida. She's separated from her husband Jimmy,but when his boat blows up and she's named on an insurance policy, Sherrifinds herself swimming with the sharks in blue waters streaked with blood.Jimmy was no prince; a legion of people wanted him turned into fish food,and Sherri's at the top of her game in a hunt to exonerate herself.Put a sharp-witted woman in the exotic setting of the Gulf Islands playing agame in which she's both predator and prey, and you have a perfect storm.The details put the reader on the spot, immersed in place and time: "TheSunset is the creme de la creme of watering holes. On the second floor of apink stucco building decorated with white Bermuda shutters and tall gracefulpalms, etched glass doors lead from the lobby of the restaurant into thebar. Black-and-white photographs of Key West in the thirties line theCypress-panelled walls. Overhead, two giant fans on pulleys stir airsmelling of old leather chairs, long ago Cuban cigars and expensiveperfume."You are there, no doubt about it. Breathe in that warm ocean air and sip afrosted drink. less

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