High Walk

Stuart Mallory Mystery #3

by Ronald Clair Roat

Brownsville, Story Line Press,, 1996.. Very good in very good dust jacket.(remainder line, price-clipped.). First printing. The third Stuart Mallory mystery, set in the woodlands of Wisconsin and the Upper Michigan peninsula. 246 pp

Genres: Mystery

288 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1996

About the author

Ronald Clair Roat is the author of the Stuart Mallory Mystery Series. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1968 with a bachelor's in journalism. Later that year he was drafted into the U.S. Army and served about two years with a Nike Hercules missile battalion near Pittsburgh, Pa. Before becoming a journalism professor, he worked for several newspapers as a professional reporter, editor, or columnist. The newspapers included the Lansing State Journal, Morgantown, W.Va., Dominion News, Dayton Daily News, and The Times in Frankfort, Ind. He served as a journalism professor at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana, between 1986 and 2008 when he retired.

He is now working on the fourth novel in the Stuart Mallory series, Some in Velvet Gowns, and a book for college students, Autonomy. He lives in Manistee, Michigan, where he created the Remedial Academy, a podcast site:

Reviews

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stuart Mallory and Patti Bonnicelli are currently not seeing each other. It appears that Patti is not happy with her job. But, Stuart is busy answering a call from the father of one of his Vietnam compatriots. Bill Quinn reports that his son Scott has been missing for ten days.
This book has many more avenues to traverse than Roat's previous two novels. Finding Scott is a emotional journey as well as professional, since Mallory recalls the conflicts and not really friendship they had in Vietnam.
He call Patti, which has a touch and go improvement on their relationship.
I find this a even more compelling story than the previous two. The author was definitely a growing novelist.
Too bad, that's all there is.

[Rogue Reader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two Michigan mysteries back to back on my tbr - the other Loren Estleman's Motor City Blue. Lovely travelogue of the upper regions, forested and remote. Female characters are one dimensional, undeveloped.