Death Dances to a Reggae Beat

Death Dances to a Reggae Beat is a mystery set against Caribbean music and island atmosphere. Behind the bright rhythm lies crime, and the novel contrasts the light of a tourist setting with tangled human motives.

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Work Information

On an island pulsing with reggae, death steps into the sunlight.

Kate Grilley’s mystery uses tropical color, music, and the looseness of a resort setting to sharpen the unease of crime. It is recorded as an Anthony Award work, with no confirmed Japanese translation.

Review Summaries

Readers tend to note the combination of lively setting and mystery. It is received more as a brisk atmospheric read than as a puzzle built around elaborate deduction.

Book Information

Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2000-06-12
Pages: 262 pages
Language: 英語
Size: 10.82 x 1.91 x 17.12 cm
ISBN-13: 9780425175064
ISBN-10: 0425175065
Price: 17761 JPY
Category: 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Women Sleuths

General manager of a radio station on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Kelly Ryan is delighted by her new life in paradise, until she stumbles upon the corpse of a tourist, a loud-mouthed woman found impaled by a spear.

Kate Grilley is a native Chicagoan who has lived in the Virgin Islands for the last twenty years . An award-winning writer, Ms. Grilley lives in Christiansted, a resort town in St. Croix, and works as a mortgage broker on St. Thomas. Her first Kelly Ryan mystery was Death Dances to a Reggae Beat .

Reviews

don't break de lime m' son.

St.Chris, St. Croix, whatever. I lived on the island in my early twenties, and kate captured the essence of life as a transplant from stateside. I had fun reading her story as fluffy as it was yet at the same time recalling wonderful memories of life in C'sted. Looking forward to reading the next two books. Now I know where I'm going to spend my next summer vacation.