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Title: Cinnamon Skin by Kevin Conway, John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0-375-41014-7 Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: MacDonald's BEST "Travis McGee" Mystery Novel?
Comment: It wouldn't take much of an argument to convince me that CINNAMON SKIN is the best -- or at least one of the best few -- of the fine "color-titled" Travis McGee mystery novel series by prolific John D. MacDonald (author of CAPE FEAR, etc.). This actually is at least two novels in one, as Trav and best-friend Meyer first travel America (mostly the Texas-area Southwest) ferreting out the murderous past of a serial killer -- then track him to his current lair in the Cancun-Yucatan area of Mexico and lay a dangerous jungle trap for him there. VERY highly recommended for fascinating characters (good and bad), local color, and tense action. Of course, as with all JDM's work and especially the McGee series, CINNAMON is well-crafted and written. Enjoy!
Rating: 4
Summary: The last book in the Travis McGee series.
Comment: This is the last book in the Travis McGee series written shortly before McDonald died. Although it has all the classic elements of earlier works in the series, it lacks the emotional punch which made many of the earlier books stand out from the detective genre crowd.
McGee and Meyer travel to the Yucatan in pursuit of a typically malevolent villian who has wronged a beautiful woman with "cinnamon skin". The character development is up to McDonald's usual high standards, complete with the requisite philosophical flights of Travis' balanced against Meyer's earth-rooted reasoning. In an unusual twist, it is actually Meyer who overcomes the bad guy in the final scene which takes place deep in the Mexican jungle.
If you have been a fan of the McGee series, all of which contained a color in their titles, this story will not disappoint you. In fact, reading it alongside one of the early (1950's) Travis McGee books offers some fascinating insights into McDonald's personal development as his hero acquires the politically correct attitudes of the decade.
It has been rumored for years that there was a final McGee novel with the color black in the title in which the aging hero dies. Some have even speculated that "Spenser" author Robert B. Parker was working to complete the unfinished McDonald manuscript. True McGee (and McDonald) fans will be glad neither has materialized. Closing with this book, and never being heard from again, is a far more appropriate ending to a pair of long and storied careers
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Old Storytelling at its Best
Comment: A boat blows up coming into harbor in the Florida Keys. Within hours a Chilean Terrorist group claims responsibility for planting the bomb with intent to kill the famed economist Dr. Meyer. Private Detective Travis McGee is suspicious and tracks Meyer -- a good friend -- down and finds he was in fact, not aboard the ill-fated boat.
Photographs from a nearby boat reveal that a man Evan Lawrence also may not have been aboard the boat. Lawrence recently married Meyer's niece, and when McGee's suspicions seem confirmed, the two friends (he and Meyer) begin a hunt to find out about Evan Lawrence's past.
Thus begins Cinnamon Skin, a taut, fun mystery thriller that leads two friends through the criminal past that formed a killer. Some of the most deft touches in the novel come when MacDonald describes the lives of people along the Rio Grande Valley in southwest Texas. At one point, I actually got out a road map and traced their quest from Eagle Pass to El Paso and back all the way to Brownsville. MacDonald blends fact with fiction at just the right pitch in this, his twentieth Travis McGee novel.
MacDonald writes like a writer who has earned it, man. He seems to know his story so well, there is very little drift in the way he tells a story. Each sentence is exact or darn near exact, and the end result is a taut mystery that is very fun and very entertaining -- the kind of novel you'll want to talk about with friends.
I highly recommend Cinnamon Skin to folks who like good old storytelling at its best, most genuine form. It is the perfect airplane, poolside, vacation novel to help you beat the heat this summer. And its depth will leave you feeling satisfied at any time of year. Good stuff.
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Stacey
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Title: Green Ripper by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224813 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Scarlet Ruse by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224775 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 09 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Empty Copper Sea by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224805 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224791 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Free Fall in Crimson by John D. Macdonald ISBN: 0449224821 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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