Award-winning author and playright, Karen Mueller Bryson states, "Bobby and Kam Ruble tell a wonderful story, full of interesting and well-developed characters, while skillfully capturing the essence of life in rural Nebraska ... It is a thoroughly enjoyable read."
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Black Rosebud Have No Mercy II : Psychological Thriller,
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This review is from: Black Rosebud: Have No Mercy II (Paperback)
Racial prejudice is a part of the human psyche that produces senseless acts. It is a festering sore in a society that may never heal. All kinds of intolerance can be justified by this cruelest of human acts.Since humans first appeared on planet earth, they have been wary of those who are different from them. It does not seem to matter that we all are the same at heart. That is, a person wanting to live in peace and harmony with the world. Their will always be, it seems, those members of a society not prepared to allow those different from themselves to exist. In those members minds they are superior to those that they persecute. Therefore what they do to them is entirely justified and of no consequence to the law of the land. This type of thinking is also aimed at those who are different not because of their race, but because they have a physical or mental problem. Unscrupulous people see them as easy targets, ready made to fit in with their own selfish purpose. These callous beings serve no other purpose in life other than bringing untold misery to their victims. Darin Righter was one of those people who felt superior to those around him. He felt that Kidwell, Nebraska was below his station in life. Living on a farm in a rural community did not meet his vision of how he wanted to spend his life. His ideal life style would be being surrounded by luxury and have others to do his bidding. To be able to achieve this ideal existence he would need to get his hands on a large amount of money. The opportunity to do just this came along at the First People's Bank of Sharpin. He got a job as an accountant with the bank and rose to the position of Mr Dodd's assistant. This was to be the first step on his path to misery. On this journey he would destroy people's lives. Farm Girl, a young teenager not wise in the ways of the world, would be his most innocent victim. Born into poverty and raised by a mother who wished her identity to be kept unknown. She stood little chance of seeing through Darin's devious schemes. His elder brother Frank doted on him, yet Darin despised him. Then there was old Jefferson Welk whose skin color held him down all of his life. Both of these men were to feel the venom of the evil that flowed in Darin's blood. Bobby and Kam Ruble have shown with this novel that they are on top of their craft. The story is a rich texture of wonderful characters that move the reader to feel their emotions. Throughout the tale there are no flat spots to detract from the intrigue of the various twists in the plot. This is the best book of it type that I have read this year. Once started, the reader will not be able to put this book down. It is a book that I would highly recommend all lovers of good fiction to read. Review by Warren Thurston - Boggle Books
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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powerful crime tale,
This review is from: Black Rosebud: Have No Mercy II (Paperback)
Darin Righter knows that farm life is for those inferior to him. He plans to escape Kidwell, Nebraska and all these losers to attain a luxurious lifestyle envied by the rich and famous. Darin may have illusions of grandeur, but he understands that to achieve his objective he needs funding, which in his mind equates to stomping on people including family to gain easy money.He begins his quest by accepting an accounting job with the First People's Bank of Sharpin that gives him insider information. Farm Girl becomes a victim followed by Darin's older brother and finally elderly Jefferson Welk. Burglaries and murder occur, but is Darin a Lady Macbeth type willing to break the law to achieve his ambition? Though the rural law chief Simmons will do his best to solve the "Neat Nick" crimes, he is a product of his society in which the color of one's skin led to a hate crime that though two generations removed still lingers in the collective memory of everyone. BLACK ROSEBUD is a powerful crime tale that provides readers with a slice of rural Midwest. Though exciting, the shrewdly designed investigation plays a support role to the relationships between residents of the county; the audience will feel like a Cornhusker tasting the dust of Nebraska's farming community. Readers will welcome this suspenseful story that uses individual and community de facto prejudice to add depth to the tale. Those who prefer a sleek crime thriller will probably be better suited elsewhere; anyone who takes delight in a minuscule look at people in a community where crimes have happened will appreciate this book and seek its predecessor, HAVE NO MERCY. Harriet Klausner
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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...for anyone who enjoys a good mystery!,
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This review is from: Black Rosebud: Have No Mercy II (Paperback)
Black Rosebud: Have No Mercy IIBobby and Kam Ruble ISBN: 0972851313 561 pp. In the farm country of Nebraska we meet Farm Girl, a young naïve mind kept from the wickedness of the world by a mother, Mama, who for her own reasons runs from a past filled with pain. They, in their search for enough to sustain their meager existence, meet a kindly older gentleman, Jefferson Welk, who although mostly distrustful of strangers, decides out of loneliness to take them in for the season. Both Farm Girl and her mother settle in quite well on the Welk farm, dutifully performing their tasks as they build a friendship with Jefferson. And although the man doesn't wish to press his concerns as to not break the tentative bonds that grow, he does convince Mama that education of Farm Girl is necessary. So armed with a limited amount of allowed material, Farm Girl begins to learn of the world that exists beyond the wire fences. Enter Frank Righter, an ex-marine, who after this parents death assumes the responsibility to raise his younger brother, Darin, the town prankster with a love of both money and alcohol. Fresh from college, Darin has no wish to remain on the farm that his family built and with a perfect opportunity laid before him in the Want Ads of the local paper, he knows this could be the very chance he's been waiting for in order to get out. All looks peaceful in Cole County until the phone rings in the local police station and Chief Rusty Simmons, a longtime friend of Frank, becomes drawn into a cat and mouse game with a criminal reported in the papers as the "Neat Nick Thief". With a plot that twists as unpredictably as the wild rose grows, Black Rosebud will entice readers with intricate characters whose veiled motivations can't be revealed until the very end. Surprising and entertaining, with both laugh-out-loud wit and emotionally gripping scenes, Black Rosebud is for anyone who enjoys a good mystery!
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