Dakota

This book is disturbing both because of its complete lack of closure as well as the horrible things that happen to animals. So, it's basically just like the first Andi Oliver book. Andi has graduated from saving animals from leg traps, canned hunts and dogfights to agribusiness and slaughterhouses. She's also still searching for her missing memory, but this book focuses a lot more on the former than the latter, which is unfortunate. I want to read about what happened to Andi to make her have amnesia, not pigs being drug around by their ears. Grimes writing is still fantastic: vivid, genuine and eloquent, which makes the scenes in the slaughterhouse more disturbing, but also allows the reader to appreciate the beauty of the North Dakota show more scenery.
Both of Grimes' young female characters, Andi and Emma (Hotel Paradise), put themselves in situations that could be dangerous and are a lot more trusting of strange men than I would be, but Grimes allows more bad things to happen to Andi than she ever did to Emma. This is more realistic, but, again, disturbing to read about.
Really, though, most of all, I'd just like some closure. show less

If you're going to write a book and place the main character amongst horses, you should know the difference between a halter and a bridle. You should also know that there is no such thing as a "chestnut bay." An irritating and implausible sequel to the first Andi Oliver book.

Good character, and well written, without the silly characters of the Jury books

This is the second in a series. I loved the story line and the character; however, this particular story (and indeed the series at large) has no ending. Very irritating "end" to a good story.

Not a Richard Jury mystery, but I read it anyway. It was "pretty good", girl with amnesia wandering the country. A bit of a stretch, but she meets some "plainsong" folks along the way, so all is not lost.

A girl with amnesia finds her way to a horse ranch. Not one of my favourite Martha Grimes.