Bones of Paradise (Audiobook)

from Beamis12

Living in the sand hills of Nebraska takes a huge amount of determination, grit, and a love of the land. For Dulcinea and JB it was a place to ranch, raise a family and plan a future until it became instead a place where Dulcinea would loose her sons and run from her husband. There is of course a...

from jepeters333

Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee, JB Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on JB's land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of JB's family: his cunnin...

from carolfoisset

I enjoyed the historical aspects of this book and found some of the writing poetic and beautiful. Engaging characters and the setting is a character in itself. However, there were several times where the story seemed to veer off to a random conversation or idea right in the middle of a fairly inv...

from Pmaurer

Novel set in Nebraska, that I should like but I don't. Tale of the twin deaths of a rancher and a young Native American woman, and the long-absent wife trying to solve the crime. Many ties to Wounded Knee, and early Nebraska history. Author uses wayyyyyyyyyy to many pronouns, making it hard to f...

from Alphawoman

Good story. Way too much description that bogs down story and adds little to the intense family struggle. 10 years after Wounded Knee secrets and mistrust abound. I love good cowboy Indian stories beginning with Little Big Man and most recent the Color of Lightening. This Was A Pleasant Surprise!...