Trickster's Point (Cork O'Connor, Bk 12)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
I won this book in a contest on bookreporter.com and want to thank them for holding these contests.
To be fair to everyone, I have to mention that the two best books Ive read in the past year are Cutting For Stone and The Orphan Masters Son. Also. I started Tricksters Point the day I finished reading The Orphan Masters Son, so I did not find it full of the nail biting suspense mentioned on the jacket flap. Furthermore, even though I do watch some mysteries on TV, I dont usually read them, although I did read Defending Jacob and really enjoyed it.
The entire time I read Tricksters Point I kept seeing Sheriff Longmire from the TV show of the same name and wondered if Longmire was based on the Cork OConnor novels. Both single, middle aged men with grown daughters, present or past sheriffs, small towns on the edge of Indian Reservations, their friendship with one special Indian, animosity between some of the whites and Indians, etc. Just an awful lot of coincidences.
The writing in general is competent but nothing to make me re-read a paragraph because the wording grabbed me. Of course I realize this IS a mystery and they are usually read just for the story. Two things were unnecessarily mentioned twice - the mint green of her eyes and the negative effect mining might have on the lakes. As for general editing, cutting the book back to 300 pages would have helped make it a little more taut. We dont need to know that it was an American Express Gold card used for a purchase instead of a Visa card from some local bank. It is things like this that make me start scanning pages in a book.
One hundred pages before the ending I knew who had committed the two murders. I won't say why here because I don't want to spoil it for the reader.
Although this is a murder mystery, it is not full of gore or drunken ready-to-retire detectives and there are families in it, so I think it would appeal to women as well as men.
To be fair to everyone, I have to mention that the two best books Ive read in the past year are Cutting For Stone and The Orphan Masters Son. Also. I started Tricksters Point the day I finished reading The Orphan Masters Son, so I did not find it full of the nail biting suspense mentioned on the jacket flap. Furthermore, even though I do watch some mysteries on TV, I dont usually read them, although I did read Defending Jacob and really enjoyed it.
The entire time I read Tricksters Point I kept seeing Sheriff Longmire from the TV show of the same name and wondered if Longmire was based on the Cork OConnor novels. Both single, middle aged men with grown daughters, present or past sheriffs, small towns on the edge of Indian Reservations, their friendship with one special Indian, animosity between some of the whites and Indians, etc. Just an awful lot of coincidences.
The writing in general is competent but nothing to make me re-read a paragraph because the wording grabbed me. Of course I realize this IS a mystery and they are usually read just for the story. Two things were unnecessarily mentioned twice - the mint green of her eyes and the negative effect mining might have on the lakes. As for general editing, cutting the book back to 300 pages would have helped make it a little more taut. We dont need to know that it was an American Express Gold card used for a purchase instead of a Visa card from some local bank. It is things like this that make me start scanning pages in a book.
One hundred pages before the ending I knew who had committed the two murders. I won't say why here because I don't want to spoil it for the reader.
Although this is a murder mystery, it is not full of gore or drunken ready-to-retire detectives and there are families in it, so I think it would appeal to women as well as men.
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