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Summary: Six Pound Walleye....like a letter from home
Review: Having lived in the city she renamed "Rutherford" for more than 30 years, it was like a letter from home. I could visulize the locations and the buildings described. I even identified the town where Jake Hines lived in the old farm house. My graandson is a cop in Lake City, a real river town.
Besides all that, the plot was well concieved and carried out. I enjoyed it and passed it on to my daughter who still lives there.
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Summary: It's not the 87th Precinct
Review: It's not even close - geographically or literarily - to Ed McBain's fictionalized N. Y.C. Ms. Gunn's series is set in Rutherford, MN , which appears to be Rochester without Mayo (Clinic.) This is the first of this series I have read & it is merely "OK." I get the impression that Gunn is pandering to Howard Mohr's "How to Talk Minnesotan" and the Coen Bros. "Fargo" crowd, both of which are far better & more worth the time than this imitation. For cold climate crime-solving, I recommend instead Steve Hamilton's Alex McKnight series (U.P. MI) or Kathleen Taylor's Tory Bauer (S.D.)
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Summary: Small-town Mystery
Review: We have a small boy who, standing at a bus stop in a group of other people, is shot dead. Nobody saw or heard anything. We have a high school, where World War III breaks out among the hockey players - and the son of police chief McCafferty in the midst of it. And we have Detective Jake Hines, who has trouble with his girl friend.The book is well written, but brings nothing new or exiting. In a way, it just plods along until everything is solved - including the girl friend.
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