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Posing in Paradise (Harry Reese Mysteries Book 6) Kindle Edition

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In 1905, the great Henry James arrives in Northampton, Massachusetts, to deliver a lecture to the local literati. He is feted in a grand style—and so is the Englishman impersonating him.

In the meantime, a vacationing Harry Reese has stumbled upon a body marinating in an abandoned canal bed. But rather than report the corpse, Harry decides to use it to distract his wife Emmie from her own literary ambitions. Then the body vanishes. Twice.

These two plots, each sufficiently ludicrous in its own right, coalesce to produce a truly remarkable story, one that dares to answer the age-old question: is it possible for a man to drown in his blancmange?

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N5JZN5X
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Street Car Mysteries (February 2, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 2, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3835 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 282 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

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Robert Bruce Stewart
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Finding himself misplaced in the 21st century, Robert Bruce Stewart has opted to retire to what he hopes will be a more congenial era for a person of his sensibilities by means of fiction writing.

Meanwhile, his temporal self lives with his wife and cat in a small-town hermitage in western Massachusetts where he spends his idle hours tending to the needs of tadpoles and keeping his ill-mannered bamboo grove in check.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2018
    Well, if you do, then this is for you! BUT IF YOU DON’T REMEMBER THEM, THEN THIS IS STILL FOR YOU! Harry is perpetually in the dark, bemused, in love with Emmy. She is inscrutably in love with him, and she is always waiting with the apparently unaware comeback, the one-step-ahead-of-him stinger, the ‘you haven’t figured this out yet’ smirk, and all so blinking-eye sweetly, modesty in service of saving his ego! And Harry is somehow aware that he is SO far behind her, but plodding onward courageously, and lo’ and behold, occasionally adding a bit of info to their sleuthing. What wonderful plotting, and what great, so-memorable characters! APPLAUSE! ENCORE! ENCORE!
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2017
    Unlike all other prior volumes, here the Reeses seem to be brittle and their banter seems to have become close to caustic. Other characters seem simply irritating. The situation's convolutions acquire a diminishing ability to hold the attention of the reader in comparison to the vortex of gyrating plot twists going on in real life 2017.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2017
    This book is for readers who enjoy humorous first-person narratives (Harry the husband), set in the past (1905), that take delicious pleasure in literate wordplay (not as much as another book in the series). And if you are fond of historical farces, you'll enjoy this book (the series, really) even more. I enjoy the series, and I loved this book.

    Harry the narrator promises us a “ludicrous saga” right off the bat, and he doesn't disappoint. Harry and Emmie, his eccentric wife, visit her equally eccentric family, multiplying the crazy antics that always seem to occur around Emmie, and by extension of marriage, Harry. The author is wonderful at creating oddball minor characters, and we get plenty in this book, each a joy to spend time with.

    Harry and Emmie have been compared by reviewers to The Thin Man book and film series' Nick and Nora Charles, and their later incarnations the Harts of TV's Hart to Hart. But in this book, Emmie is off her sleuthing game due to an obsession with her writing career (that refuses to take flight). Desperate to get his entertaining and unpredictable wife back, Harry tries to tempt her away from the typewriter with a dead body he happens across.

    Things get crazier with each page, as lots of people pose to be different people for various reasons. All the twists and turns are presented to us in Harry's inimitable quick-talking, sarcastic comic style. By trade an insurance investigator, he is in reality just this side of being a conman, something his wife admires in her sly way.

    We can count on Harry to unravel the crime story, while keeping us entertained with his antics to restore Emmie to her old self. There are references to other books in the series, which I found fun, since I've read all the books in the series (and the side series from Emmie's perspective). I recommend the whole series, but if you start with this book, the asides about the previous books will, I hope, not confuse you, but actually entice you to dive into them.

    If you love literate, historical, intelligent, comic novels, and are a perceptive reader who can see beneath the words to the love that binds Harry and Emmie, then you'll get the most out of these unique and very entertaining books. I received a review-copy of the book. This is my honest review. I sincerely hope there will be many more books to come!
  • Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2017
    <b>First things first: I need to mention I received a copy of this book from author in exchange for an honest review. This had no influence on the review whatsoever.</b>

    Whoever reads this review is most probably unfamiliar with the Reeses as the series is sadly relatively unknown. Without the knowledge of their characters the events of the book make exactly zero sense.

    The best way to describe Emmie Reese would be to say she resembles Lucy Ricardo - a lot. As everybody even briefly familiar with the classic sitcom knows Lucy always wanted to be in the show. She would do anything to achieve her dream, no matter how crazy or outlandish. Emmie had a different dream: she always wanted to participate in a murder investigation. Her schemes aiming at this purpose make those of Lucy look tame and boring. Sufficient to say at one point she considered creating a dead body (by the most obvious and direct method) because she could not find any murder to investigate.

    Harry Reese was an insurance fraud investigator. Poor guy resembles Ricky Ricardo in the sense that he had to equally suffer because of his wife's actions. Unlike Ricky though he did not fight and just went with the flow. In the beginning he did try to resist, but not for long. As a result his actions sometimes rivals those of Emmie in craziness. Takes together these two distort reality (Harry's own expression) and force logic to make hasty retreat in panic.

    Now I can try to describe the plot without the fear that in would sound like I used mind-altering drags writing this. Despite what I said about Emmie she completely lost interest in murders spending all her time writing fiction hoping for a big break as a writer. Having one's work published is the biggest obstacle for a new writer wannabe, so she devoted all her energies to get a publisher interested in her work.

    It so happened that none other than Henry James (by the way Harry described his books as the best cure for insomnia and having read The Turn of the Screw I completely agree) decided to visit her hometown and give a speech. Such an opportunity was too good to pass, so Emmie announced she wanted to visit her mother. Harry knew right away that something was cooking, but he was broke at the moment and in debt to a gambler who had a <s>gorilla</s> goon in his employ to collect money. First visit from a nice friendly <s>gorilla</s> goon convinced Harry visiting his mother-in-law might not be such a bad idea.

    So far so good? It turns out Emmie's mother needed help with her nephews and a niece - I will not waste time describing their problems, but they had them by truckloads. Harry also lucked out (this is what he thought) and found a dead body. He hoped this would be enough to bring Emmie around to investigate, but nothing - and I do mean: nothing - is ever simple with Reeses. Sufficient to say it turned out the body possessed a great deal of mobility.

    So we have Harry working on rekindling Emmie interests in crime investigation, him helping her get an invitation to a dinner attended by Henry James, him helping her rival to prevent her from attending the dinner (remember: reality distortion), and him trying to rein in her relatives. This is just Harry's problems. Do not let me started on Emmie's.

    All of these already bizarre threads interconnect creating something completely out of this world. As you can guess the book (and the whole series) is strongly character-driven. They are highly humorous with the humor reminding me of P.G. Wodehouse. I laughed probably just two times reading, but chuckled practically non-stop at the absurdity of situations and the fact that they looked practically normal from the right angle.

    If you became interested in the series my personal recommendation would be to start with Kalorama Shakedown, however this book can work as a standalone.
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