| Title | : | Cast In Stone (Leo Waterman, #2) |
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| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1611097304 |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 329 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1996 |
Cast In Stone (Leo Waterman, #2) Reviews
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A Mistake is a Clue.
Leo Waterman and his mates are searching for a woman who is dead. Leo believes she faked her death and is missing.
He has a lot of work to do. A lot of years to cover and a ton of miles to find her.
He is unable to find her anywhere. No one has any idea where she is located. The past is looked into and she is apparently unknown.
While reading this book, I noticed that the author made a mistake in one of her chapters. The comment later turned out to be a clue.
This is a very interesting book. Also very amusing. The other characters and Leo are full of life and are very funny.
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His website has a quote from Kirkus Reviews, "G.M. Ford is well on his way to becoming the Raymond Chandler of Seattle." I don't think so ...but if they had said instead, "G.M. Ford is becoming the west coast's Lawrence Block." Well then, no argument here, cause I feel the same way about Ford as I do Block, as in special. Now, I'm not saying Chandler ain't special, he is, only he's a different kind of special.
Chandler is like all introspective and moody while Ford and Block they're like sly. They may tell a violent tale or two but the whole time they're telling it, they're still poking you in the ribs. Like Leo Waterman, that's Ford's guy, he'll make some smart alec remark while you're pointing a gun or a knife at him and then while you're trying to think up a clever retort, he'll smack you over the head. It's not really fair but that's OK with Leo, cause being fair ain't one of his hang ups.
Leo has a host of cohorts who spend their time trying to survive their last bout of drinking while looking for a way to make some change in order to start the next, and Leo is frequently doling out the change is search of some investigative assistance. The assistance is often marginal but then, so is the change.
Anyway the story is about this creepy Black Widow spider kind of woman, who Leo and the boys have to get wise to and then track her down and it makes for a really good read.
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I listened to this audiobook over a two day marathon grass cutting session. Good characters and humor. A good plot line with enough twists to keep me guessing right up to the end. The story moved along easily and was well paced up until the last 10% or so. Then it rocketed to the finish line.
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Better than the first one, not as good as the newer one I started with. Love the characters and story pace. I also like that it is a decent mystery without traumatizing the reader but, yet it is not a cozy mystery.
I liked how Leo worked his way back to learn more about his investigation. Love Carl. Just started the third book in the series. -
another romp around Seattle with Leo Watermann and The Boys.
Hugely fun. :) -
I like the Leo Waterman character. Enjoyed this book very much for several reasons. Maybe I miss Seattle more than I thought I did.
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Seattle, 1995. The detective is hunting for an elusive woman who, he gradually becomes sure, is an almost unbelievable monster. Throughout the entire book she is never on stage until the final pages--we only see her effects on other people. But the big finish left me a bit unsatisfied. It all went too easily. The usual clever wise-cracks, spot-on dialogue, and well-drawn characters. And G.M. Ford is a master of the tiny detail. Towards the end, the detective is standing outside a porno shop called the Pleasure Palace, on the corner of Second and Pike. "I grabbed the sticky door handle and went inside." Ewww.
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CAST IN STONE - Ex
Ford, G.M. - 2nd in Leo Waterman series
Asked to find the reason behind the death of an old friend's son, Leo and his Irregulars follow a paper trail that takes them from Seattle to Wisconsin, where they uncover a puzzling and tragic story from the past.
1997 Top Read - This is an excellent PI series. Great characters. -
This is another solid PI novel by Mr. Ford with a good plot, plenty of action, a set of complex characters and enough believable mystery to keep it interesting throughout. If this was a James Lee Burke novel, I can see how it could have run this novel to 800 pages. I appreciate Mr. Ford's concise style.
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Book 2 in the Leo Waterman series. Leo's crew is back and helping him with a new case. Leo's good friend Heck's son and daughter-in-law die in a boating accident but Heck wasn't sure it was just an accident. Heck's wife asks Leo to investigate. Some interesting twists and turns in this book with an unexpected ending.
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Leo Waterman is like a dog with a bone. He won't give it up! Another great story from G M ford featuring PI Leo Waterman. When his childhood friend is killed, Leo finds out who did it, stopping at nothing to get him the person responsible! Good Read!!!
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Always action packed and full of familiar places if you live in the area. Leo seems to fall into trouble but always solves the case with the help of his homeless on the street associates. Fun and funny lines to remember GM Ford has a great sense of humor.
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You will be hooked with the first sentence.
The boys and Leo Waterman are back. They keep you reading, wondering how this thrill ride going to end. Characters sometimes laughable, sometimes makes you feeling sick to your stomach. Liked other G.M. Ford books more. -
Love Leo and the boys. Very good read ,.This series is loaded with great gusto.
Would highly recommend. Read and enjoy the laughs along the way.Leo and the boys are like family to me now. -
Waterman, with the help of his homeless derelicts, try to find a scam artist. The trail leads across country from Seattle to Wisconsin, with numerous victims. A twist or two along the way keeps the reader turning the pages.
Very well done. -
Lots of twists and turns in this plot, fast moving pace.
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Terrific! Kept me guessing until the end...
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The second appearance by G.M. Ford’s Leo Waterman reminds Mister Liberryhead a lot of No.6 in John D. MacDonald’s classic Travis McGee series, BRIGHT ORANGE FOR THE SHROUD. Both feature a frail-looking, sexually adept blonde who thrives like a black widow spider – remorselessly feeding on a mate until he’s broke and drained dry. As a witness to this technique says in CAST IN STONE: “She never lets anything go. With her, nobody gets out alive” (314). A waterfront hero from Leo’s salad days, “Heck” Sundstrom, lands in a coma while looking into his unshared suspicions about the circumstances surrounding the death of his newlywed son. Leo takes up the case. By his own admission, he operates on the same principle as all unrelenting PIs: “I just go around turning over rocks, waiting to see what crawls out” (p174). The deep-rooted Seattle atmosphere, Leo’s colorful cast of supporting players and a narrator who doesn’t take himself very seriously, makes CAST IN STONE a diverting, if not McGee-quality, mystery.
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I like the Leo Waterman character and find his mentoring relationship with the "boys" peculiar, but endearing. After starting this 2nd installment in the series, I thought it was going splendidly. I was enjoying the writing and following the early plot development. Something happened to me after Heck's Sundstrom's boating accident when Allison Stark (his new wife) appeared. I began losing my grasp of the story and found it difficult to keep track of the characters, their roles/relationships, and circumstances. I finished the book, but was perplexed and disappointed because I experienced no resolution or "AHA" moment. I will resist faulting the author because most of the reviews have been excellent (4-5 stars). Clearly, I missed something or let my attention wander to my own detriment. Perhaps I will try rereading "Cast In Stone" at a future date to see if I can improve my rating. In any event, I am planning to continue with installment #3, "The Bum's Rush," after a short hiatus...
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Cast in Stone is the second book in the Leo Waterman mystery series. Leo is a private investigator in Seattle, with a very unorthodox practice. He hires four old winos to help with his investigations! Parts of the story are hilarious, others are deadly serious. I enjoyed this book, thus the 4 star rating, but the middle dragged a little for me.
Leo is hired by his friend Marge to investigate the boating accident where her son and new daughter-in-law were killed. Marge never liked or trusted her son's wife Alison, and thinks the whole accident seems very suspicious. As Leo tries to figure out what happened, he digs into Alison's past and comes up with red flags everywhere and more dead people than he ever expected. -
This was a neat little novel that held my interest and kept me turning pages well past midnight on a work night. G.M. Ford's hero, PI Leo Waterman has wit and brains and is practical in doing what needs to be done. In this installment, Waterman has a fair share of personal interest as the suspect may or may not have harmed people close to him. The dialogue was at times top shelf. My only disappointment was that the ending seemed rushed and just a little bit trite. Definitely a solid four star selection.
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Great book, very confusing ending.
I went back and reread the final four chapters several times. What am I missing? Some serious leaps of logic and plot occurred to bring this story to a close. It was almost like the author thought he had two weeks to wrap up the story, and his published called and said “Wrap it up, its going to press tonight!” I have really enjoyed the Leo Waterman stories so far, and hope that more of them don’t end like this one does. -
Despite the huge cast of players the author never misses to paint everyone with such a colorful character and background. I find myself laughing at the banters and quick quips especially with the golden boys.
Also, I almost miss the Tony case parallelism towards the end.
4 stars
