Mineral Spirits: A Novel

If you're looking for a story that evokes the beauty of the mountains and rivers of Montana along with the hard scrabble towns that dot its' landscape you will find it here, written by an author that has a fierce love of it. But this is more than just a 'regional' piece of fiction. The characters are deeply believable, struggling through difficult situations the best way they can find. My bet is that you will find yourself rooting for them. I sure did.

Ten-year-old finds a skeleton of a woman on the banks of a river that runs through a small town in Wyoming. Sheriff Kip Edelson then gets the job of finding out who the victim is and what happened to her. Too many characters, not enough character development, and the different story lines never really come together. The descriptive writing about Montana is good but is not enough to make up for the lack of a good story.