“One of Those Malibu nights”, “There’s something about St. Tropez” and “It All Began in Mont Carlo”, this little trio is a miniseries considering the main characters are the same and many of the side characters keep popping in and out!
Mac Reilly a Hollywood PI with his own show and his girlfriend and partner in adventure Sunny Alvarez originally from Malibu California, are in Rome when we first meet them. Work cases takes them back to LA and Malibu when they get tangled in the case of a famous actress divorcing her millionaire husband. Murder and fraud, missing person cases and identity crisis soon follows.
In the second book, Sunny and Mac take a much needed vacation to St. Tropez where they find out they have been victims of a rental scam and their villa had been rented to five other party as well. Fraud, art theft, murder and cases of mistaken identity, ghost hunting and finding your true self are discussed and progress.
The third book is an excuse to go around Mon Carlo, Prague and Mumbai! The story is tired by now. Sunny and Mac fight because Sunny wants to get married and Mac has postponed their wedding three times. So she runs away to Mont Carlo and gets tangled in international jewelry theft and blackmail and kidnapping and murder. Annnd yes, Mac has to go and rescue her!
First let me tell you how much I like Ms. Adler’s simple and detailed narrative. You can take a walk with her along the beach or go strolling in French country side or discover a little village somewhere.
But her plots lack seriousness and depth, the bad guys in her stories are always drowned or die in exploding cars or crash into things or go down the side of mountain roads all of their own doing! Very Hollywood action movie happy endings!
In this little series, the third book was a stretch. No real plot in which Sunny behaved very childish and illogical, contrary to her character in previous books.
I wish Ms. Adler hadn’t seen fit to publish this last one. It completely ruined the other two books for me!
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