A Mysterious Review of The Reluctant Matador by Mark Pryor. A Hugo Marston Mystery.
Review summary: The mystery plot here consists of two primary threads. Unfortunately both subplots are weakly conceived and developed and neither really capture the reader's attention or imagination. Read, instead, the far better earlier books in this series and hope this is a one-off anomaly. (Click here for text of full review.)
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The Reluctant Matador
Mark Pryor
A Hugo Marston Mystery
Seventh Street Books (June 2015)
Publisher synopsis: A nineteen-year-old aspiring model has disappeared in Paris. Her father, Bart Denum, turns to his old friend Hugo Marston for help. Marston, the security chief at the American Embassy, makes some inquiries and quickly realizes something is amiss: Bart's daughter was not a model, but rather a dancer at a seedy strip club. And she headed to Barcelona with some guy she met at the club.
With his friend and former CIA agent, Tom Green, Marston heads for Barcelona. The two sleuths identify the man last seen with the girl, break into his house, and encounter a shocking scene: Bart Denum, standing over the dead and battered body of their mysterious stranger. Though Bart protests his innocence, under the damning circumstances, Spanish authorities arrest him for murder.
The two American investigators are faced with their biggest challenge ever: find the real killer, prove Bart's innocence, and locate his missing daughter — without getting killed along the way.
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