A Loon Lake Mystery (5 books in series)
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review 1: Not as good as previous books in the series. I liked the main characters, and the northern Wisconsin setting, but there were way too many subplots going on. There were a couple murders, of course, but the author also touched on domestic abuse, a series of burglaries, financial sc...
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review 1: It's Thanksgiving, but that doesn't stop murder from coming to town. I like the characters in the book and the mystery is complicated enough to keep my interest. I do have two problems though. One is the shifting point of view at the beginning of the book makes it more difficu...
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review 1: Victoria Houston, since the beginning of her second novel in this series, has been known to play fast and loose with the laws of physics, re-invent the details of her main characters’ backstories and completely warp the time-space continuum. But she has always crafted a fine, rea...
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review 1: I had to start reading this book twice - it didn't quite catch me the first time. Although the dialogue moves along pretty smoothly, I can't quite fully attach to the characters. Love the local setting, though!It's late January at Loon Lake, with a International Ice Fishing Festi...
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review 1: Set in a small town in northern Wisconsin, this is the latest book in the Loon Lake mystery series. Retired dentist and avid fisherman "Doc" Osborne again provides forensic assistance to Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris after a grisly discovery during a flood. Without burdening the...