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Title: Red Moon: A Howard Moon Deer Mystery (Howard Moon Deer Mysteries) by Robert Westbrook ISBN: 0-451-20035-7 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Red Moon is Full
Comment: Robert Westbrook is the kind of writer you wish you could take on your next road trip: an insightful and witty storyteller with both a compassionate heart and a sharp eye for pretense and absurdity. Certainly he is the perfect guide through the Taos-y town in northern New Mexico which is the setting for his Howard Moon Deer series, where rich and poor, old and new, liberal and conservative, clash with the sudden violence of the weather systems the area is so famous for. In this latest book the art world is the scene of the crime, and like the previous two in the series, Red Moon is successful as a novel with plenty of satire, interpersonal drama, and vivid characters to care about, that just happens to have a mystery driving its narrative engine. It's a sophisticated read, more jazz than the honky-tonk or blues expected from the genre, with a satisfyingly twisty plot, silky writing, and note-perfect dialogue; but in the end, it's the characters you will remember. Westbrook is refreshingly respectful of the women he creates; and does a nice job making even the secondary characters unique and memorable (my favorite character, Howie's great-uncle Two Arrows, appears in just a few paragraphs of each book, but will blind-side you with his sweet wisdom; and The Rainbow Man, the homeless visitor who becomes the first murder victim, is an intriguing mix: dangerous and deranged, yet part visionary angel as well.) Jack is realistic and sympathetic as an ex-detective struggling with the limitations of his blindness, but as usual it is Howie who steals the show. In fact, the most puzzling mystery in the series is how any sane woman would let a guy like Howie out of her sleeping bag for an instant, let alone the rest of her life, as poor Howie's love interests always seem to do. So while I'm looking forward to the fourth book, due out soon, because I'm sure it will be another great read, I'm really going to be buying it to see if Howie can finally find a woman who will stick around!
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent series with two interesting sleuths
Comment: I suppose it is time for a sub-genre of blind detectives to be developed. Howard is the employee of a blind retired police officer, Jack Wilder, who couldn't stand being retired. He provides the thought and Howard does the legwork to research the cases, often with unforeseen consequences. Howard is a Native American who received an education off the reservation. Now he is sophisticated, knowledgeable, and doesn't always fit in with his fellow tribesmen. In addition, he is living in New Mexico, and is equally as much an alien as Jack when it comes to the reservation and its residents.
Jack, though a resident of permanent darkness, is a gourmet cook and is even experimenting with learning to shoot without sight for aiming. Every so often he must extricate Howard from a bad situation. Howard gets knocked unconscious on a regular basis, and should be suffering far more damage from those blows...or at least reconsidering his career move.
Rating: 1
Summary: Red Moon
Comment: I was greatly disappointed with this book. The main character is not a Ella Clah (Aimee and Davis Thurlo), Charlie Moon (James D. Doss), nor a Jim Chee or Joe Leaphorn (Tony Hillerman) but instead the book is about a blind ex-cop from California and his college-educated indian assistant from Minnasota working in New Mexico. It reads more like a typical 1940's detective novel. Your money would be better spend on a Thurlo, Doss, or Hillerman book. I had the same feelings when I read Westbrook's companion book "Ancient Enemy".
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Title: Ancient Enemy (Howard Moon Deer Mysteries) by Robert Westbrook ISBN: 0451204816 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 05 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Spirit Sickness by KIRK MITCHELL ISBN: 0553579177 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Ancient Ones by KIRK MITCHELL ISBN: 0553579207 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Cry Dance by Kirk Mitchell ISBN: 0553579142 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Warrior Circle: A Howard Moon Deer Mystery (Howard Moon Deer Mystery Series) by Robert Westbrook ISBN: 0451198174 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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