# 1 Jim Brodie/San Francisco Antique Art Dealer/ Investigator
2013 Simon & Schuster
Written for adults
Abandoned - stopped on pg. 146 (401) pages total
Contemporary murder mystery
Goodreads
Rating: 3.89 (76 ratings)
My Rating: (2) it was okay
TPPL
Setting: Contemporary San Francisco; Tokyo, Japan; and an outlying small Japanese town
1st
sentence/s: "Two shades of read darkened the Japantown concourse by the time I arrived. One belonged to a little girl's scarlet party dress. The other was liquid and far too human. City officials would evince a third shade once reports of the carnage hit the airwaves."
My comments: Well, another big decision to abandon a book. I don't know what's going on with me - are my tastes changing? Perhaps it's my interest level....I can't tell. I greatly enjoyed the beginning of this book, but now it's dragging. I don't even care why everything is happening. I'm getting confused about all the people - lots and lots of Japanese names and aliases, waaaaay to hard to remember who's who. Lots of random killing by people who apparently love to kill and have been trained to do it well for centuries. I have been to Japantown and am getting quite familiar with San Francisco, so I was looking forward to this murder mystery. Nope. Gonna go on. Sorry, Mr. Lancet.
Goodreads: FIVE BODIES. ONE CLUE. NOT A TRACE OF THE KILLER. San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie recently inherited a stake in his father's Tokyo-based private investigation firm, which means the single father of six-year-old Jenny is living a busy intercontinental life, traveling to Japan to acquire art and artifacts for his store and consulting on Brodie Security's caseload at home and abroad.
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