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    DreadfulWater

    By Thomas King

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    The award-winning, bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian masters the comic mystery novel in this series opener, starring ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater

    Thumps DreadfulWater is a Cherokee ex-cop trying to make a living as a photographer in the small town of Chinook, somewhere in the northwestern United States. But he doesn’t count on snapping shots of a dead body languishing in a newly completed luxury condo resort built by the local Indian band. It’s a mystery that Thumps can’t help getting involved in, especially when he realizes the number one suspect is Stick Merchant, anti-condo protester and wayward son of Claire Merchant, head of the tribal council and DreadfulWater’s sometimes lover. Smart and savvy, blessed with a killer dry wit and a penchant for self-deprecating humour, DreadfulWater just can’t manage to shed his California cop skin. Before long, he is deeply entangled in the mystery and has his work cut out for him.

    A novel that will appeal to mystery fans as well as Thomas King’s loyal audience, DreadfulWater Shows Up is a catchy, clever read.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781443403597
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    DreadfulWater
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    Thomas King

    THOMAS KING has written several highly acclaimed children’s books. A Coyote Solstice Tale, illustrated by Gary Clement, won the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award for Best Picture Book and A Coyote Columbus Story, illustrated by William Kent Monkman, was a Governor General’s Award finalist. He was a Professor of English at the University of Guelph for many years, where he taught Native Literature and Creative Writing. He won the Governor General’s Award for his adult novel, The Back of the Turtle, and he has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

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    • 3/5
      Thomas King's writing is amusing, wry, insightful. His DreadfulWater series describes the ambience of a city-dwelling Indian in small town Montana. The mystery was somewhat convoluted and kept taking off in different directions, which leaves the reader stranded at several points. Highly quotable prose that is charming and eggs the reader to keep on: "The man had no more romance than a kleenex", for instance. Don't let the lurid cover art put you off!
    • 4/5
      Pretty typical murder mystery benefits greatly from Thomas King's unique voice, a collection of unusual and Mostly endearing characters, and a very Canadian setting. A luxury resort/casino and a series of suspicious deaths, a retired cop turned photographer, a melange of locals, outsiders arriving in a helicopter... Well that's about all you need for an afternoon of delightful entertainment. It's not one of his best, but not bad for light reading.
    • 3/5
      Cozy Western MysteryReview of the 2017 reissue of "DreadfulWater Shows Up" (2002)Thomas King has recently rebooted his DreadfulWater amateur detective series with "Cold Skies" (2018) and "A Matter of Malice" (2019). This provides for reissue editions of the original books in the series from 2002 and 2006 with atmospheric landscape photos added to the covers which are now in the spirit of Thumps DreadfulWater's post-police fine-art photography career in which he occasionally doubles as a crime-scene tech. In the present case, Thumps is asked to help investigate the murder of a security systems analyst working in the setup of a soon-to-be-opened casino/condo complex on a first nations reserve.The Thumps DreadfulWater series is solidly in the cozy mystery realm except in a setting of Indian Reserves with modern day issues such as casinos/indigenous rights added to the mix. King has a good ear for dialogue banter and Thumps makes for an engaging likeable lead character.ObservationThis isn't advertised as a Large-Print edition, but the font has definitely been boosted to about 14-points in order to bulk up the reprint to a medium-doorstopper level of 448 pages, from the original 2002 edition's 240 pages. Some sort of publisher psychological persuasion to convince you that the book is more substantial than a light mystery?