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Talking Rain: A Professo (Professor Teodora Morelli Mystery)

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Good technical stuff on marquetry, salvage diving, professional wrestling, German lieder and history of the NorthWest. I shall order the Adventures of John Jewitt from Amazon. I couldn't figure why someone raised by the Nootka could speak Chinook though. (Amazon has Greenberg's Language in the Americas but Campbell's Languages of Native America is out of print) Plot believability was a problem. A hidden map leading to buried treasure and an amateur sleuth who takes over from the bumbling police. Great descriptions of Vancouver Island. Two pairs of sisters - sub-plot about two sisters with one recalling a horrible childhood and the other not- maybe s literary novel waiting to get out. Some cliches "the room was a shambles" "surveying the scene." People grimace, squint and shrug a lot.

I can't wait for the next adventure. Especially enjoyed the story around Tabor...some of it had me in stitches. I hope to see more of her. I have never been to the Northwest, but French's descripitons were so vivid, I could just "feel" the area.

I've been in a reading slump for quite some time...I swear all the series I was reading ended. One day I came home and my mom gave me this book. I didn't really want to read it, but I sat down and started. I was so into it I couldn't put it down! About a month after I had read it I had to read it agian. I can't wait for the next one to come out! If anyone knows when it does, I'd appreciate if you'd email me and let me know.