Diamondback Revenge

by Cindy Keen Reynders

Overview

Wyoming private investigator Reese Golden seeks a local shop owner's stolen rattlesnake taxidermy display. During her investigation, she exposes intrigue involving a woman's drowning, the brutal assault of the shop owner and another man's murder. Danger complicates Reese's objectives as she and police detective Jeremy Savage pursue justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684920556
Publisher:	Camel Press
Publication date:	04/11/2023
Series:	Reese Golden Mysteries , #2
Pages:	254
Sales rank:	652,733
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.63(d)

Editorial Reviews

02/13/2023

In Reynders’s uninspired sequel to 2022’s Wild Creek Whispers, Reese Golden, who resigned from the Denver PD after being shot on duty, has returned to her hometown of Meadowlark Valley, Wyo., to work as a PI. Her main diet of conducting background checks for the feds is leavened with occasional random cases. She chances into one when she stops at the Barking Squirrel gas station, whose proprietor, Ford Presley, tells her he’s been robbed. Worse, Ford’s daughter, Bella Northwood, a high school friend of Reese’s, drowned the day before during a whitewater rafting trip, though her body has not been recovered. The thief took some candy and jewelry, as well as an item of great sentimental value: a diorama including three rattlesnakes that Bella made for him. Reese agrees to try to recover the diorama, but a violent crime complicates her inquiry. Local color compensates only in part for underdeveloped characters and lengthy explanatory passages that slow the pace. Regional mystery fans will be disappointed. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

The second title in novelist Cindy Keen Reynders 'Reese Golden Mysterious' series, "Diamondback Revenge" is another deftly crafted story that will have immense appeal for fans of the cozy mystery genre. With an original and entertaining plot with more twists and turns than a Disneyland roller-coaster, "Diamondback Revenge" is unreservedly recommended for personal and community library Mystery/Suspense collections

Midwest Book Review

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