Meet Me in Venice
A Novel
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Featuring an international and interfamilial jewel heist, Adler's novel pulls at various plot strands simultaneously. Although the adventures of the main character, who is Chinese, are compelling and are told with passion by narrator Carrington MacDuffie, the other story line, set in Paris and composed of lackluster exposition, comes across as flat. The wrangle over an ancient pearl necklace is most interesting when MacDuffie infuses suspense between an antique collector and her scheming assistant, a jewel thief. The rest of the scenes drag, partly because the plot buildup takes considerable time and the slow pace of the action slows down the narration, leaving the listener hoping for a return to the more exciting sections. M.R. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
May 21, 2007
In this globe-spanning, intrigue-filled thriller from veteran bestseller Adler (Hotel Riviera
), an American antiques dealer working in Paris, 38-year-old Precious “Preshy” Rafferty, is drawn into a scheme that also ensnares a cousin she's never met in person, Shanghai antique dealer Lily Song. Lily owns a fabulous, superexpensive necklace that Lily's business associate, Mary-Lou Chen, is out to steal. It's the job of Mary-Lou's paramour, American businessman Bennett Yuan, to find a buyer. As the suspense builds, Lily and Preshy must travel to Venice to meet and, among other things, protect the fortune Preshy is due to inherit from her Aunt Grizelda. Adler remains as adept as ever at making her various locales come to life and doesn't disappoint in keeping the mystery surrounding the necklace, and the two cousins, swirling.
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