The Big Seven (Faux Mystery)

ISBN: 0802124666

Author: Harrison, Jim

Condition: New

Harrisons writing is always exhilarating. An added strength is his penchant for delightfully flawed but deeply human characters. Sunderson doesnt disappoint.-Seattle TimesThe pleasures of The Big Seven are found most often in Sundersons troubled, heavily marinated meditations . . . Such is Harrisons gift for conveying human consciousness and all its vexing diversions and understatements and circular thoughts.-New York Times Book ReviewA national bestseller from one of our most renowned and popular authors, The Big Seven finds Detective Sunderson settling into a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigans Upper Peninsula, where he soon realizes that his neighbors may be as dangerous as any maniac he faced in his cop days. A family of outlaws, armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sundersons cleaning lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sundersons advice on a crime novel hes writing which may not be fiction. Sunderson must struggle with the evil within himself and the greater, more expansive evil of his neighbor.Harrison is an old master, here on top of his game . . . Harrison is maybe a little bit like . . . Elmore Leonard (to whom Sunderson pays tribute), in that both write prose, easy on the eye, that seems so natural as to be effortless. That kind of writing is, of course, anything but effortless-it takes genius, but mostly experience, intuition and discipline. And a somewhat raffish charm, like Harrisons, doesnt hurt.-The Cleveland Plain DealerWhimsical and bawdy fun . . . Harrison writes beautifully about fishing and the outdoors.-Washington Post

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