The Widower's Two-Step

Zusatztext "Riordan writes so well about the people and topography of his Texas hometown that he quickly marks the territory as his own." --Chicago Tribune *"The characters are well-defined and original! the dialogue is tough and sharp! and narrator Tres's wry observations make him even more simpatico than the first time around. Riordan showed real talent in Big Red Tequila! but here! he's relaxed enough to make it look easy." --Publishers Weekly! *starred review Informationen zum Autor Rick Riordan is the author of six previous Tres Navarre novels Big Red Tequila , winner of the Shamus and Anthony Awards; The Widower's Two-Step , winner of the Edgar Award; The Last King of Texas ; The Devil Went Down to Austin; Southtown; and Mission Road . He is also the author of the acclaimed thriller Cold Springs and the young adult novel The Lightning Thief . Rick Riordan lives with his family in San Antonio, Texas. Klappentext From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series Tres Navarre has just hours of apprenticeship time to serve before he can go for his P.I. license. Staking out a musician suspected of stealing a demo tape should be a piece of pan dulce. But his attention wanders just long enough for fiddle player Julie Kearnes to be gunned down before his eyes. He should just back away and let the cops investigate, but backing away has never been Tres's strong point. The missing demo and Julie's murder are just two of the problems besetting Miranda Daniels, a pint-sized singer with Texas-sized talent. She's the prize in a tug-of-war between two music hotshots who want to manage her career. One has a habit of making bad things happen to people he doesn't like. The other has just vanished without a trace. As Tres looks into the dirty dealings surrounding Miranda, it becomes clear he's stepped into a rattlesnakes' nest of greed, double cross, and murder-and he may be the next to be snakebit. Don't miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels: BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER'S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION?ROAD • REBEL?ISLAND Leseprobe "Could you please tell your kid to be quiet?" The guy standing in front of my park bench looked like he'd stepped off a Fleetwood Mac album cover, circa 1976. He had that Lindsey Buckingham funhouse-mirror kind of body--unnaturally tall, bulbous in the wrong places. He had the 'Fro and the beard and the loose-fitting black martial arts pajamas that just screamed mod. He was also blocking my camera angle on the blue '68 Cougar across San Pedro Park, eighty yards away. "Well?" Lindsey wiped his forehead. He'd walked over from his tai chi group and sounded out of breath, like he'd been working the moves too hard. I checked my watch. If the lady in the Cougar was going to meet somebody, it should've happened by now. I looked at the tai chi guy. "What kid?" A few feet to my left, Jem made another pass on the swing set, strafing Lindsey Buckingham's students as he came down. He made airplane sounds at the top of his lungs, which was a lot of lungs for a four-year-old, then pointed his toes like machine-gun barrels and started firing. I guess maybe it was hard for Lindsey's folks to concentrate. One of them, a short ovoid woman in pink sweats, was trying to squat for Snake Creeps Down. She ended up rolling on her rump like she'd been shot. Lindsey Buckingham rubbed the back of his neck and glared at me. "The kid on the swings, dumb-ass." I shrugged. "It's a playground. He's playing." "It's seventy-thirty in the morning. We're practicing here." I looked over at Lindsey's students. The pink ovoid woman was just getting up. Next to her ...

Autorentext
Rick Riordan is the author of six previous Tres Navarre novels—Big Red Tequila, winner of the Shamus and Anthony Awards; The Widower’s Two-Step, winner of the Edgar Award; The Last King of Texas; The Devil Went Down to Austin; Southtown; and Mission Road. He is also the author of the acclaimed thriller Cold Springs and the young adult novel The Lightning Thief. Rick Riordan lives with his family in San Antonio, Texas.

Klappentext
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Tres Navarre has just hours of apprenticeship time to serve before he can go for his P.I. license. Staking out a musician suspected of stealing a demo tape should be a piece of pan dulce. But his attention wanders just long enough for fiddle player Julie Kearnes to be gunned down before his eyes. He should just back away and let the cops investigate, but backing away has never been Tres's strong point.

The missing demo and Julie's murder are just two of the problems besetting Miranda Daniels, a pint-sized singer with Texas-sized talent. She's the prize in a tug-of-war between two music hotshots who want to manage her career. One has a habit of making bad things happen to people he doesn't like. The other has just vanished without a trace. As Tres looks into the dirty dealings surrounding Miranda, it becomes clear he's stepped into a rattlesnakes' nest of greed, double cross, and murder-and he may be the next to be snakebit.

Don't miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels:
BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER'S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND

Zusammenfassung
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
 
Tres Navarre has just hours of apprenticeship time to serve before he can go for his P.I. license. Staking out a musician suspected of stealing a demo tape should be a piece of pan dulce. But his attention wanders just long enough for fiddle player Julie Kearnes to be gunned down before his eyes. He should just back away and let the cops investigate, but backing away has never been Tres's strong point.

The missing demo and Julie's murder are just two of the problems besetting Miranda Daniels, a pint-sized singer with Texas-sized talent. She's the prize in a tug-of-war between two music hotshots who want to manage her career. One has a habit of making bad things happen to people he doesn't like. The other has just vanished without a trace. As Tres looks into the dirty dealings surrounding Miranda, it becomes clear he's stepped into a rattlesnakes' nest of greed, double cross, and murder—and he may be the next to be snakebit.

Don’t miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels:
BIG RED TEQUILA • THE WIDOWER’S TWO-STEP • THE LAST KING OF TEXAS • THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN • SOUTHTOWN • MISSION ROAD • REBEL ISLAND

Leseprobe
"Could you please tell your kid to be quiet?"

The guy standing in front of my park bench looked like he'd stepped off a Fleetwood Mac album cover, circa 1976.  He had that Lindsey Buckingham funhouse-mirror kind of body--unnaturally tall, bulbous in the wrong places.  He had the 'Fro and the beard and the loose-fitting black martial arts pajamas that just screamed mod.

He was also blocking my camera angle on the blue '68 Cougar across San Pedro Park, eighty yards away.

"Well?" Lindsey wiped his forehead.  He'd walked over from his tai chi group and sounded out of breath, like he'd been working the moves too hard.

I checked my watch.  If the lady in the Cougar was going to meet somebody, it should've happened by now.

I looked at the tai chi guy.

"What kid?"

A few feet to my left, Jem made another pass on the swing …

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