Gain The Case Of The Chinese Boxes (Claudia Valentine, #2) Narrated By Marele Day Rendered As Print

started strong, but the plot focused too much on Claudias life, instincts and skills in a similar way to Eve Zarembas Beyond Hope, At a certain point even the best detectives make mistakes, bad calls, poor choices, but Claudia beavers steadily away at her Chinese puzzle with remarkably little emphasis on actually solving it and lots on just satisfying her own curiosity, which she does admirably.


A decent entry into the feminist detective genre with some great atmospheric Sydney settings, but nothing explosive, Claudia Valentine embarks on a hunt for the elaborate golden dragon key, through a circuit of ancient treasures, modern Triad killings, disturbing kidnappings, sleazy back alleys, pubs, and exotic temples.
fun and a time capsule of inner west Sydney from the lates A good solid holiday read, Feminist enough in the sexpositive Phrynne Fisher sense not to make me want to throw it across the room, Mainly a bunch of tropes, The back of the book says "nothing is what it seems" but if you have read the detective genre before then literally everything is what you'd expect.
It's fun anyway and its minus the misogyny ofof the books,

A bonus for me was the Sydney setting, I love a recognisably Australian setting the more if it's places I have been to, I am going to see if there are more of these because it was fun, It would be even better if it was a little more complex but as holiday reading it is enjoyable and not insulting, Day was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb, She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers College and inobtained a degree from Sydney University, She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during thes, Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney based private investigator but her breakthrough novel was Lambs of God which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers it became a bestseller.
She lives on the New South Wales North coast, Marele Days four book Claudia Valentine series has become a minor classic in Australian crime writing, but her Lambs of Day was born in Sydney, and grew up in Pagewood, an industrial suburb.
She attended Sydney Girls High School and Sydney Teachers' College and inobtained a degree from Sydney University, She has worked as a patent searcher and as a researcher and has also taught in elementary school during thes, Her Claudia Valentine series features a feminist Sydney based private investigator but her breakthrough novel was Lambs of God which was a departure from the crime genre and features two nuns battling to save the island on which they live from developers it became a bestseller.
She lives on the New South Wales North coast, Marele Day's four book Claudia Valentine series has become a minor classic in Australian

crime writing, but her Lambs of Godwas even highly acclaimed as an original and provocative literary work, published in the US by Riverhead and in the UK by Sceptre.
Her most recent novel was Mrs Cook, a rich portrayal of the life of a woman whose passion and intellect matched that of her celebrated husband.
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