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Double Prey
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Steven Havill
rogerb
, April 06, 2011
Double Prey is yet another well constructed police procedural in the Posadas County Mysteries series by Steven F. Havill. As always in this series the story is centered around Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman and former sheriff and current livestock inspector Bill Gastner. This entry opens with a fourteen year old boy taking on a five foot diamondback rattlesnake with a weedwhacker. Both lose, the rattlesnake its head and the boy an eye. When the boy is transported to Albuquerque for life saving medical care, the family cannot locate his older brother. The missing persons case turns into a murder case, with another five year old homicide and a jaguar mixed in. This series is characterized by what it lacks. There are no sexually psychopathic supervillains and no near superhuman heroes. Yet Reyes-Guzman and Gastner are two of the most magnetic characters in crime fiction today. All of Havill’s supporting characters are well-drawn and realistic, the kind of people you deal with on a daily basis, yet somehow more interesting. The series is well deserving of best seller status. Havill deserves to be in the conversation with writers like John Sandford and Lee Child, though his style is very different. Perhaps if Henning Mankell and Inaldur Indridason were to set their procedurals in a sunny climate and lift the Scandinavian gloom, they might look something like this. I eagerly await each installment in this series.
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West of Here
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Jonathan Evison
rogerb
, March 28, 2011
This is possibly the best novel to come out of the Northwest since Sometimes a Great Notion. Evison obviously did a great deal of historical research, and large parts of the novel are set in the 1890s, but somehow, this does not read like a historical novel. It has a very contemporary feel to it. The novel follows the original inhabitants of the lower Elwha, the Siwash and Jamestown Klallam, and the founders of the fictional town of Port Bonita in the 1890s in the first part of the book. The book then begins shifting view points between the 1890s and 2006, tying the lives of the founding generation to their descendants in the modern era. The story centers first around the construction of the lower dam on the Elwha in the 1890s, and in the contemporary sections, on its imminent destruction. The dam was constructed without any fish passage capability and caused the extinction of the greatest runs of salmon and steelhead on the Olympic peninsula. This novel's rendering of the Olympic Peninsula is evocative for those familiar with the area. However, the significance of the dam' construction and destruction may be lost on those who haven't experienced the salmon and logging conflicts of the contemporary Pacific Northwest.
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