Date with a Sheesha A Russell Quant Mystery Anthony Bidulka Books
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Neil Gupta went to the Middle East looking for antique carpets. He found something equally timeless murder. When Neil is found stabbed to death in Dubai’s spice souk, his distraught father wants revenge. He hires private investigator Russell Quant to catch the killer. In his greatest case to date, Quant goes undercover to match wits with a wily museum curator, shifty souk merchants, corrupt carpet experts, and the denizens of an underground club for “fabulous” men. From the flamboyant glitz of Dubai to the scorching sand dunes of Saudi Arabia, Quant risks his life as he wades further and further into the shadows cast by the desert sun. As Quant’s spicy international adventure heats up, he learns a valuable lesson about love, life, and seizing the moment…before it’s gone. On the verge of making the biggest personal decision of his life, Quant discovers that endings sometimes come before beginnings.
Date with a Sheesha A Russell Quant Mystery Anthony Bidulka Books
I cannot say enough positive things about this series and this author. This North-of-the-Border author is an exceptional story-teller who weaves recurring characters and related situations into each of the installments in this mystery series. No gratuitous, graphic sex scenes, so the all these books are appropriate for a variety of audiences without the need for squeamishness about the "gay stuff." At present, the author isn't telling us whether he's writing any other books in this series -- which makes me a little sad and a lot hopeful. However, he has started another series (no gay central character) and the first installment in the series is promising. I've repurchased book 2 in the second series. This author has made a living (by outward appearances) as a writer for the better part of a two decades. An inveterate traveler and unapologetic foodie, he weaves these interests and experiences into all his books. He's the kind of author you'd enjoy having a cocktail with and shooting the breeze.Product details
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Date with a Sheesha A Russell Quant Mystery Anthony Bidulka Books Reviews
Easily the best book of the bunch. The author laid out a well planned mystery with interesting themes and settings. The characters were a bit ""over the top"" at times, but it all worked well to create an identifiable style that was enjoyable.
Lovers of the Russell Quant Mystery series will surely be eager to get there hands on this one. This is the seventh in the series, and once again Bidulka does not disappoint his readers. The premise is a good one, and one of the highlights of the book the descriptions of the culture and peoples of Dubai. Personally, I find the writing a bit too chatty-witty at times... it can be and does get tiresome at times. But, who can quibble with success.
An avid reader, I will explore new authors with great anticipation and, with the same anticipation will return to writers whose previous works I have enjoyed. That said, poor Russell Quant, Anthony Bidulka's charming sleuth in now several novels, appears to have nothing left for readers to anticipate. Quant's adventures almost take a back seat to Mr. Bidulka's passion to regale us with impassionate characters, who just are no longer that interesting. And, readers might as well skip the last chapters of these books anymore because we already know that Quant won't end up with that much anticipated loving, committed relationship in the end...again. I'm ready for Mr. Bidulka to spread his wings.
I like the Quaint mysteries. Always curious about what Sereena is up to.
This book lives up to the reputation of the fascinating adventures of Russell Quant, private detective.
Have read several Russal Quant mysteries now and continue to enjoy them. Well written, keeps you wondering who the bad guys are, and this adventure takes you to Dubai to add a little flavor. Good balance between the gay lifestyle and the mystery. Will continue to look for Anthony Bidulka books because I know I am in for a good time.
I truly do not know how I will fill the next year or so of my life, waiting for book eight in the Russell Quant, Prairie PI, series. It bodes ill that I am already casting feverishly about for possible plot lines that mend the hideous damage done to my beloved Russell in this book. I'm the sort of a boy whose brain needs chew-toys, as my younger brother said once, or it turns on the furniture and tears the place up.
I really loved Aloha, Candy Hearts, and felt that the decidedly substandard Sundowner Ubuntu was partially made up for with the new installment's spiffy pace and beautiful ending. I approached the newest book with a high heart and buoyant hopes.
And then Bidulka goes and exceeds them. Bar none, this is the best book in the series. The mystery is far and away the most accomplished and polished, pulling a suspect switcheroo successfully twice and marginally once. The ending, in fact the last three chapters, are so exciting I was pacing the floor as I read them. (The dog was most confused, poor little love, pacing along with me, looking worried at my exclamations of surprise and excitement.)
The story picks up with Russell happily ensconced in a relationship, seemingly one that's riding on rails it's going so smoothly and directly. He's happy, really truly happy, and the cherry on the sundae of his life lands with a plop in the form of a challenging, extremely remunerative job Investigate the gay-bashing death of a world-renowned ancient carpet expert in glitzy, ritzy Dubai, all at the expense of a megarich Indian engineer and his wife. It's the engineer's son who's dead. Now...what to tell Mr. Man? "Honey, I'm going away for a few weeks, my life's going to be in danger, kiss kiss!"
Clouds gather, shadows lengthen, and once in Dubai, Russell enters the hyper-closeted world of gay Arabia, and the hyper-competitive world of ancient carpet buying and selling. What happens there leads Russell from a hot Arabian sandstorm back to frigid, January-blasted Saskatoon, a chase scene featuring Mr. Man's property's frozen pond, bullets, a dead body, and a Big Reveal that is really a Big Reveal!
I love being surprised, especially when I've come to the conclusion that a series is fun but no great shakes, worth reading because it's just entertaining. And now I'm awake and alert again, eager for the next book, agog to see what the author will do to fix a certain giant chasm he's ripped in Russell's life.
2011 can't come fast enough. I need my fix!!
Having read all of Anthony Bidulka's six previous Russell Quant's mysteries, I eagerly anticipated this one. The reason for the anticipation was to see if Bidulka continued his, frankly, boring travelogue format that began with the over-the-top Tapas on the Ramblas, where the plot (in the case of Tapas) sailed from one port where one terrible thing happened to the next. This style continued through Stain, Sundowner and Aloha. Snooze. Happily, we're refreshed in Date where there still is a travelogue but where Russell is more active than your basic tourist who has a run of bad luck and we have a mystery for Russell to solve. There are some problems. The asterisk references to Bidulka's previous books are gratuitous and unnecessary. (Did Ian Fleming ever asterisk previous references to James Bond stories?) I am not Canadian, but I don't think you have to fly from Montreal to Paris to Frankfurt to get to Dubai. But, in the end, literally, Bidulka delivers with a spectacular finish. A nice date!
I cannot say enough positive things about this series and this author. This North-of-the-Border author is an exceptional story-teller who weaves recurring characters and related situations into each of the installments in this mystery series. No gratuitous, graphic sex scenes, so the all these books are appropriate for a variety of audiences without the need for squeamishness about the "gay stuff." At present, the author isn't telling us whether he's writing any other books in this series -- which makes me a little sad and a lot hopeful. However, he has started another series (no gay central character) and the first installment in the series is promising. I've repurchased book 2 in the second series. This author has made a living (by outward appearances) as a writer for the better part of a two decades. An inveterate traveler and unapologetic foodie, he weaves these interests and experiences into all his books. He's the kind of author you'd enjoy having a cocktail with and shooting the breeze.
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