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Lawyer-sleuth Rebecca Schwartz heads to an Easter morning sunrise service and gets the shock of her life when she sees a real body nailed to the cross. Rebecca learns the man was a tourist. And he's only the first to die. A man identifying himself as the Trapper is out to destroy San Francisco's tourist trade by killing visitors. But when the cops arrest an innocent man as the Trapper, Rebecca takes on an impossible defense and goes undercover to find a killer . . .Tags
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I love this series.
Rebecca is a criminal lawyer, and a sleuth on the side, and she's backed up with a wild assortment of interesting characters- including her dad, who preceded her as a brilliant criminal lawyer; her partner in their firm, another skilled lawyer with her own issues; their secretary, who is snarky and not necessarily competent but who makes great comic relief; and her boyfriend- a reporter that has a practice of disappearing right at the most inconvenient times. All these people are drawn precisely and with humor, and they have very individual voices.
The plot here was wonderfully twisty, and the ending pretty unexpected in its final twist.
Mostly, though, I just love spending time with these characters!
I'll be continuing show more with this series, definitely! show less
Rebecca is a criminal lawyer, and a sleuth on the side, and she's backed up with a wild assortment of interesting characters- including her dad, who preceded her as a brilliant criminal lawyer; her partner in their firm, another skilled lawyer with her own issues; their secretary, who is snarky and not necessarily competent but who makes great comic relief; and her boyfriend- a reporter that has a practice of disappearing right at the most inconvenient times. All these people are drawn precisely and with humor, and they have very individual voices.
The plot here was wonderfully twisty, and the ending pretty unexpected in its final twist.
Mostly, though, I just love spending time with these characters!
I'll be continuing show more with this series, definitely! show less
Another OK mystery about lawyer Rebecca Schwartz and crew. Like book 2 this was much better than the first in the series. I might have actually gone to a 4 except for the ending. This one screamed for an epilogue. The ending was too abrupt. Things needed to be fleshed out.
Vapid, kitschy, basically a bunch of SF cliches distributed through a limp plot.
Just didn't like the Rebecca character
disgruntled man turns against city
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69+ Works 5,995 Members
Mystery author Julie Smith was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1944. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in journalism. After graduation, she moved to New Orleans and wrote features for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. After a year, she moved to San Francisco and got a job at the San Francisco Chronicle. Fourteen years show more later, she left to form a freelance writing firm called Invisible Ink with two other women. In 1982, her first novel, Death Turns a Trick, was published. Since becoming a full-time author, she has written over twenty novels including the ones in the Rebecca Schwartz Mystery series, the Paul McDonald Mystery series, the Skip Langdon Mystery series, and the Talba Wallis series. Her novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Julie Smith is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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Fischer Taschenbuch (10212)
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- Original title
- Tourist Trap
- Original publication date
- 1986-09-01
- People/Characters
- Rebecca Schwartz; Rob Burns; Alan Kruzick; Mickey Schwartz; Lou Zimbardo
- Important places
- California, USA; San Francisco, California, USA
- Original language
- English
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Statistics
- Members
- 222
- Popularity
- 146,171
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (3.14)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 2
