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The Serpent's Daughter: A Jade Del Cameron Mystery (Jade del Cameron Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Suzanne Arruda
Publisher: NAL Hardcover
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0451222946
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451222947
ASIN: 0451222946
Publication Date: January 2, 2008
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Joining her mother for a holiday in the ancient port city of Tangier, American adventuress Jade del Cameron expects their trip will be far less dangerous than her safaris in East Africa. But soon after their introduction to a group of European tourists, Do a del Cameron goes missing- victim of an apparent kidnapping-and, shockingly, the French authorities seek to arrest Jade for the murder of a man whose body she discovered in a series of ancient tunnels. Now, Jade must call upon her friends to find her mother and expose the true villains, who have every intention of bringing about her own destruction...
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Armchair Adventure on the Distaff Side February 15, 2008
Story Circle Book Reviews (www.storycirclebookreviews.org)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What if Indiana Jones were a woman? No, this isn't about a spicy gender revelation, but rather a rip-roaring adventure set in North Africa in the 1920s. Jade del Cameron drove an ambulance in France during World War I. After the war, she went to Africa instead of returning to the United States. In this third book in the series--Mark of the Lion and Stalking Ivory are the first two--she travels to Morocco to attempt a reconciliation with her Spanish-born mother, Dona Inez Maria Isabella de Vincente del Cameron.
Things don't go well. Dona Inez disappears, Jade discovers a dead body, and she just might be hearing voices from hundreds of years ago. After Jade gets out of the Caves of Hercules, watch out. There are escapes and rescues from crumbling mansions, arduous journeys, wise women, slave traders, and mystical symbols in abundance. Jade is strong, smart, and an expert at using whatever comes to hand: at one point, a rather annoyed snake.
This is the kind of book I would have devoured at fifteen, or twenty-five. It is full of women. Women who regret. Women who reflect. Women who act. Women who keep secrets. Women who hold power. Women who are generous, selfish, silly, nefarious, and brave.
I admit to having a bit of trouble with the style at first. In fact, I had previously tried Stalking Ivory, and put it down after a few chapters. When I realized that the author had adopted a story-telling method to reflect the way stories were written in the 1920s, I fell in love with the book. I'm anxious, now, to go on to the other two in the series.
by Sharon Wildwind
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
 terrific action-packed historical thriller January 5, 2008
Harriet Klausner
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
In 1920, photojournalist Jade del Cameron reluctantly agrees to meet her prim and proper mother Inez in Tangier, Morocco in hopes they can reconcile their contentious relationship. However, Jade is realistic as she loves globetrotting explorations into out of the way trouble spots while mother is a perfect lady who never perspires let alone sweats.
In Tangier, someone kidnaps Inez. An anxious Jade may feel the planet is not big enough for both of them, but she still loves her mother. She begins a frantic quest to find and rescue Inez with clues taking her to Marrakech and from there to a remote mountainous Berber village. Every step she takes step since starting in Algiers is dangerous especially eluding slave traders who want to sell her and the most dangerous person of all Lilith Worthy.
This terrific action-packed thriller will grip readers from the moment Inez is abducted and never let's go until the final confrontation. The story line is fast-paced especially when Jade is on mission. However, the plot slows down a bit as Suzanne Arruda packs the tale with a deep look at 1920 Morocco especially the Berbers. Fans of historical thrillers will want to read Jade del Cameron third adventure although the previous two contain more of a mystery (see STALKING IVORY and MARK OF THE LION).
Harriet Klausner
Love Jade Del Cameron... June 1, 2008
Sonny Day (San Francisco, CA United States)
I have read all three of the Jade Del Cameron mysteries and have loved going on adventures with her. I have a real interest in Africa and its history and I appreciate Suzanne Arruda's attention to detail. I love that Ms. Arruda chose a strong and beautiful heroine, Jade, as the star of her series.
Jade Goes to Morocco June 25, 2008
Kara J. Jorges (Minneapolis)
Jade del Cameron switches locales from British East Africa to Morocco in her latest adventure, for a meeting with her almost estranged mother in Tangier. They've barely had breakfast and their usual disagreement their first day there, however, before Jade's mother goes missing. Since there isn't much in Tangier in the way of authority, Jade takes matters into her own hands and starts searching by herself, though she sends a quick cable to her friends Beverly and Avery Dunbury, who are back in London awaiting the birth of their first child, and asks for their assistance. Not one to sit back and wait, Jade rents a car and follows a lead to Marrakech, where she finds a dead man's body and has a bizarre experience in some tunnels. Jade's only suspects in her mother's disappearance are some of the shipmates with whom she traveled to Tangier from London, but it really raises her suspicions when she finds out that her mother has met her chief adversary, Lilith Worthy, the mother of her dead almost-fiance. When Jade is reunited with her mother, they hide out in a Berber mountain village, and then help from the Dunburys finally arrives in the form of Jade's love interest from her last adventure, Sam Featherstone. Together, Jade, Sam, her mother, and some of her new friends unravel the mystery of what Lilith is up to, but it is no easy task, as Lilith is determined to do away with Jade once and for all.
It was easy to slip back into Jade del Cameron's African life, even though she was visiting a different part of the continent for this novel. Descriptions of the places and people were as vivid as ever, but this time out, Jade seemed to spend more time getting captured and escaping from her enemies than actually solving a mystery, as if that part of the story was more of an afterthought. The conflict between Jade and her mother was laid on a trifle thick, as well, but it was fun to finally meet Inez. Though the mystery aspect in this book was weaker than in the other Jade del Cameron novels, this was still a very engaging story with rich descriptions of Morocco. The asides on Berber culture and its difference from Arab culture were also points of interest. As usual, though, it was Jade herself who made the novel so much fun to read. She's down to earth, fearless, and always ready for adventure, so I can't wait until her next one.
Jade heads northwest this time August 8, 2008
John S. Geary (Vancouver, B.C., Canada)
In her previous two Jade del Cameron novels, the author set her heroine's adventures in Kenya. This time, the part-time sleuth/part-time travel writer finds herself in Morocco, on a mission to save her mother and herself from the clutches of her arch-nemisis.
It took me a while to warm up to this one, simply because I loved the East Africa setting of her first two novels. But Jade is as feisty and brilliant as ever in this third book. And as in her other two books, Arruda has woven a mystical/spiritual aspect into the fabric of this story, in a wholly believable way.
I can hardly wait for the next book in the series!
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