Review: Great Western Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2013
Hunt the Killers Down by Van Holt is another great story in a long list of westerns that the author has written. It is approximately 172 pages and I finished it in 3 sittings. The first chapter started off a bit slow for me then the author jumped five years ahead, so the very beginning was just the set-up. The dialogue is spot on for the time period, just after the civil war ended. The writing is tight and fast-paced, even the descriptions are easy to envision for the time period.The story starts off with a dilemma as one of the characters, Jeff Braden, a southerner, who had fought on the side of the north, went home after the war in 1865 and found the four members of his family murdered. The story takes several twists and turns as he tries to solve the mystery of who killed his family.