Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha

Fun and entertaining and breaks a bit from the formula.......more

More of the same ... it's a series ... and it's definitely one I'd recommend you read in order.... Context, characters, and experience build throughout.... I found the first installment the most entertaining (creative? cute? unique?), but I'd have abandoned the series long ago, except that my spouse......more

Mrs. Pollifax heads to Hong Kong to investigate a CIA asset who seems to have been feeding the agency incorrect information in this seventh novel devoted to her adventures. Traveling solo, she befriends psychic Mr. Hitchens on the plane ride over, and soon discovers that her new friend's mission - t......more

This was probably my least favorite of the Mrs. Pollifax books. Mrs. Pollifax is as dear and charming as ever with her hat and her willingness to face danger head on. And Robin–I like returning characters. As all of the books are, this one was fast paced and I read it all in one afternoon. The bigges......more

Another mediocre spy story but with enough charming characters and exotic-yet-familiar detail to knock it up to an overall 4 stars and change. This is an immediate sequel to Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station, but set next door in 1985 Hong Kong; i.e., the exact Hong Kong where I spent so much time......more