Just as soon as I can get back to writing, I’ll take Lee to Hong Kong. After a while I wanted to be somewhere normal.Īpparently I do have a Puritan conscience. Lots of very, very rich and lots of very, very poor with nothing much in between. The class structure in Dubai is skewed into what I used to call a dumbbell curve when I was teaching. Those people stand on the shoulders of other ex-pats – maids, construction workers, taxi drivers. People at the top of the tree make a lot of money and fling it around with abandon. As Lee says in a scene at the Dubai Gold and Diamond Park, “my Puritan soul was revolted.” I never thought of myself as having a Puritan soul, but I was revolted by Dubai. I thought taking Lee there would be a hoot, but I found that the place began to grate on me after a while. It majors in excess, over-the-top business enterprises, buildings, restaurants, hotels, art. What is something that you learned about yourself while writing Dead in Dubai?ĭubai is more glitzy than any other place in the world. I write softer, more humorous, and, as the reader who said I was channeling the classics said, more “world-weary.” She still walks down the same dark streets the guys do, though. I found that I couldn’t write hard-boiled. When I wrote The Spider Catchers, my goal was to create a hard-boiled female character who would walk down the same mean, dark streets the men in thrillers do, but I’m afraid Lee Carruthers turned out rather soft-boiled. A couple of reviewers of The Spider Catchers remarked that my vocabulary was sometimes old-fashioned, and a reader of Dead in Dubai said that I was “channeling classic espionage novels of the past.” I’ve seen those movies too. It takes me back to watching old movies when I was a kid.
Synopsis Courtesy of Marilynn Larew Hott Interview:ĭead in Dubai looks like such an intriguing book. Which man was murdered? Had George really been working for the Agency, or had he sold out and, if so, to whom? Who are the men following her? And why does she keep finding diamonds? With his own, that gave George three identities. She learns that George had worked for each man under a different name, one in Dubai and one in Istanbul.
When she arrives, she walks into a deadly war between rival Merchants of Death for market share. Out of the Agency and looking for work, former CIA analyst Lee Carruthers accepts the request of George’s wife that Lee go to Dubai and find out what really happened.
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