5/22/2023 0 Comments Dead in Dubai by Marilynn LarewThe plot isn’t without its snags: it’s never clear why Lee simply doesn’t tell Cynthia that George is dead or why she stays on the case after her client’s death, which even Lee eventually questions. The author’s appealing protagonist makes a welcome second appearance in a story that’s stronger and more riveting than her previous outing. Lee suspects Felix’s Russian rival, Sergei Malyakov, of the murder, but that doesn’t explain who’s following her. Furthermore, Felix Gringikov, a Belarusian arms dealer for whom George had worked, has been missing for a couple of years. But she finds more than a simple murder: George, who had been using false identities in both Dubai and Istanbul, had more than one stash of uncut diamonds. George was killed in Dubai, but the CIA is reluctant to tell Cynthia, because it doesn’t know why Lee, hired by Cynthia, is determined to do the detective work herself. Cynthia wants to know where her two-years-absent husband, George, is so she can serve him with divorce papers. Lee knows it was her former employers who sent Cynthia Branson to her door. Former CIA analyst Lee Carruthers returns in Larew’s ( The Spider Catchers, 2013) thriller, this time searching for a murderer in Dubai and stepping into the middle of a war between arms dealers.
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