Friday, December 7, 2012
Tucker Peak by Archer Mayor
To its visitors, the resort area Tucker Peak is Vermont personified: small, thinly populated, a fun place to ski all day and party all night. To its beleaguered owners, it is a resort on the ropes, undersized, underdeveloped, and hemorrhaging money. Their plan: expand and spend a fortune on the gamble. But two problems quickly arise when environmentalists rally to protest the development and the slope-side condo owners suffer a rash of seemingly unsolvable burglaries.
Enter Joe Gunther and the newly minter Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Summoned by the embattled local sheriff, Joe doesn't take long to find out that the most likely thief has mysteriously vanished- leaving behind his dead girlfriend- or to discover that some of the protesters may have more on their agenda than protecting the environment.
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This is one of the first murder mysteries I have ever read. After I finished Amazonia I decided to try reading a mystery novel. Missy located some on the shelf. Then the next morning I found some more on my desk. One of them I noticed was based in Vermont. Vermont being a small state with no Las Vegas or Los Angeles, I like seeing a piece of media or book based in Vermont. When I started reading it, I noticed some familiar names such as Brattelboro and Stowe. As I kept reading I realized I am not really interested in the book. Honestly I will probably stop reading this book.
ReplyDeleteToday I was talking to Alden and I saw he was blogging about the River by Gary Paulsen. I had read the first two books in the series when I was much younger. Paulsens' books are small and easy to read,. but I really love the adventure in them. I believe I will start reading the next book in the series, loaned to me by Alden.