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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9781418464561
ISBN number: 1418464562
Label: AuthorHouse
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 188
Printing Date: January 04, 2005
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Former university president, Parker Williams, opens a fly shop in West Yellowstone, Montana. While providing fly-fishing guide services on the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park to a group of university presidents, he discovers the body of one of the presidents. An autopsy reveals the dead president was murdered. Considered a prime suspect, Parker sets out to clear his name and find the killer. Aided by a female Assistant Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and often one step ahead of the FBI agent in charge of the investigation and the local Sheriffs department officer assigned to the case, the murder seems to be a perfect crime until Parker is led to an unexpected and bizarre conclusion.
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Unlike another reviewer, I found this mystery dissappointing. Assuming the attraction to readers would be the flyfishing orientation and the allure of the Yellowstone area, I expected a more insightful approach from the fishing perspective. The fishing prose reads like a flyfishing 101 primer; very basic, with no intuitive hints on fly selection for the area, hatches, or, for instance, the uniqueness of fishing the Firehole and other Yellowstone Park rivers and the allure of the scenery, wildlife and geology on the experience. In addition, the author's dialogue doesn't resemble anything I'm familiar with after living in the West for 25 years. It's stilted, very formal, not at all colloqueal and just not the way people converse. The mystery aspect was ok, but lacked any tension and the solution was anti-climatic. Sorry to be so negative because I admire someone who takes a crack at a new pursuit after achieving sucess in another field. However, in this instance, the author's editors either let him down. Definitely not a group to have a beer with after a day on the river.
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This murder mystery is in the Hillerman vein, by that I mean the author knows a great deal about a geographical area and a specialty subject area and shares that with the reader while solving the mystery. Tony Hillerman does this with a focus on New Mexico and Native American beliefs, here Raymond Kieft has Yellowstone as the focus and Fly Fishing as the subject matter expertise. I suspect future stories will continue to explore why otherwise reasonable people give up perfectly good careers to spend their time Fly Fishing. As for the murder, it seems to be of a fungible college president (there are a lot running around in this book) but why? And Who? And How? --all classic mystery questions I won't reveal. I like mysteries that treat the reader as an intelligent person, not spoon feeding everything, and with an emphasis on current detective science, all of which Kieft has put in this Firehole River Murder. It is an easy read, with just enough false leads to make the mystery realistic.
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