The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433264889 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When Carol receives an unaddressed, blurred photo her father, who had been missing and feared dead for years, she takes up a perilous quest in a strange and ancient world to find the parent she thought she had lost forever.
She also wrote bestselling books under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels.Grace Conlin (1962-1997) was the recording name of Grainne Cassidy, an award-winning actress and acclaimed narrator. Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was a New York Times bestselling author whose novels were often set
Anne Wingate said Four Hundred Rabbits Are Drunk. amazon.com/gp/product/B000FCKRII/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_imgElizabeth Peters was still looking for her own voice when she wrote THE NIGHT OF FOUR HUNDRED RABBITS. The title refers to Aztec law: degrees of intoxication were described as numbers of rabbits, and it was illegal for anyone under fifty years old to become four hundred rabbits. The law wasn't a minor one; the penalty was death.In this book, a young woman is lured to Mexico to locate her father, who abruptly left his country, wife, child, and job when she was twelve years old. As a mystery, it works very well; as a romantic suspense, it works reasonably well. It just doesn't have. Mystery loves history said Historical(?) Thriller. It's been years since I lost my paperback copy of this book. It seems funny now to be reading it as a historical thriller the way I would read one of her Amelia Peabody stories. However, the story hasn't lost any of its punch. All the issues they projected about drug use plague us today. Carol is a likeable heroine and Tom Andres, the DEA agent is good; I liked him much better than her boyfriend Danny from the start.This is a book well worth re-reading.. Lori said Dated, but still--It's Elizabeth Peters. I lost a lot of my books recently due to a moisture problem that caused a couple of my books to grow a toxic mold. Since all my books were stored together, I had to discard even the seemingly unaffected books because of the mold spores. I have been working on restoring my collection, mostly on Kindle. But many of my old favorites are not available on Kindle. This was on the list of books I had tossed so I decided to replace it. I'm glad I got it, but upon re-reading I couldn't believe how dated it was. There are a lot of reviews that go into the inaccuracies of the plot and the inadequacies of Ms. Peter's early writing style, so I wo
She also wrote bestselling books under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels.Grace Conlin (1962-1997) was the recording name of Grainne Cassidy, an award-winning actress and acclaimed narrator. She earned a PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She was a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and won a Helen Hayes Award in 1988 for her role in Woolly Mammoth's production of Savage in Limbo.. About the AuthorElizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was a New York Times bestselling author whose novels were often set against historical backdrops