Good Thief's Guide (8 books in series)
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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...
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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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...