A Widow's Curse

Usually, I love DePoy's outings with his somewhat bizarre protagonists, Foggy Moskowitz and Fever Devilin, in their separate series. I like Foggy a bit better than Fever, on the whole. But Fever's Appalachian setting and his folklore research are an automatic draw for me. This particular entry in his escapades was a bit of an unedited muddle, I felt. Too many repetitions as characters get filled in on details the reader has already learned; too much back story/family history that fails to get fully tied in to the central mystery (I STILL don't quite understand the motivation of the killer); overuse of the "I swore I would never tell"; "these people keep their secrets" and "Oh my god how did I never know this before" elements. Parts of show more it tore along, and other parts suffered serious pacing issues. The dialog needed work, AND there were multiple errors a proofreader shoulda woulda caught. I don't know where this leaves me as far as reading any more of the Devilin series. I really enjoyed the first three, so I will probably return after a reasonable interval and give him another chance. show less

Not to Bad it has alot of histort on folklore and Native Americans. Over all a good thriller keeps you guessing.