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"Jake Page launched Mo Bowdre as one of the most memorable heroes in recent mystery fiction. The blind sculptor from Santa Fe instantly grabbed a huge readership and won major praise from reviewers. Now, in The Deadly Canyon, Mo Bowdre is back, only this time out he just may have tackled more mystery than even he can handle." "As The Deadly Canyon opens, Bowdre and his lovely Anglo-Hopi girlfriend, Connie Barnes, find themselves at a remote desert research station in the bootheel of New Mexico. The station is an outpost of gossiping, back-biting research scientists thirty miles from the Mexican border and three hundred miles from nowhere, and an unlikely site for Bowdre's newest sculpture commission - not to mention conspiracy, sexual deception, smuggling, and murder." "When a female corpse turns up in the desert vastness of Skeleton Canyon, the research station is plunged into turmoil. Bowdre, with his sixth sense for trouble, goes into action when it is discovered that the murdered woman was not only a scientist, but also a special FBI agent. But the murder is only the first sharp thorn in a dense thicket of mystery." "Written with grit and honesty, peopled with an unforgettable cast of eccentrics, steeped in the harsh beauty of the New Mexican desert, The Deadly Canyon is at once a superbly crafted novel and a breath-taking mystery story. It is a triumphant sequel to The Stolen Gods."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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出版社周刊评论
Fans of Page's series hero, big, blind Santa Fe sculptor Mo Bowdre, will surely relish this sequel to The Stolen Gods . Readers unacquainted with Mo's charms may be somewhat mystified. The sculptor's character seems mostly defined by his laugh--a weird noise that punctuates his conversation at odd moments--and his sensitivity, which is here mentioned more than demonstrated. His Hopi lover, Connie Barnes, is enigmatic and silent to the point of caricature. She also does the driving, in this instance to a remote research institute in the wilds of New Mexico. There the FBI hopes to use Mo's gifts of detection to help them figure out the case that has led to an undercover agent's death at the bottom of Skeleton Canyon. The narrative thread knots as tribal legends about hidden gold tangle with with hints of a present-day smuggling ring and bitterly feuding academics. Page writes with masterful understatement about Mo's blindness--it is rarely referred to, and, beyond the driving limitations, doesn't much slow him down. The locales and cultural heritage represented here, however, have been plied to better effect in Tony Hillerman's mysteries and in James Doss's soon to be published debut, The Shaman Sings . (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
Blind Santa Fe sculptor Mo Bowdre has been commissioned to design a monumental sculpture for the Desert Research Center in the Peloncillo Mountains--but he hasn't; he's really been drafted, after his success in recovering The Stolen Gods (1993), to help FBI agent Larry Collins round up a ring of pre-Columbian antiquities smugglers. Though too many of the leading suspects, regrettably, turn out to be guilty, there's much to admire along the way--from Mo's effortless deductions about why a panicky killer would want to hide the body of a herpetologist recruited by the FBI but leave a second corpse out in the open, to an edgy, compelling portrait of the bounty hunter who uses his company, Venom Enterprises, to get revenge when his woman is killed. Just enough mystery to give the engaging cast something to do while they're waiting for the final holocaust.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Shambling giant Mo Bowdre is not only blind, he's also a noted sculptor--and the world's unlikeliest sleuth. With his loyal companion Connie Barnes, Mo is off on another adventure, this time at a remote scientific research station in New Mexico. Acting as an unpaid undercover agent for the FBI, Mo (whose cover story is that he's working on a sculpture for the research center) is supposed to find out who among the biologists, zoologists, entomologists, and herpetologists working at the compound might be using the site as a base for smuggling Indian artifacts out of Mexico. A female FBI agent has already been killed because she got too close to the truth, and before Mo can make much progress, there's a second murder. Page offers a clever plot, amusing dialogue, colorful characters, authentic details of the Southwest, some interesting scientific lore, and of course, the wonderfully vivid, larger-than-life Mo, one of the most appealing and unusual heroes in recent detective fiction. ~--Emily Melton
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Skeleton Canyon is a mysterious place, full of caves, exotic snakes, and interesting plants for examination by researchers and scientists at the Denver Museum's desert research station. When a dead woman is found in one of the many caves, it is discovered that she was an FBI agent searching for smuggled Aztec treasure. Enter Bowdre, a blind undercover investigator, and his Hopi girlfriend, as people begin to go missing and or turn up dead. Who is behind the murders? What are they trying to hide? Reader Buck Schirner helps keep this convoluted tale in order by identifying each character with a different accent and pace of speech. Recommended for mystery collections.-Miriam Kahn, Columbus, Ohio (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.