Review: Congenial setting and characters, not much mystery
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2013
"The character were likeable, well developed, story line was good and the author has excellent language skills." So wrote earlier reviewer, Kimberly Andrew. With one important exception, I agree. The plot was strong on character but weak on developing an interesting mystery. My own view is that this is a nice "down home" story, such as often appeared in the old Colliers or Saturday Evening Post (perhaps, if the author was fortunate, with a cover or inner text illustration by Norman Rockwell), but not something that would have fit (ignoring size in all three cases) the Ellery Queen Magazine when Ellery Queen (the cousins from Brooklyn) was editing it.  So  if you want to visit a small town in which two tall young fellows have gone missing at the same time, this will be a decent read; if what you want is a well written detective or mystery story, I would give it a pass.