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18mm Blues

By: Gerald A. Browne
Narrated by: James Conlan
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A gem dealer caught up in a decades-old murder mystery searches for the world's most precious and mysterious pearls in New York Times-best-selling author Gerald A. Browne's exotic, riveting thriller.

When Grady Bowman and his new girlfriend, Julia Elkins, travel from San Francisco to the Far East to get Grady back into the gem business, a jeweler in Bangkok tells them the extraordinary true story of two female Japanese pearl divers who discovered in the Andaman Sea an oyster bed filled with priceless, naturally blue pearls. The divers were murdered for what they found, and now the son of one of the divers wants revenge. As Grady and Julia hunt for the source of the priceless pearls, they are led to the estate and oyster farms of the world's wealthiest pearl dealer. Here Julia becomes increasingly obsessed with the divers' tragic deaths, and she and Grady will unravel an extraordinary mystery of one man's obsession and another man's crime, and the world's most breathtaking naturally blue pearls.

©1993 Pulse Productions, Inc., This edition published in 2014 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (P)2014 Audible Inc.
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Interesting premise spoiled by an insistence on demonstrating how sexually liberated all the characters were.
Regardless of this, they were just generally unlikeable.
The plot twist didn't really twist, it just sort of turned at one point and then became predictable.
I liked the pearls. Think that's the only reason I finished it.

Story bogged down by characters

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