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Really great story! A good and fast read. This is the first book of Iris Johansen that I've read and am looking forward to reading more. The subtext of the issue of contemporary slavery is treated with honesty and reality.

I call books like these "snack foods". If you want a good suspenseful quick read, Johansen is one author who has mastered that art form. Easy to read, fast paced, characters you care about and characters you want to kill. Like eating snack foods, you're not really hungry but you feel like a part of you wants to be entertained; you have a couple of hours to kill and something to chomp on would be just the ticket. This delicious thriller is about a group of people searching for a lost city, Marinth, that only one man, Paul, has access to a map. He's murdered and his adopted daughter, Melis, inherits everything, including the map. But she has no interest in locating the lost city and its treasures. She'd much rather spend time studying and playing with her 2 dolphins, Pete and Susie. A very wealthy man, Kelby, locates Melis to get her to show him the map and join him in searching for the city. While she is reluctantly considering this, an evil crime lord, Archer, is also looking for the city. He knows a secret about Marinth that would make him far wealthier than all the jewelry and artifacts reported to be in Marinth. As Kelby gets closer to the location of Marinth, he and Melis fall in love (not without some tension of course), Archer docks his huge yacht a couple of miles from Kelby, and the dolphins find some new friends. At this point it's hard to put the book down. Will Archer sabotage Kelby's plans? Will he hurt the dolphins? Will Kelby and Melis stay in love? Will they get to Marinth before Archer? Will the dolphins return from their play with their newfound friends to help Kelby and Melis locate the lost city? A very good snack food that delivers what it promises.

excellent book. Not an Eve Duncan series but very good nonetheless.

WoW! What a great read. I am a slow reader, I still finished this book in 2 days.

Melis Nemid is treading in dangerous waters-and she's about to be dragged under. As a marine researcher, Melis knows all too well the dangers that can lurk under even the calmest surface.