Review: Suspend belief for a great read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2012
From my books review website, [...]The author, Drew Lindsay, creates and tackles a large body of work, with a many-armed, quite detailed plot.  At times, the protagonist, Ben Wood, feels larger than life and I half-expected him to start flying into the air while re-routing hurricanes and  seeing bullets bounce off his body, all the while making love with every available female within a one hundred mile radius.That said, the secondary characters are more down-to-earth and much more believable, with foibles and faults.  There is young Binda, the aboriginal-descent detective with Maruce, the hard-bitten detective with a soft spot, the down-to-earth coroner/doctor, Ruth, who tends to everyone's body and soul, and Merinda, the also aboriginal-descent rags-to-riches maven, whose husband disappeared in a plane somewhere. Now her business partner, was her  husbands business parter...see where this is going?Now add in a much-revered, spooky, religious Mountain in Austrailia and superstitions with bodies piling up. The story kept my attention, it didn't deviate much from the mail storyline and wrapped up nicely.Overall, I would suggest Black Mountain Affair for a good weekend read.