Customer Reviews

Cry Dance (Random House Large Print)

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4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(1)
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I live near the place where this novel was set, and I loved the author's descriptions of the people and scenery. But I was able to put this down. That's not good--I'm one of those people who will read all night if it's good (and I read 10-12 books/week). But I will buy the next book in the series...I did like it just fine.

Go for it! (and Mr. Mitchell, please put in more about the Comanches! I've always loved Quanah Parker)

Well worth a read...

A real page turner. Mitchell really tells a great story. Lots of plot twists and surprises. I couldn't put the book down. It was especially fun seeing how Emmett Parker and Anna Turnipseed finally manage to work together despite their conflicting personalities. Mitchell makes these two characters so real, I feel I've known them for years and can't wait to see what happens to them next. Great read for Tony Hillerman, Robert B. Parker, Clive Cussler fans.

Aside from being an easy-reading, enjoyable murder mystery (the ending of which is not easily guessed), Kirk Mitchell provides the reader with information concerning Native American tribes and their customs. Recommended reading.

Cry Dance was outstanding. I could not read the pages fast enough. The plot of the story was well developed and easy to follow. This was not a predictable story. It kept me guessing the whole time. Mitchell has a quite an imagination, and I hope to read more exciting and suspenseful books from this author in the future. May Parker and Turnipseed live on! RM

I enjoyed this book alot. The main characters weve well developed. The intensity of the story reached a high level early and maintained its self to the end. The plot was well thought out and seemed very believeable.Especially enjoyed the southwest setting as described by the author. Rather than a mystery I feel this is an excellent adventure story that grabs you from begining to end!

Having lived in Arizona most of my life and hiked down Havasupai, rafted the Colorado, backpacked off Toroweap and Rim to Rim, I loved the setting for this book. Helped me relive all those beautiful places. Additionally, I learned what is happening on our reservations, with dismay, I might add. Both gaming and the Rastafarian influence on Indian youth is such a change in way of life and values. Mitchell portrays the complex issues very well and continues to give his Indian protagonists dignity while struggling with their human frailties. I hope more people read Mitchell's books to gain information on places not usually visited by "tourists" and to learn to respect a way of life not tied into the crass consumerism of modern America.

Emmett Q. Parker, a criminal investigator for the BIA, is descended from Quanah, and Anna Turnipseed of the FBI is the great-great-granddaughter of Captain Jack of the Modoc, and even though the former is a very tough old veteran and the latter is still a rookie, you don't want to mess with either of them. Mitchell, who is well experienced at plotting blood-freezing action plots, does it again in this story of southwestern Indian casinos and Jamaican posses and psychotic killers, but he also does an excellent job of putting you inside the head of the lead characters (including the bad guys), letting you find out why they are who they are, how they relate to each other, and how they deal with being Indians in a mostly white world. And some of it is pretty horrific. But this isn't Tony Hillerman and there's not much romanticism in modern Indian life. An excellent piece of writing.

Native American history, good mystery, action and a little romance. What more can you ask for! I'm a Hillerman fan and it's so nice to find another author and series of the same caliber.

There's a lot of suspense and it's a good plot. However, there is NO chemistry between Turnipseed and Parker. It's annoying in a movie when the actors obviously don't have chemistry, but how can the author achieve no chemistry when the author is the one creating the relationship? I found the relationship to be weak, unconvincing, and a distraction and it undercuts a lot of the motivation in the story. Mitchell could take a lesson from Margaret Coel who knows how to create chemistry. Also, to address the comparisons to Hillerman, I would say that Hillerman's plots are some of the most ingenious I have ever read - especially when, in several of them, justice is served to the satisfaction of the white and red worlds but the justice was very different in each world and the white characters actually have no clue as to what really went on and would not be satisfied if they did. I am an avid reader of mystery books, especially ones that involve Native Americans in some way, and, after reading Cry Dance, I will probably not be reading a lot more of Mitchell.

You know how some books make great movies? And others are better in a book, or too complex and the movie ends up re-writing the whole story? Well, I believe that this book would make an incredibly great murder-mystery, action-packed, romance, hero/herione flick. The book seems to go from being somewhat slow in getting started to 'where did he come from?'. Unpredictable, and definantly worth reading. I hope to read more of this authors material. And I wonder if there are any others, starring Parker, previous to this story. If not, there should be. A past history on this character could really be built onto.(And as an after-thought, I don't think that the killer had dreadlocks.)