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Fiddler and Fiora Mystery #4
Just Enough Light to Kill
According to Fiora, my dead Uncle Jake taught me more than I should know about adrenaline, smuggling, and borders.
I liked it way too much.
That was what drove Fiora and me apart.
Lately, though, we had been doing well together. I didn’t want to see it end. Neither did she. But yesterday always comes, as Jake used to say when he was stoned.
Today, it came with a vengeance.
An old friend-enemy who had saved my life had been killed on the wrong side of the border. I could no more ignore that than Fiora could ignore her fey dreams of trouble coming down at me with bullets to spare.
This time, I was smart. I wouldn’t let Fiora go south of the border with me.
But this time, the real trouble was north of the border, and it was Fiora’s beautiful neck on the line…
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Named by TIME magazine as one of the best suspense novels of the year.
"Plan on reading this one all the way through. You won't be able to stop." --United Press International
I liked it way too much.
That was what drove Fiora and me apart.
Lately, though, we had been doing well together. I didn’t want to see it end. Neither did she. But yesterday always comes, as Jake used to say when he was stoned.
Today, it came with a vengeance.
An old friend-enemy who had saved my life had been killed on the wrong side of the border. I could no more ignore that than Fiora could ignore her fey dreams of trouble coming down at me with bullets to spare.
This time, I was smart. I wouldn’t let Fiora go south of the border with me.
But this time, the real trouble was north of the border, and it was Fiora’s beautiful neck on the line…
* * *
Named by TIME magazine as one of the best suspense novels of the year.
"Plan on reading this one all the way through. You won't be able to stop." --United Press International
254 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1988
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A.E. Maxwell
18 books20 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
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collaboration of Ann Maxwell and Evan Maxwell
also aka Lowell Charters, Elizabeth Lowell, and Annalise Sun
(1)
collaboration of Ann Maxwell and Evan Maxwell
also aka Lowell Charters, Elizabeth Lowell, and Annalise Sun
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March 27, 2019
Timely mystery set on the Mexican/American border detailing human smuggling and a Soviet intelligence officer.
October 13, 2019
This Fiddler and Fiora mystery, written in 1988, deals with illegal activities along the Mexican border. Bigtime human smuggling, lots of action, violence, and clever maneuvers amongst those who enable the invasion and those who attempt to stop or curtail it.
July 8, 2008
JUST ENOUGH LIGHT TO KILL - Ex
Maxwell, A.E. - 4th in series
In sunny southern California living is easy. And in Mexico, when you mess with the wrong folks, dying is easy too--as sexy, savvy RI. Fiddler finds out when he heads down to Tijuana. When a U.S. Customs agent who saved his life is killed, Fiddler heads south of the border with some unpleasant questions for some decidedly unpleasant people. Suddenly, he's at the top of the Tijuana hit parade, a target of smugglers, banditos, and the shadowy El Cojo, a blast from Fiddler's past. The trail of greed and deception leads him to a bank in Newport Beach and his voluptuous ex-wife, Fiora--and Fiddler's going to need her wiles to outfox El Cojo, who's marked him for death and won't let borders stand in his way.
I love this series.
Maxwell, A.E. - 4th in series
In sunny southern California living is easy. And in Mexico, when you mess with the wrong folks, dying is easy too--as sexy, savvy RI. Fiddler finds out when he heads down to Tijuana. When a U.S. Customs agent who saved his life is killed, Fiddler heads south of the border with some unpleasant questions for some decidedly unpleasant people. Suddenly, he's at the top of the Tijuana hit parade, a target of smugglers, banditos, and the shadowy El Cojo, a blast from Fiddler's past. The trail of greed and deception leads him to a bank in Newport Beach and his voluptuous ex-wife, Fiora--and Fiddler's going to need her wiles to outfox El Cojo, who's marked him for death and won't let borders stand in his way.
I love this series.
February 24, 2014
This book is old enough to vote. Someone at my gym is clearly emptying shelves of old mysteries. This one moved right along with shenanigans between Chula Vista and Tijuana.
Fiddler, the intrepid P.I. put me in mind of Travis McGee. He is more or less living with his ex-wife and there are the requisite interesting characters including Benny who is an electronics expert and uses a wheelchair. The electronics, of course, are also old enough to vote.
Moves along nicely and is written with words of more than two syllables with the occasional diversion into nearly literary flights of wordage.
Fiddler, the intrepid P.I. put me in mind of Travis McGee. He is more or less living with his ex-wife and there are the requisite interesting characters including Benny who is an electronics expert and uses a wheelchair. The electronics, of course, are also old enough to vote.
Moves along nicely and is written with words of more than two syllables with the occasional diversion into nearly literary flights of wordage.
September 13, 2011
I'm not a huge fan of the border stories and the Mexican bandits. Perhaps that's because we live close enough to that reality that I hear some of it on the news. Regardless, while this might have been a good book, I was too turned off by this theme that I ended up not reading more than a few chapters in and putting aside for good.
January 7, 2015
Good leading character with plausible storyline
June 28, 2016
Loved it
Fiona and Fiddler are fantastic. Wish there were more than 7 in this series! Elizabeth Lowell has written many books, but none like this series. Am crazy for them!
Fiona and Fiddler are fantastic. Wish there were more than 7 in this series! Elizabeth Lowell has written many books, but none like this series. Am crazy for them!
April 20, 2017
Another good book in the series, however, since I've been binge reading and re-reading A.E. Maxwell & Ann Maxwell & Elizabeth Lowell (all the same person plus a husband co-writer) for quite a few books now, I think I better take a break. But then...I'll be back for book 5.
October 23, 2018
Named by TIME magazine as one of the best suspense novels of the year “Fiddler is to California what Spenser is to Boston and Travis McGee is to Florida. Tough, smart guys who know that sometimes, what looks like paradise, is pure hell.”—Paul Levine, best-selling author of Illegal “Maxwell’s work is engaging and wonderfully articulated.”—Robert B. Parker “Maxwell’s style is sexy and hard-hitting.”—Publishers Weekly Back in print, the fourth Fiddler & Fiora crime novel. When an American customs agent who once saved Fiddler’s life dies suspiciously on the US-Mexican border, Fiddler heads south to look into the death.
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