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Qualifying Laps: A Brewster County Novel

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Now I have to say that I did not luuuuuurv this book as much I loved Nash Black's Sandprints of Death but what I did love was the opportunity this book gives to follow the same characters I met in that novel and spend some time with all of the Young family on their home turf. Similarly to Sandprints of Death this book gives a very atmospheric depiction of place and an intricately woven quilt of family history set within a rural community that is at once exotic (especially to an Australian) in things like its use of language and community mores but is also very familiar to anyone who has spent any time in remote communities. I'll be reading anything else Nash Black has written just because I want to get back there and hang out with these characters some more.

If you like a good mystery with a little humor and can't wait to see how the book ends, you will enjoy reading this book.

Qualifying Laps is a good little mystery. A family of nine boys and their mother get involved in trying to solve the mystery of the skeleton found sitting in the Corvette in a Brewster County barn. The book is exciting and even funny in places. Being from Kentucky, I really enjoyed the references to real names and places. This is a good start. We want more!