Review: Good old fashioned fun
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 6, 2013
Six Gun Serenade by Van Holt is another home run!I grew up on westerns; John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Clint Eastwood, even Gene Autry and Gary Cooper.  They all had one thing in common..characters who had depth.  Good guys who had their demons to fight, and a strong moral code that they would never break, riding through breath taking landscapes.These are the westerns that Van Holt writes.  In Six Gun Serenade, ex-soldier Jed Baker has been trying to leave the memories of his service in the civil war behind him as he travels alone through the countryside of New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona.  But, it seems that no matter how hard one might try, some memories cannot be outrun.Jed meets up with an old compatriot, Bill Hicken, who has since become a gunslinger, in a saloon.  They talk for a few minutes, then part ways.  This one chance meeting leads Jed into a mystery, that he must either solve...or chance being hung as a murderer himself.Mr. Holt has the rare ability of being able to develop both character and ambiance in his work, and I find myself loving the country in which the story takes place, as much as the people that live, work, love and die there.