Archive for the ‘US Frontier West’ Category

A COUNTRY CALLED HOME by Kim Barnes

When Helen and Thomas Deracotte—the protagonists of the novel A COUNTRY CALLED HOME—first meet, each is desperately trying to break clean from a trying past. Thomas, the son of an alcoholic single father, is brought up by an illiterate grandmother and through hard work, makes it to medical school. When his grandmother passes away just as Thomas graduates from medical school, he can find nothing to anchor him to home. On the contrary, Thomas wants, both literally and figuratively, to put as much distance between him and the life he has known, as possible.

December 22, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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VORACIOUS by Alice Henderson

lice Henderson’s VORACIOUS gets the adrenalin pumping from the first page and doesn’t let up. Her protagonist, Madeline Keye, has a special gift that feels more like a curse to her most of the time. When she touches objects that others have touched, she sees flashes of images of what they are thinking, what they did in the past and sometimes what they are planning to do in the near future. Once her ability helped to catch a serial killer, but failed to save her best friend that was with her.

October 9, 2009 · Judi Clark · One Comment
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TWISTED TREE by Kent Meyers

In this remarkable impressionistic novel, author Kent Meyers focuses not on plot development and not on character analysis (however well developed the characters may be), but on the rippling effects of the death of young Hayley Jo Zimmerman on her community (TWISTED TREE, South Dakota). Meyers does not dwell on Hayley Jo’s fate for its drama or its sadness but for its seeming inevitability, a main theme throughout the novel.

September 24, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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FIFTY GRAND by Adrian McKinty

Adrian McKinty’s latest thriller FIFTY GRAND begins in Wyoming on a frozen lake as a masked assailant forces a naked man at gunpoint to hammer a hole in the ice and then jump into the freezing water. Sobbing and begging for mercy, the man asks, “How did it come to this?” Then the novel goes back in time to answer that question.

August 18, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
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TRIPLE CROSS by Mark T. Sullivan

After almost six years, Mark T. Sullivan returns with another enjoyable suspense novel, TRIPLE CROSS — this time based in his current home state of Montana.

June 30, 2009 · Judi Clark · No Comments
Posted in: 2009 Favorites, Thriller/Spy/Caper, US Frontier West, Wild West