5.0 out of 5 stars
A thought-provoking whodunit, Sep 7 2000
This review is from: Deservedly Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
This literate, thought-provoking mystery features the sort of murder victim everyone loves to hate: an obnoxious Eastern invader who destroys the tranquillity of the beautiful Colorado valley where Shirley McClintock's ranch is situated. He's killed the trees, poisoned the water, built sheds with glaring tin roofs, and driven away the wildlife. And he runs a screaming scrub-clearing machine all day seven days a week. Of course, there's no shortage of suspects. Shirley is as outspoken as ever, and she voices plenty of opinions to unsettle liberals and conservatives both. B.J. Oliphant is a pseudonym of SF/fantasy author Sheri S. Tepper. This whole series is very entertaining, and so is her other series of whodunits, written under the name A.J. Orde.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Straight Shooting Logic, Oct 23 1998
This review is from: Deservedly Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
Oliphant, it seems, is incapable of writing a bad or even average mystery. Each one is bubbling with opinions, suspects and jerks just waiting to be bumped off. Her novels are down home and classy, hard edged and sweet and the unusual combinations always seem to work. If you read this book, be prepared to think and not just about who dunnit.
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