Just as the summer in Loon Lake is heating up, the town gets turned upside down by the bizarre triple homicide discovered on a backcountry road.
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This review is from: Dead Boogie: A Loon Lake Fishing Mystery (Loon Lake Fishing Mysteries) (Paperback)
A short cut home on an abandoned road led to a big surprise for a Forest Service employee when he found a wrecked car in the road with three dead women inside. Doc Osborne got a call from Chief Law Farris to help her out by finding Ray Pratt, his neighbor local fishing guide, and get to the scene of the accident. Lew needed Doc to help identify the victims and have Ray begin taking pictures of the scene.
Much to Doc's surprise when he arrived at the scene he recognized Peg Gamin, a local resident, with a rather shady reputation as one of the victims. He also realized the deaths were from gun shot wounds and not caused by the wreck. Peg had been Ray's friend for years and he was shattered at the news and determined to find the killer. It is soon discovered that Peg not only was an heiress but also had a son. The three women were connected with their once a week Karaoke outings as well as the fact that they had all been patients of a plastic surgeon. Peg was in the process of filing suit against the surgeon malpractice. This is the seventh in the Loon Lake series and Victoria Houston brings back many of the characters from previous books as well as a couple of new ones. Even if you don't like to fish you might wish you did after reading a Loon Lake mystery.
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If you've read any of Victoria Houston's previous mysteries in the Loon Lake series, you know what to expect, but if you're a first-time reader of Ms. Houston's novels, you are going to be pleased. I heard Ms. Houston on an NPR show and liked her immediately--her Midwestern sensibility, her sense of humor, the way she talked about writing. So I purchased this book, and I found it a terrific, engaging, and completely enjoyable reading experience.
The characters are likeable, slightly quirky, and believable. The story features a triple murder, and couple of other grisly deaths along the way, but the author loves her main characters so much, and writes so wonderfully about the locale, that the reader is almost more interested in the interactions of the cast of mostly amateur crime fighters who move from clue to clue to solve the crime. The book is well-paced and contains humor and local color--and some nicely written descriptions of fishing experiences--and the mystery unravels page by page. Ms. Houston is a skillful writer. This book is a keeper. And I recommend it to anyone who likes the Midwest, the outdoors, character-driven fiction, and a good story.
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Northwoods life-dear to my heart,
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This review is from: Dead Boogie: A Loon Lake Fishing Mystery (Loon Lake Fishing Mysteries) (Paperback)
The mystery created by Victoria Houston, in this instance in "Dead Boogie", is set in some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. Contrast that with the "looney" characters in the story and we get a taste of life in the woods of the Upper Great Lakes. I live in the north woods and my friends and I feel we have met everyone of these characters. Victoria is the only author able to capture the essence of this area in her books, and with a good mystery to boot. I am afraid that I am another woman who is attracted to Ray Pratt and was glad to see the many sides of him in "Dead Boogie".
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Loon Lake, Chief Ferris, Peg Garmin, Country Fest, Mary Lee, Joan Nehlson, Mary Margaret, Thunder Bay, Harold Westbrook, Gina Palmer, Paul Osborne, Shania Twain, Wausau Crime Lab, Bob Miller, Forest Service, George Buchholz, Lake Alice, Sister Rita, Boulder Junction, Deer Haven, Lew Ferris, Little Pickerel, Robbie Mikkleson, Wolf Lake, Loon River New!
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