Not quite half thru. We got some ranch with 2 generations of family on it, land changing hands to become a donation and upset inheritors ipso facto- people die. I really could do without the life history of a desk and table. What's up with that?
Don't mind the story too much but we have this supposedly bright girl with a dummy for a husband named Browning. She's skinning pigs for a living (gross much?) used to be a city girl. But now is a country person so adept outside when the crickets stop being noisy that she's suspicious....unless....her very own presence shut them TFU ya think? Lots of sappy history background. Claire is a main character, a daughter in law...guess she thinks she owns the place and is going to find the killer. I'm on page 100 and not being a country-daughter-in-law-bright-asshole I still know her husband has something to do with his fathers death. No duh. Or maybe it's the scum he hangs out with on his safari-behind-a -fence. Just curious if she's so fucking bright why she's still there since they haven't exactly been getting along. Now. After people die and she's suddenly so stupid. Her brother in law Frisco thinks she's a flipping genius tho...wonder how dumb he is. Other names are Rusty (female), Moses and Jonah and guess which has a whale fixation. LOL
Sometimes when men write a book and have women as lead characters the women are strange. Skinning animals? Really? Not raised on a farm or slaughter house. But doesn't blink at having a safari for rich men to kill endangered/imported animals all day long. I mean she's gotta be a strong transexual transvestite or something from a down home kinda farm life to carve the skin off and rip the head from the spine with her bare hands. She's sort of disgusting. Did I miss something?
The story is readable but you have to get your head around gross and bizarre.
Edgar award winning author!!
And 6 yrs into the marriage she is just now cringing at things her husband says or does. Slow learner?
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