Charles Fergus
Autore di Shadow Catcher
Sull'Autore
Charles Fergus is the author of nineteen books, including two collections of nature essays (The Wingless Crow and Thornapples), Trees of New England, Wildlife of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, Trees of Pennsylvania and the Northeast, Swamp Screamer, Bears: Wild Guide, and Turtles: Wild Guide. He mostra altro has written about natural history for many publications, including Pennsylvania Game News, Audubon, Northern Woodlands, Country Journal, and the New York Times. He works as an outreach and communications consultant for the Wildlife Management Institute, a private nonprofit scientific and educational organization. Fergus lives on a 120-acre hill farm in northern Vermont, where he enjoys improving habitats to attract and support local wildlife. See www.charlesfergus.com. mostra meno
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Opere di Charles Fergus
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Relazioni
- Brown, Nancy Marie (wife)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 22
- Utenti
- 351
- Popolarità
- #68,159
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 37
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 2
The Publisher Says: For fans of C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series, a fabulous historical mystery series set in early America.
“Deeply imagined and intricately plotted, A Stranger Here Below marries richly textured historical fiction with the urgency of a mystery novel. Fergus knows certain things, deep in the horses, hunting, the folkways of rural places, and he weaves this wisdom into a stirring tale.” – Geraldine Brooks, author of March and People of the Book
Set in 1835 in the Pennsylvania town of Adamant, Fergus’s first novel in a new mystery series introduces Sheriff Gideon Stoltz, who, as a young deputy, is thrust into his position by the death of the previous sheriff. Gideon faces his first real challenge as death rocks the small town again when the respected judge Hiram Biddle commits suicide. No one is more distraught than Gideon, whom the old judge had befriended as a mentor and hunting partner. Gideon is regarded with suspicion as an he’s new to town, and Pennsylvania Dutch in the back-country Scotch-Irish settlement. And he found the judge’s body.
Making things even tougher is the way the judge’s death stirs up vivid memories of Gideon’s mother’s murder, the trauma that drove him west from his home in the settled Dutch country of eastern Pennsylvania. He had also discovered her body.
At first Gideon simply wants to learn why Judge Biddle killed himself. But as he finds out more about the judge’s past, he realizes that his friend's suicide was spurred by much more than the man’s despair. Gideon’s quest soon becomes more complex as it takes him down a dangerous path into the past.
A Stranger Here Below is so atmospheric, so compelling and convincing, that readers will taste the grit of the dirt roads, cringe at the unsanitary conditions and medical superstitions that inflame a flu epidemic, and marvel at the immensely arduous task of carrying out an investigation using the primitive tools of the early 1800s. Fergus leaves us breathlessly waiting for the next Gideon Stoltz mystery.
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My Review: Sometimes someone dies who just needed killin'. As this very deliberately paced mystery unfolds, that's the victim. I wasn't sorry he was dead, and was a little peevish about Gideon caring so much as to keep pursuing the matter. Well, anyway, if you're in the mood for a really atmospheric historical read, here's a very good candidate.
The blurb from Geraldine Brooks should tell her fans what they need to know: It's very immersive and has three-dimensional characters. I don't rate it higher because it was slow to get moving and occasionally wandered off down interesting but unnecessary tangents. I will, however, read the next one when Skyhorse Publishing brings it out.… (altro)