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(More customer reviews)I am familiar with a lot of William Sanders' fantasy and alternate history, but SMOKE was the first mystery of his that I read. The main character is Hosea Smoke, a Cherokee woodcarver who's selling his art work at a week-long Native American Cultural Festival at a small college in Oklahoma. Hosea finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation when he discovers one of the other exhibitors dead in his trailer. Power and influence, campus cops (one of whom is Hosea's nephew), and Cherokee customs all come into play to complicate Hosea Smoke's life.
I love the way the story unfolds as the pieces of the mystery fall into place. What was really special for me as a reader, though, was that about halfway through the book, I realized that I was matching faces and voices from my past with the characters in SMOKE and watching the action as much as I was reading the words. Sanders writes about real people in real situations. I've been in these settings, overheard these people talking, and seen them doing what they do.
I like it when a book comes alive for me like SMOKE does. It's been a good book to pull out and reread just for the sheer pleasure of it, straight through from the beginning or just going through and chuckling again at the favorite bits. My husband loved this mystery, too. Normally, our reading tastes differ, but we definitely agreed that this book's great.
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