George Gaskill, a car
salesman from Indiana, goes missing from the stern deck of the Aegean
Queen leaving only a pool of blood and a strange note behind. Ollie
Osgood, the husband of Dotsy Lamb's best friend Lettie, is the last
person to have seen him and one of three men who lost a bundle to George
in a Texas Hold'em Poker game. Then the ship's photographer turns up
murdered on the beautiful island of Mykonos.
Dotsy wants only to
unwind and to renew her promising relationship with Marco Quattrocchi,
the Carabinieri captain she met in Italy three years ago, but since
Ollie is the prime suspect in George's disappearance and Marco is
embroiled in the photographer's murder, she can't.
The Aegean Queen
is a ship with a theme--archaeology. Dotsy strikes up a friendship with
the ship's guest lecturer, famous archaeologist, Dr. Luc Girard, and
introduces him to the ship's klutziest dancer, Sophie Antonakos. With
the help of Lettie Osgood's amazing powers of observation, Dotsy,
Sophie, and Luc discover antiquities in the ship's display cases that
have been looted from museums or smuggled from their homelands.
The
trails of murder and theft converge on the island of Crete where Dotsy
finds herself dodging bullets from the gun of a man she doesn't even
know. From Goodreads.
This was a mystery and there was quite a lot going on but it was easy to follow. I like Dotsy's friend Lettie who remembers everything she has seen. It was a cosy, easy read. This was the third book in the series and I have not read the two first ones but it wasn't a problem.
This book qualifies for:
2014 Ebook challenge
2014 Monthly Motif Reading Challenge
2014 Monthly Key Word Reading Challenge
2014 TBR Pile Reading Challenge
What’s In A Name 2014
2014 Read Your Freebies! Reading Challenge
You Read How Many Books? Reading Challenge 2014
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Yahtzee Challenge
Sequel Spring Reading Challenge
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2014
Nothing but Reading Challenges - Spell it Out - Animal Alphabet (L-eagle)
Crazy Challenge Connection Bard of Avon
Spring into Horror Read-a-Thon 2014
Glad that you could enjoy this without having read the other books, that seems to be the way series are 'going' and it's awesome. Well done on What's In A Name!
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