The Sorrow Hand - Dwight Holing

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Résumé :
The riveting first novel in the thrilling series featuring wildlife ranger Nick Drake from award-winning author Dwight Holing.In the unforgiving silence of the high desert, a killer is turning gullies into graves. Nick Drake returned from Vietnam with a boxful of medals and a duffle bag packed with demons. Trained to kill but left to find his own way back into society, he flees to the High Lonesome of Eastern Oregon in search of a hard-won peace. As a wildlife ranger patrolling the vast, isolated refuges there, he expects his biggest conflicts to be stray cattle and low-level poachers. Then he finds the body. Deep in a sunbaked gully, a young girl has been ritually murdered and meticulously placed. The horrific discovery shatters Nick's illusion of sanctuary, plunging him back into humanity's heart of darkness. To stop a calculating killer from turning the desert gullies into a graveyard, Nick must weaponize the very instincts he's trying to escape. But in a pitiless territory where the heat sears and the silence judges, tracking a predator means confronting the darkness within himself. What readers are saying: Smart, thrilling, beautifully written page-turners. A stunning love song to a remote land. Prose that crackles like the unforgiving setting, building to a climax as powerful as a force of nature. A masterful blend of high desert realism and deep respect for Native American culture, lore, and mysticism. The storylines are absolutely riveting, keeping me up turning pages late into the night. Nick Drake is wonderfully complex, gritty, and straight to the heart. A man to run the river of life with!...

Biographie:
Dwight Holing is the author of twenty books, including two bestselling mystery series: the multiple award-winning Nick Drake Novels and the Jack McCoul Capers. He is an active member of the Mystery Writers of America, Western Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime, where he serves on the board of directors for the Capital Crimes chapter.His novels have earned numerous accolades, including the CLUE Grand Prize for Best Thriller & Suspense, the Silver Falchion and Laramie awards for Best Western, and the IABC Silver Medal for Mystery & Thriller. Dwight lives beside a coastal river in California with his wife and their two dogs, who would both much rather swim than walk....

Sommaire:
For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly. A contemporary western thriller. Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves. What readers are saying: Fits right alongside Craig Johnson, C.J. Box, and Nevada Barr. I'm a huge fan of contemporary westerns married with a mystery. This nails it. Nick Drake is wonderfully complex. His backstory in Vietnam is beautifully (and horrifically) described. The supporting characters feel so real. The old lawman, Deputy Pudge Warbler, is as flinty and resolute as his pitiless territory. I absolutely loved the Native American character, her language and myths. Got it on Friday and finished it on Saturday. An amazing read. Smart, thrilling, and action-packed. The prose crackles like the high desert setting. The descriptions of the natural surroundings put me right there. I could touch, smell, and hear it....