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The Taking Of Libbie, SD (2010)

by David Housewright(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0312559968 (ISBN13: 9780312559960)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Mac McKenzie

review 1: Housewright, being from Minnesota, knows a thing or two about South Dakota. He creates a believable fictitious SD town in the form of Libbie, populates it with believable types, and puts Rushmore McKenzie into more than one life-threatening sotuation. McKenzie is one of those wise-cracking private investigator/ex-cop types, but he grows on you throughout the seven novels in which he appears. Housewright also makes some astute observations about the future of the small towns on the Great Plains, ones rooted in a sad reality.
review 2: I love David Housewright, and I'm unable to put any of his books down (give it a try yourself). In this one main character Mac MacKenzie is kidnapped in the first chapter and dragged to Libbie, S.D., where someone else using his n... moreame has tried to defraud the town. Despite his anger at being kidnapped (and who can blame him) white knight Mac still decides to help the town fathers of Libbie what happened to his namesake, who he calls the "Imposter". As usual all the sidebar characters are as vividly drawn as the first one. Finding all of Housewright's books may be diffisult, but well worth the effort. This one bears a passing resemblance to Hammett's RED HARVEST, though the body count isn't as high. less

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