Think Holmes on the Range mixed with Harry Dresden and Anita Blake. Unlike most Occult Detective literature, the protagonist -- Cora Oglesby, has no pThink Holmes on the Range mixed with Harry Dresden and Anita Blake. Unlike most Occult Detective literature, the protagonist -- Cora Oglesby, has no powers. She doesn't commune with the Fay, she isn't half-something-or-other or an enchanted creature. Cora is just a deeply, deeply psychologically disturbed, but highly capapable, 100% human.
In the years just after the Civil War, she became a bounty hunter--then, after a chance meeting with a priest dealing with a pesky nest of Vampires--she became a legendary Hunter of monsters, carnivorous cryptids and mythic humanoids like vampires, werewolves and Wendigos. It's not quite made clear if the existence of such creatures are common knowledge in this Universe, as in Anita Blake, or if only those "in the know" are aware, like the Dresden series.
(view spoiler)[Collins telegraphed the "twist" coming a mile away, I spotted it all the way back in chapter 5. (hide spoiler)]
It was an interesting first book and series intro. I'll try the second book, and hope it doesn't leave me feeling so... Middling. ...more
Cowboys Otto “Big Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Gustav “Old Red” are back and they're tired. Tired of saddle sores and long trail rides. Old Red inCowboys Otto “Big Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Gustav “Old Red” are back and they're tired. Tired of saddle sores and long trail rides. Old Red insists they sign on to protect the luxurious new Pacific Express, despite a generations-old Amlingmeyer family distrust of the farm-stealin', cattle-killin', money-grubbin' railroads. Old Red knows that little brother, Big Red wants to take a stab at professional ‘detectifying’ just like his hero, Sherlock Holmes so they quickly find themselves hired on as guards for the railroad. Soon, the boys find themselves trapped on a train, summiting the Sierras en route to San Francisco with a gang of outlaws, a baggage car filled with secrets, and a vicious killer hidden somewhere amongst the passengers.
Cowboys Otto “Big Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Gustav “Old Red” in 1890s Montana have just been hired at the Bar VR Ranch. It's not a very pleasanCowboys Otto “Big Red” Amlingmeyer and his brother Gustav “Old Red” in 1890s Montana have just been hired at the Bar VR Ranch. It's not a very pleasant place, but a job's a job. One day, though, the boys come across the aftermath of a cattle stampede, complete with the aftermath of a body. How did this fellow meet his demise? A fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand, Old Red sees the perfect opportunity to employ his Holmes-inspired “deducifyin’” skills and sets out to solve the case. With Big Red as his Watson, "Holmes" is on the range....more
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