Tropic of Night, Michael Gruber
Tropic of Night, Michael Gruber
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Tropic of Night

Author: Michael Gruber

Narrator: Margaret Whitton

Abridged: 5 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/04/2005

Synopsis

Jane Doe was a promising anthropologist, an expert on shamanism. Now she's nothing, a shadow living under an assumed identity in Miami with a little girl to protect. Everyone thinks she's dead. Or so Jane hopes.Then the killings start, a series of ritualistic murders that terrifies all of Miami. The investigator is Jimmy Paz, a Cuban-American police detective. There are witnesses, but they can recall almost nothing of the events, as though their memory has been erased -- as if a spell has been cast on each of them. Equally bizarre is the string of clues Paz uncovers: a divination charm, exotic drugs found in the bodies of the victims, a century-old report telling of a secret place in the heart of Africa.These clues point Paz inexorably toward the fugitive, Jane Doe, and force Jane to realize that the darkness she has fled is hunting her down. By the time her path intersects with Jimmy Paz's, the two will be thrust into a cataclysmic battle with an evil unimaginable to the Western mind.Performed by Margaret Whitton.

About Michael Gruber

New York Times bestselling author Michael Gruber is the author of five acclaimed novels. He lives in Seattle.

About Margaret Whitton

Margaret Whitton's performing career includes extensive work on and off Broadway, numerous television appearances, and roles in such films as Major League, The Man Without a Face, and Ironweed.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on August 18, 2021

Michael Gruber - image from GR This is first-rate, a gripping detective read from start to finish, replete with tons of payload about the world of “magic.” There is particular emphasis on cultic practices in Africa and the Caribbean with notice of remote Siberian beliefs as well. Gruber's site Others......more

Goodreads review by Harry on August 05, 2012

If you're reading this review of the Jimmy Paz series than you've read them all. In my opinion this series is remarkable for its intelligence, its strong plot and, it's philosphical world view and psychological depth of characters. Mixing murder with ethnography and sorcery, Gruber brings us a fasci......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on March 08, 2014

This is a new addition to my shelf. I've read it once before, and on this second read I realized it was one I would want to read again and that I would want to read it again whenever I wanted (meaning I don't want to wait till its available at the library) so I bought it. On one level it is a supern......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 22, 2011

First, you need to know there is a glossary in the back. Wish I had known that when I started. Alujonnu is an evil spirit; ama is head; dulfna is aura of witchcraft, ilegbo is to enter trance and a zandoul is a container for magical objects...you get the idea. There are few dozen terms. Doesn't hurt......more

Goodreads review by Claudia on February 27, 2025

This was an astonishing read. Slow start, but to me it felt consistent with the simmering, humid heat in Florida. The narrator's voice captured me, and I had no doubt that she was going to take me somewhere interesting. And it certainly was interesting, including a real-world, anthropologically base......more

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