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    Relative Danger

    By Charles Benoit

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    "Smashingly good, action-packed."—Publishers Weekly STARRED review

    "Every element of this rollicking adventure shines."—Booklist STARRED review

    In Pottsville, Pennsylvania, young Doug Pearce, just fired from his steady job in the brewery, has never strayed far from home. But he's always been fascinated by stories of his Uncle Russ, the family black sheep murdered in Singapore in 1948. In comes a letter from an old friend of his dead uncle inviting him to Toronto. On arrival, Doug learns that wealthy and glamorous Edna has an agenda: she's assembled enough clues to solve the murder and recover a legendary red diamond Russ was thought to be smuggling.

    Doug, nervous but game, agrees to play detective. But by the end of his first day in Casablanca, Doug knows he's made a mistake. While he meets people eager to help—a retired museum curator, a beautiful and self-absorbed heiress, and her elderly father, a colleague of Russell Pearce—it becomes clear that someone else is looking for the diamond.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateJan 31, 2012
    ISBN9781615950133
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    Relative Danger
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    Charles Benoit

    Charles Benoit'steen novels include Cold Calls, Snow Job,Fall from Grace and You, an American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. A former high school teacher, Charles is also the Edgar-nominated author of three adult mysteries. He lives in Rochester, New York. Visit him on the web at www.charlesbenoit.com or follow him on Twitter (@BenoitTheWriter).

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    • 4/5
      Took a while to get into, but turned out to be a good and very funny story.
    • 3/5
      A fairly engaging read, with a cast of interesting side characters and locales making up for the rather dim protagonist. His style of relating the story contains some humor, which is his best quality, and he eventually figures some things out. His epiphany is rather trite, but perhaps appropriate for the sort of thinker he appears to be.
    • 5/5
      Synopsis: Douglas grew up wondering about the relative no one would talk about, Uncle Russ. Living in a small town, working in a beer refinery left Douglas fantasizing about the exciting life his uncle must have lived before he was murdered in Singapore. Surprisingly, Doug receives a phone call from Edna, one of Russell's old friends; thus begins Doug's adventures in Morocco, Cairo, and Singapore to discover how Russ really died and what happened to a grape-size red diamond.Review: This book was a lot of fun to read. In some ways it is a 'coming of age' tale, while in others it harkens back to a young Indiana Jones. Having visited the locals, the descriptions took me back to the winding alleyways and the mysterious, sometimes threatening natives. It's too bad that Benoit has abandoned adult books and is writing young adult/children's fiction.