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"Delightful amateur sleuth"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 10, 2003

Thailand is an exotic place and when William Beauchamp goes there on a buying trip, he sends his wife Natalie a fax saying he is not coming back. Unable to keep the business going and care for her severely handicapped daughter, Natalie sells the store and lives off the Read more...

"Exotic setting and mystery"
Reviewed by Dawn Dowdle
Posted August 2, 2003

Lara McClintoch and her ex-husband Clive Swain are in business together. Why she went into business with her ex- husband, she's not sure, but they get along better as business partners than marriage partners. They own an antique shop called McClintoch and Swain. Lara goes abroad to do the buying. Read more...

Summary

Toronto shopkeeper Lara McClintoch solved her first archaeological mystery in The Xibalba Murders, nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Since then, Lyn Hamilton's acclaimed and popular series has taken readers around the world to various exotic locales-where rare antiquities and base human nature add up to murder. Now, in The Thai Amulet, Lara must sift through the layers of Bangkok society to find a fellow antique dealer-alive or dead...