Ray Elkins Mystery (5 books in series)
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review 1: It's February along the shores of Northern Lake Michigan. A heavy blanket of snow has been building up in the woods since early November and the inland lakes have had a solid covering of ice since December. Shelf ice, stacked ten or fifteen feet in places, has been building on La...
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review 1: Cruelest Month is a mystery that tries to make its sheriff/detective a little more thoughtful and literary. I liked him and his more technical associate and wanted to like the northern Michigan setting. But the plot and town/locale and ancillary characters were cartoonishly drawn...
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review 1: It s late November along the shores of northern Lake Michigan. Deer season has been open for a few days and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. A local TV anchorwomen, in the process of separating from her husband, is returning home from an early morning yoga class with her y...
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review 1: I'm a Michigander and I'm always partial to books set in Michigan. Sheriff Elkins investigates the murder of a young private school teacher & friend. The book isn't very long. The investigation centers around the school. The politics, quirky teachers & students. Sheriff Elkins' s...
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review 1: I got this as a daily special on Kindle because it looked interesting and I know Michigan well. And I enjoyed it. The unnamed tiny town setting is somewhere reasonably close, but north of Traverse City. It's winter when these occurrences start and turns into much more than ant...