LAKE OF TEARS
When I saw the review for LAKE OF TEARS, a mystery featuring a woman sheriff of a small town, I was thinking “Marge Gunderson!” No such luck. Although Mary Logue has published twelve mystery novels, many featuring Claire Watkins, this book is nothing like “Fargo”.
At the beginning of the book, the sheriff in the county seat of Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin, has a heart attack, and Claire takes his place, just in time to be confronted with a skeleton imbedded in a replica of a Norwegian longboat set afire to celebrate the town’s Norwegian heritage.
This book is different in that a couple of the characters are Afghanistan vets, suffering from PTS; one of the suspects who had been a boyfriend of the victim prior to his war service is a newly hired deputy on Claire’s staff. One of his best friends from the war also shows up looking for the deputy. Another suspect is the girl’s current boyfriend who had given her a diamond engagement ring. He and Andrew Stickler, the deputy, had locked horns previously, apparently over the girl.
Logue throwS in a further complication with Stickler, aged 26, dating her daughter, Meg, 18.
Otherwise, LAKE OF TEARS reads like a episode of “Law and Order” or one of the numerous cops shows on TV. It’s short, only 207 pages, and Logue takes the easy way out in respect to resolution, but I didn’t hate it. I guess I’ll have to wait for the new “Fargo” TV series, sanctioned by the Coen brothers, to get my “Fargo” buzz.
At the beginning of the book, the sheriff in the county seat of Fort St. Antoine, Wisconsin, has a heart attack, and Claire takes his place, just in time to be confronted with a skeleton imbedded in a replica of a Norwegian longboat set afire to celebrate the town’s Norwegian heritage.
This book is different in that a couple of the characters are Afghanistan vets, suffering from PTS; one of the suspects who had been a boyfriend of the victim prior to his war service is a newly hired deputy on Claire’s staff. One of his best friends from the war also shows up looking for the deputy. Another suspect is the girl’s current boyfriend who had given her a diamond engagement ring. He and Andrew Stickler, the deputy, had locked horns previously, apparently over the girl.
Logue throwS in a further complication with Stickler, aged 26, dating her daughter, Meg, 18.
Otherwise, LAKE OF TEARS reads like a episode of “Law and Order” or one of the numerous cops shows on TV. It’s short, only 207 pages, and Logue takes the easy way out in respect to resolution, but I didn’t hate it. I guess I’ll have to wait for the new “Fargo” TV series, sanctioned by the Coen brothers, to get my “Fargo” buzz.
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