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Winter's Malice: A Black Hills Mystery Kindle Edition

by Belinda G. Buchanan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 65
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Three bodies in the span of twenty-four hours...

It's the dead of winter, and in Weeping Rock, South Dakota—a small town crippled by racism, drugs, and violence—Sheriff’s Deputy Liam Matthews has his work cut out for him when he steps in to take over the duties of sheriff from his father, who for far too long has turned a blind eye to certain crimes for what he says is the overall good of the town.

Coming under scrutiny for hiring a Lakota to fill his position as deputy, things quickly go from bad to worse for Liam when the body of retired pro-baseball player Hector Ramirez, who had recently returned home to coach ball at his high school alma mater, is found floating in Crow’s Foot Lake. Hector’s bludgeoned corpse is no sooner on its way to the M.E.’s office in Rapid City, however, when the partially clothed body of a young girl is discovered in a clearing in the snow.

With two seemingly unrelated murders, Liam is judged at every turn of his investigation by the local population, Hector’s reality TV star wife Kiki Grey, and his own father. Upon uncovering a tangled web of desperation, lies, and greed, the mounting pressure inside Liam to do the right thing becomes jaded when the skeletal remains of a third victim is found in a submerged car, bringing to the forefront a long-buried secret of his own—and threatening his already troubled marriage to his wife—as his past and present collide.

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    12 November 2019
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07YNFSN28
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1733 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 411 pages
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Belinda G. Buchanan

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I am an author of edgy, women's fiction & mystery.

My stories are filled with angst, intimacy, despair, and hope. If you like these things, and don't mind a few racy scenes or a sprinkling of profanity here and there, then my books are for you.

I have written five novels to date: "After All Is Said And Done", "The Monster of Silver Creek", "Seasons of Darkness", "Tragedy at Silver Creek" and "Winter's Malice".

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TN BOOK LOVER 1
5.0 out of 5 stars A new,author to devour!
Reviewed in the United States on 29 December 2022
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Sheriff Liam Matthews may be my new " best man". The story grabs my interest from the first page. The "bad guys" are pretty apparent but Liam has to get all the ducks in a row while distraction after distraction get in his way. I like him and look forward to seeing what happens, next.
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furinkazan
5.0 out of 5 stars Mehr davon
Reviewed in Germany on 8 June 2023
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spannender Plot, glaubwürdige Charaktäre, guter Erzählstil. Der junge Sheriff hat es nicht leicht, drei Leichen an einem Tag, die Ehe kurz vor dem zerbrechen, seinen ätzenden Vater, Vorgänger im Amt, der Probleme auf seine Art, allerdings nicht immer rechtskonform löste, im Haus. Und als Deputy einen Lakota, was im Ort kritisch gesehen wird, kann man denen doch nicht trauen. Die Geschichte war realistisch und atmosphärisch, davon hätte ich gerne noch mehr.
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Kerry L. Reis
4.0 out of 5 stars A Complex Character Small Town Drama Within a Police Procedural Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on 12 February 2022
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Liam Matthews, having just taken up the job of sheriff for the small town of Weeping Rock in South Dakota, a job his father held until an accident disabled him, finds himself suddenly dealing with three deaths, the body of a famous ex-professional baseball player found in the waters of an icy lake, a car with another body inside nearby in the same icy lake, and the body of a teenage girl found in nearby small clearing. The investigation of the three cases that may or may not be related involves a lot of time for him and his detectives, time that interferes with his tenuous relationship with his wife and his father, who is living with them while demanding that he be involved in helping with the cases and denigrating his son’s running of the his former position in the town. For impatient avid mystery fans, the story will mainly be somewhat disappointing, as the majority of the tale becomes more based on the tough relationships, marital, family, medical, and official, between multiple characters, putting the police procedural investigation and mystery revelations into a minor backseat. However, readers who are more enticed by a base drama built upon character complexity will be more engrossed in the in-depth writing of the multiple plots within the small rural town.
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Lee T
5.0 out of 5 stars Winter’s Malice: A Black Hills Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on 25 September 2022
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As much as I love mysteries, I enjoyed this book also because of the feeling of real life characters and daily life described by the author but not in such a manner that was boring.

The mystery part was just that and the surprise ending as well!!
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Elle Limpkin
4.0 out of 5 stars "Real" characters
Reviewed in the United States on 16 February 2020
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This is a character-driven story, with little attention paid to the murders and the other issues. If you like novels where you follow the characters around while they deal with their (realistic) life problems, chances are you’ll like this book.

But if you’re looking for a story centered on crime-solving (as I am), you may be disappointed. There are enough crimes, but they’re not the focus of the book, and their resolution is not as intriguing as I hoped.

Liam Mathews is a great character, and I rooted for him the entire time. As far as I’m concerned, he’s by far the best “thing” in the book. But don’t imagine he’s some perfect guy (although the physical description is a bit cliche). He has flaws, but he also has qualities that match them.

The ending was satisfying, the book finishing in a way that gave me closure. There was a particular suspense moment at the end that was nicely executed. (less)
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