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Lucky Strike | 
 enlarge | Author: Nyla Griffith
Creator: Thomas D. Griffith
Publisher: TDG Communications, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1638502
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 245
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 097935840X
EAN: 9780979358401
ASIN: 097935840X
Publication Date: March 15, 2007
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Product Description
The brutal murder of a close friend draws Gretchen Mitchell into a treacherous search for her killer through the mysterious history of the gold-filled gulch of Deadwood. Lured by a hidden fortune in gold, Gretchen struggles to trust the men she meets in the dangerous and puzzling pursuit of her friend's murderer. History unfolds, revealing hidden clues as Gretchen fights to draw back the veil and discover, not only her friend's killer, but the truth about the fortunes of fate of those in whose century-old footsteps she walks.
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Solid Western Mystery - Even for Non-Western Mystery Readers July 23, 2007
Dustin D. Floyd (Deadwood, SD USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm really not one for Westerns. Or mysteries. Or Western mysteries. I usually stick to histories, biographies, the classics and, every now and then, science fiction and fantasy. But as one who's lived in and continues to work in Deadwood, South Dakota, where Lucky Strike is set, the novel was something of a mandatory read.
And it was worth it.
As a history buff, Lucky Strike appealed to me for its well-researched, nuanced detail. The book is set in both 1870s and modern Deadwood, and Griffith has captured - for me, anyway - the sense of both, largely through detail. Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of Deadwood, the Black Hills and Dakota Territory should find the setting pretty fascinating. As a nominal Deadwood resident, its portrayal of modern Deadwood was just as interesting to me.
If anything could be picked on, it would probably be Griffith's somewhat clunky writing style and her occasional tendency to use some pretty kitschy metaphors. Then again, so does J.K. Rowling. But, just as with Rowling's Harry Potter series, the stylistic faults didn't detract me from the overall narrative flow.
An excellent (albeit quick) read, the book is definitely worth it, especially for its low price: one of the benefits of finding an author who hasn't been picked up by a big publishing house yet.
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