Blue Madagascar

I received a free electronic copy of the ARC of this excellent mystery from Netgalley, the author Andrew Kaplan, and the publisher, Smuggler's Lane Press. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. I have read Blue Madagascar of my own volition, and this review reflects my honest opinion of this work. Andrew Kaplan is the author of the Scorpion books, so I was excited to see a new caper at work. I am pleased to recommend him to friends and family. He writes a tight, compelling story that is hard to put down. Casey Ramirez is a feisty woman with lots of confidence and the smarts to back it up. This story takes us all over, from Mexico to Italy and France, to Panama, Serbia, Athens, Cyprus, and here in the states, Dallas, L.A., D.C., and Miami. We spend quite a lot of time in Portland, Maine. There is enough detail of time and place to make you long to travel, and the tension racks up with each passing chapter. It is often hard to tell the good guys from the bad, and we have politics intermixed with crimes galore. At times it is almost too close to what our nation has lived through over the last several years. But Kaplan wraps it up nicely in the end. Would that we could write a clever ending to our own political woes! I hope we will see more of Casey. I really enjoyed her.