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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
Multiple-award-winning author Rick Riordan brings back smart-mouthed Texas P.I. Tres Navarre for his most dangerous case yet. If you think the academic world is deadly dull, you're half right....
When a controversial English professor is found shot to death, Tres Navarre — P.I. and Ph.D. — is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Police assure him they already have a suspect, so while they wrap up the open-and-shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three classes, grade on a curve ... and walk in a dead man's shoes.
It should be an easy assignment — but one thing Tres doesn't do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin — and lands in a high-stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio's West Side....
Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels:
BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND
Multiple-award-winning author Rick Riordan brings back smart-mouthed Texas P.I. Tres Navarre for his most dangerous case yet. If you think the academic world is deadly dull, you're half right....
When a controversial English professor is found shot to death, Tres Navarre — P.I. and Ph.D. — is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Police assure him they already have a suspect, so while they wrap up the open-and-shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three classes, grade on a curve ... and walk in a dead man's shoes.
It should be an easy assignment — but one thing Tres doesn't do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin — and lands in a high-stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio's West Side....
Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels:
BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND
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“And I'm glad I continued!
If you read my review of the last book (I doubt you did, but that's okay :)), you'd know that I was slightly disappointed in the last book, for reasons even I don't even fully understand. But I can safely say that this was not the case with this book! I don't think I was ever going to NOT finish the series, but I'm glad I continued nonetheless.
This book was just as action-packed as the first one, with even more twists to boot. The stakes seem the highest they've ever been for Tres in this book as well. At least, he gets seriously hurt a couple of times in this book, which was not the case in the first two books. It's definitely not all fun and games anymore.
As a side note, I want to comment on his romantic relationships. After seeing his sleep with two women in rapid succession in both of the first two books, it was almost refreshing to see him only kiss one woman before deciding he'd better not. It shows some growth. Part of me DOES want him to find someone, but not like that. As for the fact that the same woman Tres kissed got back together with Ralph after previously hating him (hating Ralph, that is, not Tres), that seems a tad too unbelievable to me. I don't know why she'd suddenly be okay with what Ralph does. Speaking of Ralph, while I greatly enjoy his character, I don't want him to become kind of a crutch - Tres's right-hand man in the Underworld of San Antonio, the one who always gives him information or bails him out. I'm worried he'll start to become that.
**SPOILER ALERT** As I discuss one of the twists in this book. The whole Sandra/Inez twist was interesting, if a little too out of the blue. But I don't get why, during their conversation, she talked as if she DID kill him when she's innocent. She just made herself seem suspicious to Tres. **SPOILER ALERT**
I kind of like the moments when he's teaching. I also like the nod to book two in this book with the Miranda Daniels song playing. Going back to that moment, though, he talks as though he helped them again after the events of the last book. I was confused for a bit.
Oh, and are we going to talk about how Tres mentioned killing someone in either this book or the very end of the last book, and then was not mentioned again? Or did he kill someone in the first book, and I already can't remember?
Like with book one, this book and book two were audiobook listens. I've been enjoying the narration the same each time. His Texas and Hispanic actions kind of all sound the same, but he does a great job of capturing Tres's personality.
All in all, a great read. I look forward to continuing with the series.
On to the next one!”
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About Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan is the author of two previous Tres Navarre novels--Big Red Tequila, winner of the Shamus and Anthony Awards, and The Widower's Two-Step, winner of the Edgar Award. A middle-school English teacher by day, Riordan lives with his wife and family in San Antonio, Texas, where he is at work on his fourth Tres Navarre novel.
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