Our book critic recommends these two non-traditional mysteries for holiday gift-giving or reading.
Her latest novel is a mash-up of a Western, a serial killer mystery and a feminist erotic romp.is set in Monterey, Calif., during the Gold Rush era. Heroine Eliza Ripple is a young widow whose brutish husband was killed in a bar fight. Eliza shed no tears; in fact, she's happy earning her living in a local bordello. Not since Miss Kitty onhosted Marshal Dillon, Chester and Doc every night at the Longbranch Saloon has life in a bawdy house seemed so amiable.
The solution to the serial killings turns out to be"utterly unexpected"; but it's really the story of Eliza that commands attention: a woman stranded at the edge of the Pacific who's determined to hold onto her newfound autonomy.
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