Photographer Nellie Burns and her Labrador retriever, Moonshine, travel withsheep rancher Gwynn Campbell and his Basque sheepherder, Alphonso, to the Stanley Basin of central Idaho. Nellie plans to spend several weeks in the mountains around the basin at a sheep camp, photographing scenes for a railroad company's travel brochures. When their group arrives at the camp, they discover the current herder is dead. Basque sheriff Asteguigoiri arrives to seek the murderer and reluctantly accepts Nellie's help in the investigation. But when hapless tourists, lawless moonshiners, and hell-bent cowboys enter the picture, Nellie and Moonshine confront the greatest challenges yet to their courage andingenuity.
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January 30, 2017 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781432836375
- File size: 830 KB
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- ISBN: 9781432836375
- File size: 830 KB
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- English
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June 20, 2016
The rugged Stanley Basin of central Idaho is the star of Weston’s disjointed, meandering second Nellie Burns and Moonshine mystery (after 2015’s Moonshadows). In the summer of 1923, photographer Nellie Burns accepts an assignment to take scenic photos for railroad travel brochures. She arranges to spend several weeks operating out of a sheep camp deep in the mountains. But when she and her dog, Moonshine, arrive at the camp with the sheep rancher and relief sheepherder, they discover the shepherd on duty has been murdered. Nellie is caught in the middle of long-standing rivalries among sheep men and cattlemen, revenuers and moonshiners, and those promoting the region’s burgeoning tourist industry. Weston does a good job evoking the wild beauty of Idaho’s Sawtooth Range, and Nellie is a likable protagonist even though she is exasperatingly naive, jumping headlong into dangerous situations without considering the consequences. The ending offers a promising direction for subsequent installments.
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