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Title: Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee Mysteries (Paperback)) by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0-449-22484-8 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Meyer Takes The Lead
Comment: In the last few Travis McGee novels, MacDonald focuses more than before on McGee's close friend Meyer. CINNAMON SKIN is a story in which Meyer takes the lead. He has to fight the demons of his past cowardice and also avenge the death of his niece. CINNAMON SKIN is one of the very best entries in the McGee series.
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: 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 (Travis McGee Mysteries (Paperback)) by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224813 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Empty Copper Sea by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224805 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224775 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee Mysteries (Paperback)) by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224791 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Turquoise Lament by John D. MacDonald ISBN: 0449224783 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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