Review: Fine Take On Character
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2011
David Cranmer, aka Edward A. Grainger, has opened his characters to other authors. To good effect.We have a nice tale here with his black U.S. marshal, Gideon Miles, coming to the small town of Little Ridge to arrest a man wanted for armed robbery. In addition to the normal problems a black man receives routinely, no one can believe his man is a criminal. Raising a daughter alone, he farms and is generally considered an honest man. That's not Miles's problem. He doesn't judge, that's left for others to do.Unknown to Miles, another, The Swede, has spotted him coming into town, a man who wants revenge on Miles for killing his best friend when the marshal walks into a robbery a couple of years before. It matters not to The Swede that his friend was about to shoot the marshal. He wants to kill Gideon Miles.And he has help from an unlikely source.I liked Lowrance's writing style, a smooth flowing prose that grabbed me when I started and I read it in one burst.Recommended.