Sailing to Capri [Import] [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Adler (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (October 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340896612
• ISBN-13: 978-0340896617
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Adler is a self-confessed romantic, a travel addict and a foodie, all of which she brings to the reader in her novels, along with a tough thrust of suspense and an unfolding mystery that keeps you on your toes. Elizabeth has lived in many countries and when she's not writing spends time discovering even more places to bring to you, with her husband, Richard - still in love after all these years - as are the characters featured in her past three novels, Mac Reilly the Malibu PI and Sunny Alvarez, his lover and side kick. You have to read about them to know them! Elizabeth lives in California and has the ability to take you to all those romantic places she knows so well, Capri, Venice, Tuscany, St. Tropez, Monte Carlo, and of course, Malibu. You will feel you are there, with her, sitting on that Italian terrace, sipping that coffee, smelling the delicious food, savoring the heat and the sunshine and the mystery unfolding for you. Elizabeth is five-three and wishes she were taller, blind as a bat without her glasses that anyway she is too vain to wear, and at 128 lbs till thinking about that diet. She has one daughter, Anabelle who is married to rock musician Eric Avery and two kitties, the Siamese, Sweet Pea who rules the household, and an adorable black cat Sunny.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth Adler, Take Me Away!, August 3, 2006

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Antoinette Klein (Hoover, Alabama USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sailing to Capri (Hardcover)

No one does armchair traveling mixed with romantic suspense better than world-traveler and world-class writer Elizabeth Adler. If you're longing for a bit of respite from the everyday doldrums, you will find this fantasy trip more than satisfying.

Daisy Keene has bottomed out on luck and love when a not-at-all-handsome stranger picks her up at a party and takes her to dinner. She spends the next five years as Bob Hardwick's trusted assistant and friend, only to be devastated when he is killed and aghast when she discovers it was murder.

Enter handsome investigator Harry Montana, hired previously by Hardwick who suspected someone was out to kill him. Per Hardwick's last wishes, a group of suspects is assembled and invited to cruise to Capri for the reading of the will. An extremely generous monetary gift for taking the cruise plus the anticipation of what they might receive in the will lures each of the suspects aboard. The suspects, hand-picked by Hardwick, are: Lady Diane Hardwick, ex-wife; Filomena Algardi, ex-mistress; Charles Clement, ex-friend; Davis Farrell, ex-business partner; Marius Dopplemann, ex-business acquaintance; and Rosalia Alonzo Ybarra, the true love of Hardwick's life.

The sparks fly and personalities clash as secrets are revealed and past sins exposed. Amidst the lush beauty of Sorrento and the fashionable charm of Saint-Tropez, readers are led on a merry adventure and a bit of steamy romance as the fabulous ship moves steadily toward Capri. Adler takes a clue from Agatha Christie as she assembles the suspects and allows the killer to be revealed amdist surprising twists.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Light and Easy Reading - Great Beach Read, October 7, 2006

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This review is from: Sailing to Capri (Hardcover)

I thought this was a charming change of pace for Elizabeth Adler, whose books take me places I've never traveled and describes them in such an appealing way. As with many of her other books, her central character is a decent person that you can sympathize with, but who encounters the affluent and travels to beautiful and exotic locations (at least to those of us living regular lives). As a result, you can relate to the character while enjoying the sumptuous surroundings and shops.

In the span of this book, we were transported from a winter blizzard in England to a cruise with stops at ports like St. Tropez, Monaco and Capri. We have the usual romantic suspense storyline that has the typical Adler happy ending.

While I can't say the suspense had me at the edge of my chair, I read for entertainment and don't always want to be so anxious that I'm tense and nervous.

I found this an enjoyable and light story with enough suspense and varied characters and situations to be interesting but not nerve wracking - a perfect beach read.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Agatha Christie Wears Escada, August 22, 2006

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If you've enjoyed escaping into Ms. Adler's travelogue romances in the past, you'll be sorely disappointed by Sailing to Capri. The better half of this book is a contrived 'from the grave' mystery with characters that couldn't be more stereotypical if they had been chosen from an updated Clue game box. Gone are the luscious descriptions of shops and restaurants, with the exception of a too brief afternoon at Le Club 55 in St. Tropez. Instead, we get sloppy mistakes - jokey characters named 'Texas' and 'Montana,' baby grand pianos that are white in one chapter and black in another, a songtress that only seems to know two songs - Smoke Get In Your Eyes and Body and Soul - and a blatent pitch for one of Ms. Adler's earlier (and much more enjoyable) books, The Last Time I Saw Paris. Let's hope she gives up aspirations of 'Mary Higgin Clark Wore Prada' and goes back to what she delivers best - in books like Hotel Rivera and Summer in Tuscany.