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Left Turn at Paradise

✍ Scribed by Shawver, Thomas


Book ID
108358650
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
572 KB
Series
Rare Book Mystery 2
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780804179287

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


The author of The Dirty Book Murder returns to the surprisingly lethal world of rare books with a second enthralling novel featuring a most unlikely hero--antiquarian bookseller Michael Bevan.

Michael Bevan is barely scraping by with his used bookstore and rare book collection when he discovers a timeworn journal that may change everything. Dating back to 1768, the tattered diary appears to be a chronicle kept during the first of legendary seafarer Captain James Cook's three epic voyages through the Pacific islands. If it's as valuable as Mike thinks it is, its sale may just bring enough to keep his faltering used bookstore afloat for another year.

Then he meets a pair of London dealers with startling news: Adrian Hart and Penelope Wilkes claim to possess the journal of Cook's second voyage. Is it possible a third diary exists? One which might detail Cook's explosive final voyage--and his death at the hands of native Hawaiians? Together,...


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