Bone Rattler Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America, (Paperback)

from hc1986

At times, this book held my complete attention, but more often my mind would wonder while I was reading and I found myself having to go back and review to find out who said what when. Part of the problem is that I am not a big fan of historical fiction (although, to the book's credit, I now know ...

from snotbottom

I liked this one quite a lot; well written, good story, done.

from bezoar44

This mystery, set in Colonial America, includes several of the distinctive themes and elements of Pattison's Inspector Shan series: an aggressive, technologically advanced culture is colonizing and oppressing the native culture; the protagonist is a mystic skeptic whose actions are interpreted as...

from catrn

This historical mystery is not the type that will have one turning pages way into the night rather it will have the reader slowly gathering clues fitting pieces of the jigsaw together. It starts aboad a convict ship bound for the americas carrying Scot highlanders. Several murders and suicides oc...

from Limelite

Fantastic book. Loved the writer's minimalist, in-and-out-of-shadows writing style. Fascinating way to get the personal understanding of what it might have been like to have been a Scot living in America during colonial times when entrepreneureal land grant holders set themselves up as demi-kings...