
The Widower’s Two-Step
A Tres Navarre Mystery, Book 2
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Tom Stechschulte
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Rick Riordan
About this listen
Rick Riordan’s first book in the Tres Navarre series, Big Red Tequila hit the mystery market like a Texas tornado. Readers couldn’t get enough of its hero’s offbeat combination of academic degrees, tai chi skills, and nose for danger. When the second adventure, Widower’s TwoStep, was published, it quickly earned an Edgar Award. Instead of accepting a teaching position at the university, Tres is finishing up his apprenticeship for a private investigator’s license. He’s doing a poor job of surveillance on the fiddle player in a promising honkytonk band: she is shot in broad daylight while he watches. Shaken, Tres begins an investigation on his own. It’s not long before he discovers that some people will do anything to capture a lucrative recording contract. With suspense as sizzling as the southwestern sun, and a truly colorful cast of characters, The Widower’s TwoStep is a hit with mystery lovers well beyond the Lone Star State. Narrator Tom Stechschulte’s performance adds just the right spice to Tres’ character.
Crack another case with Tres Navarre.©1998 Rick Riordan (P)2002 Recorded Books, LLCListeners also enjoyed...
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- J.C.D.
- 03-14-17
AN INTERESTING TEXAS MYSTERY
If you could sum up The Widower’s Two-Step in three words, what would they be?
MUSIC, MONEY, DEATH
Who was your favorite character and why?
Tres Navarre. He's intelligent, educated and prone to violence.
What does Tom Stechschulte bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
He does a great job of bringing the characters and story to life.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. It was too long.
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- Lorraine L. Miller
- 05-05-16
Lots of fun for native San Antonians!!!
I've walked a lot of miles listening to stories of Tres Navarre. The stories are good, but the details of my beloved home town (I've been gone for 40 years) make me feel like I'm wearing an old favorite sweater. Thank you Rick Riordan!
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- Bond James Bond
- 12-25-15
better than average
It's a decent story, well read, but I kept wondering how some of the recurrent characters fit in, a sign to me that it didn't hold my interest. The story is a good idea, I like the writer's style and dialogue. Maybe I'll try another in the series, especially if it goes on the daily special sale.
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- David
- 08-20-12
Great story, great narrator
What made the experience of listening to The Widower’s Two-Step the most enjoyable?
Really enjoy the performance, and the color of San Antonio.
What does Tom Stechschulte bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The voices and accents are great.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Murder in Texas at the home of the Alamo
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- Richard Delman
- 05-06-12
Middling, meandering, dated.
I remember reading Mr. Riordan's books when they came out in print and being mildly amused. Tres Navarre is a likable character, a literate PI from Texas. However, now the genre seems to have passed by Mr. Riordan. With Tim Hallinan, Thomas Perry, Lou Berney and the like, we can read the work of much better writers. Mr. Riordan has a sense of humor, and Chapter 1 sets us up to think that this book will be much more interesting than it is. For one thing, Mr. Riordan has never met a word that he didn't like. The books are about twice as long as they should be, which I guess is done to make them the standard 300+ page novel. Someone once asked Elmore Leonard why his books were so popular. He said, "I leave out the parts that people skip." Mr. Riordan leaves out nothing. In this book we hear WAY too much exposition, way too much about the Southern country music scene and all the miserable crooks behind the scenes. There are too many characters that we don't care a thing about. For instance, Tres's sometime supervisor, Irenya. She adds nothing to the book other than her kid, Jem. Also, Mr. Stechshulte is an average narrator, and his voicing of this particular woman is grating and unpleasant. A good editor would have cut her. Better to listen to eight hours of Elmore Leonard than twelve hours of Rick Riordan. This series is only for Texan fans of the genre. The rest of us really don't care how many rest stops there are between Austin and San Antonio.
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- Lisa Humes
- 01-13-15
San Amtonio detective
Riordan is a South Texas treasure. Before he made it big with Percy Jackson, he gave us private dick Tres Navarre and a world well known to the many societies that make Austin/San Antonio our home.
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-13-17
Good story with keep you on your toes plot twists.
Keeps you guessing. Lots of well developed players - a bit hard to keep up with all of them, but not terrible....
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- Robert G.
- 04-09-13
Fav Tres Navarre Story so far!
I've so far listened to the 5 of the books, and am in the middle of the 6th book. I must say that this was my favorite out of the bunch. Great story, with great tension. Shows how different City and Country life in Texas can be.
Again with all of the books, being a Texan sometimes the immersion in the story is broken with all the mispronunciations. Like someone said on a review of a previous Tres Navarre book, you would think it wouldn't come up too often... but it does more often than you think. Like Gruene Hall is pronounced "Green," and there are other mispronunciations of other cities.
However even with this, it is a great story with a great narrator that really brings the characters alive.
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- Mairyann
- 09-04-12
Fun Frolicking Listen
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Not on the edge but definetly wanted to know what the heck was going to happen next!
Which character – as performed by Tom Stechschulte – was your favorite?
They were all good. Male and female which can be hard to do!
Any additional comments?
I love all the bizarre characters and how they all fit together. The tai-chi master twist is fun too.
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- Clifford K.
- 12-20-21
another good book in the series
the author weaves a good plot with lots of interesting characters many are reoccurring and you have to really enjoy the wit and repartee he has with all the characters and wonder about his gifts as a writer to have these kinds of conversations. it's a rare gift and I think anyone will enjoy it especially the audio version really brings it to life as you can listen to the other voices. the narrator does a good job
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