The first book in the Cliff Janeway series.

When we ran across it at the Book Thing this morning, *MaryZee* passed it along and recommended it. How can I resist a series where the hero is probably an ancestor of my favorite Star Trek Captain?!

This book was strongly recommended to me by MaryZee, a book loving friend, the last time I saw her before she died. She picked it from the shelf of The Book Thing of Baltimore and handed it to me and told me to read it. A few weeks later she died -- and now 9 years have passed.

I pulled this from my shelf to read and add to the Bookish Book Box I run in her memory. But I found the first few pages slow reading and the book box was full, so I held onto it. I am not a hardboiled detective fiction fan and Janeway has a lot of that in him (but I love the name because of Voyager, so that's something). It was the book lover's aspect of the story and Maryzee's recommendation that kept me going. I will say that I appreciated that the descriptions of sex and violence were minimal. The book value part was over my head, though, because I value books for their contents. The mystery aspect was well done and the pacing picked up after the first 40 pages. I don't know that I would seek out any others in the series, but I would probably read them if they crossed my path.

This book is now in the Bookish Book Box and is off on a tour of the US, hopefully to find a new home along the way.

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Reserving from the bookish book box. Thank you!!!