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The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
by Craig Johnson
Walt Longmire is the fictional sheriff of a Wyoming county that borders a reservation. When a young white man is killed, a man almost no one in the community thought well of, the death initially looks like a suicide. But Longmire’s snappy eastern-born deputy notices things that make suicide seem less likely. Is this a revenge killing for something the young man did? There are lots of reasons people in the county would want the guy dead.
Melissa Little Bird suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, which means she's somewhat developmentally delayed. That didn't stop the small cadre of white boys from raping and torturing the young native American. The boys essentially got a slap on the wrist, but someone is taking revenge on them, seeking to bring the justice to Melissa that she didn't get in the courts.
Surely the killer isn’t Walt’s long-time friend Henry Standing Bear? What about Melissa’s dad, a double amputee and recovering alcoholic?
This book held my interest, but I was mostly turned off by the supernatural stuff that played a part in the capture of the killer. I realize extreme cold can do things to you, but I’m not convinced it allows you to hear ancient native songs chanted and sung at you like jingling bells. I realize lots of people love this supernatural component stuff; and while I don’t want to flippantly discount it entirely, I’m less inclined to enjoy a book where it exists. That said, Johnson is an excellent writer; his characters are nicely developed here, and I’ll come back to his fictional sheriff in the not-too-distant future and give the second book in the series a try.
Melissa Little Bird suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, which means she's somewhat developmentally delayed. That didn't stop the small cadre of white boys from raping and torturing the young native American. The boys essentially got a slap on the wrist, but someone is taking revenge on them, seeking to bring the justice to Melissa that she didn't get in the courts.
Surely the killer isn’t Walt’s long-time friend Henry Standing Bear? What about Melissa’s dad, a double amputee and recovering alcoholic?
This book held my interest, but I was mostly turned off by the supernatural stuff that played a part in the capture of the killer. I realize extreme cold can do things to you, but I’m not convinced it allows you to hear ancient native songs chanted and sung at you like jingling bells. I realize lots of people love this supernatural component stuff; and while I don’t want to flippantly discount it entirely, I’m less inclined to enjoy a book where it exists. That said, Johnson is an excellent writer; his characters are nicely developed here, and I’ll come back to his fictional sheriff in the not-too-distant future and give the second book in the series a try.