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The Widower's Two-Step
Written by Rick Riordan
Narrated by Tom Stechschulte
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Rick Riordan's first book in the Tres Navarre series, Big Red Tequila (S1004) hit the mystery market like a Texas tornado. Readers couldn't get enough of its hero's offbeat combination of academic degrees, tai chi skills, and nose for danger. When the second adventure, Widower's Two-Step, was published, it quickly earned an Edgar Award. Instead of accepting a teaching position at the university, Tres is finishing up his apprenticeship for a private investigator's license. He's doing a poor job of surveillance on the fiddle player in a promising honky-tonk band: she is shot in broad daylight while he watches. Shaken, Tres begins an investigation on his own. It's not long before he discovers that some people will do anything to capture a lucrative recording contract. With suspense as sizzling as the southwestern sun, and a truly colorful cast of characters, The Widower's Two-Step is a hit with mystery lovers well beyond the Lone Star State. Narrator Tom Stechschulte's performance adds just the right spice to Tres' character.
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Big Red Tequila Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Widower's Two-Step Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last King of Texas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil Went Down to Austin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Southtown Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mission Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebel Island Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
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Reviews for The Widower's Two-Step
Rating: 3.5267856910714284 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
56 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was an outstanding novel, I am looking forward to the rest of the series. The narrator did a first rate job, his voices for each of the characters was spot on and made the book all that much better.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Riordan focuses on the music world in this second Tres Nevarre mystery. Nevarre is only 10 hours (or so) away from completing his apprenticeship and getting his official PI license. But he gets entangled in a case of a missing music producer, and can’t just let it go. I really like the character of Tres Nevarre – a tai-chi master with a PhD in medieval English, and a cool head when faced with a dangerous situation. However, the plot gets really convoluted here and doesn’t move fast enough for me. While Riordan has the skill to write in such a way as to keep me turning pages, I though it took too long to set-up the case and I was losing interest. He’s also guilty of one of my biggest pet peeves – he gets the geography of the city wrong. I’m a native of San Antonio … he has the characters driving south on a major thoroughfare, passing a famous landmark and then turning right (west) onto another major street. Except that the street they turn right onto in the book, is actually several blocks NORTH of the landmark they have supposedly passed before making the turn. A reader not familiar with the territory won’t be bothered by this; it’s a tiny little scene in a 365 page book. But little details like this drive me nuts when the author gets it wrong (and Riordan is a native of the area in question, so he definitely knows better). That little paragraph lost him a star in my book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a fun mystery in the same vein as Elvis Cole or Spenser. Granted, Tres Navarre is not in the same league as Cole or Spenser, and the plot twists are a little too convoluted for my tastes, but all-in-all a fun way to spend a weekend.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tres is becoming more interesting now. Still walking the border of self-destruction, but perhaps seeking handholds in this world. This story revolves around the country music life in Texas. The mystery is not so difficult, or unsolvable, but it is fun going there with Tres Navarre. There was a nice bit of character analysis in this story, why we do the things we do sometimes and how people deceive us into doing them. The story also made me laugh out loud several times, and that is something I look for in my mysteries. I look forward to the next story, where Tres tries his hand at being a college professor.