{"id":132,"date":"2014-09-11T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=132"},"modified":"2014-09-11T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T13:44:14","slug":"to-sketch-a-thief-by-sharon-pape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"To Sketch a Thief by Sharon Pape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Title<\/strong>: To Sketch a Thief by Sharon Pape
\nScored a<\/strong>: B+
\nStatus<\/strong>: Finished!<\/p>\n

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I was just trying to download my kindle library onto my new ipad when I got sick of babysitting the little bars and I clicked on a book at random. Later I surfaced, having read the entirety of To Sketch a Thief.<\/p>\n

It’s the sequel to ‘Sketch Me If You Can<\/a>‘ and the adventures of Rory, no longer a sketch artist but a PI, and her ghost Zeke.<\/p>\n

In this one we delve more into why Zeke’s dead (not just being killed, there’s details), and a new character is added to the cast: Hobo the Dog. Seen on the cover. Hobo is a nice dog. I like Hobo.<\/p>\n

Plot: Rory finds an errant dog and takes him home. Unfortunately his owner’s been murdered, and her other dog, a show-quality maltese, is also missing. Rory is hired by the woman’s friend not to solve the murder (that’s police business now) but to crack a dognapping ring that may have stolen the dead woman’s dog and her friend’s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I liked it! Enough that I entered into a timewarp when I meant to just glance at it. The murder mystery part was satisfying and well plotted, I enjoyed the look into Zeke’s life. The characters were fleshed out and the interactions were good readin’.<\/p>\n

The parts I didn’t like so much is that Rory and Zeke fought overly much so that every morning scene was ‘the rift between us from last night’ to the point of overuse, and I didn’t feel quite satisfied with how the dognapping case tied up.<\/p>\n

That said, this is a pretty good mystery and I’ll be buying the next in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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