Andrew Hunt is crackerjack at both." BookBrowse“This engrossing historical debut is set in 1930 Salt Lake City and based on a true case. The procedural steadily builds up steam and explodes in all the right places.” Library Journal (starred review) on City of Saints“Mixing in a terrifically paced plot and a memorable policeman hero .City of Saints is full
| Title | : | A Killing in Zion: A Mystery (An Art Oveson Mystery) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250064627 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 400Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-9-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Andrew Hunt is crackerjack at both." BookBrowse“This engrossing historical debut is set in 1930 Salt Lake City and based on a true case. The procedural steadily builds up steam and explodes in all the right places.” Library Journal (starred review) on City of Saints“Mixing in a terrifically paced plot and a memorable policeman hero .City of Saints is full of juicy twists that go deep into Mormon doctrine and travel as far as Hollywood.” National Post (Canada) on City of Saints“Terrific Set in Salt Lake City in 1930 and based on the real-life murder of a wealthy socialite and aspiring Hollywood actress, the novel reveals a world of political pandering and murderous machinations that we usually associate with Chicago from this period.” Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee) on City of Saints“Hunt's first-person narrative in this gritty mystery is spot-on and conjures up a disturbing portrait of Salt Lak
They have so much to put in such a small space. Within days I was reading it to my son's first grade class and his teacher was absolutely thrilled. Particularly fascinating for me was the bond between Adela and Rob. (In that regard, consider L. Bravo to the author! If you want to improve your clinical skills, learn new ones, etc., get this book. The students love the book and it is a fun way to present a California tribe's legend.. Does this make this review biased? Quite possibly, but it also means I know the man behind the book. However, for someone who knows nothing of Xing Yi and buys this book, like I did, it will be a confusing and hard read, even harder application, and the chances of becomeing martially adept at this before next decade with just this book are pretty slim. No other self-defense training is so effective and so simple at the same time. It also came very quickly.. And with one single mistake, his world crashes in front of him. My son began reading these books in kindergarten and fAN ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELIn the scorching, drought-plagued summer of 1934, as wildfires burn across Utah, Detective Lieutenant Art Oveson faces a unique assignment. A Killing in Zion portrays a city and a religion struggling to grow and shake off a notorious history that has not yet become a thing of the past.. Soon, however, Art discovers that the sect has much more to hide than he thought.Historian and Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of City of Saints Andrew Hunt returns to 1930s Salt Lake City in this deeply researched mystery. Is she the victim's daughter, a child bride, or the murderer herself? Art attempts to investigate the death, as well as discover her identity, despite a "wall of silence" put up by polygamists who would rather mete out their own rough justice. Salt Lake City's mayor has tapped him to revive the Anti-Polygamy Squad, a unit formed years earlier for the purpose of driving out the city's "plural marriage zealots." As a Mormon ashamed of his own ancestors' part in the church's polygamist past, Art is eager to do his part to flush out the extremists.Then a local polygamist "prophet" is brutally murdered and a shell-shocked young girl is found at the scene of the crimeANDREW HUNT is a professor of history in Waterloo, Ontario. . He grew up in Salt Lake City and currently lives in Canada. He has written reviews for The Globe and Mail and The National Post, and is the author oftwo works of nonfiction, The Turning and David Dellinger, and is coauthor of The 1980s. His first novel in the Art Oveson series, City of Saints, was the winner of the Hillerman Prize in 2011. His areas of study include post-1945 U.S. History, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the American West
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