Entries from Westport Public Library BOOK blog tagged with 'western'

Meanwhile, back at the reservation ...

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Denver author Margaret Coel returns to the Wind River Reservation of Wyoming in The Silent Spirit, a new mystery featuring John Aloysius O’Malley, a Jesuit missionary, and Vicky Holden, an Arapaho attorney. Father John and Vicky delve into the reservation's past when an Arapaho and his great-grandson are murdered nearly a century apart.

The Amlingmeyer brothers ride again!

red.gif Fans of Steve Hockensmith's Holmes on the Range, this is your lucky day! "Old Red" and "Big Red" are back in the "detectifying" business in On the Wrong Track, which is hot off the presses. I so thoroughly enjoyed the first book, finding it the freshest take on the Holmes mystique in years. If you want a real treat, try it on CD. Read by William Dufris, it is an absolute delight.

MURDER, WESTERN STYLE

boots.bmp While there are many excellent mystery series set in the contemporary American West, 2006 has bought four historical mysteries that give us superb glimpses of it’s fabled past.