Black Hills, Franklin Schneider
Black Hills, Franklin Schneider
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Black Hills

Author: Franklin Schneider, Jennifer Schneider

Narrator: Carly Robins

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/11/2016

Synopsis

“Black Hills is a fast paced and very entertaining read full of unpredictable twists and turns.” —New York Daily NewsWhen Brooklyn private investigator Alice Riley reluctantly travels to Whitehurst, South Dakota, to investigate an assault charge against her ex-boss’s husband, she discovers more than just a tawdry small-town scandal. A surveyor for the local fracking operation, the accused was leading a dangerous double life—shacking up with a prostitute named Kim and overindulging in Whitehurst’s deadly new drug, a powerful stimulant called “devil dust.”Out of her element in this badlands boomtown, Alice joins forces with the street-smart Kim, whose connections open doors some in town would rather keep closed. Working together, they descend into the heart of the local drug trade, unraveling a decades-old conspiracy that reaches to the top of Whitehurst’s social strata.As Alice comes closer to cracking the case, however, people around her start disappearing. With the case and her life spinning out of control, Alice embarks on a single-minded, dust-fueled campaign to expose the truth—an effort that will take her to the darkest places imaginable.

About Franklin Schneider

Franklin Schneider studied writing at the University of Iowa. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir Canned: How I Lost Ten Jobs in Ten Years and Learned to Love Unemployment.

About Jennifer Schneider

Jennifer Schneider lives and works in New York City. She has an MFA from the University of Wyoming. She writes with her brother often; this is their first published project together.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on March 18, 2010

When will Dan Simmons come up with some original ideas? This latest is about a Lakota (Sioux) Indian named Paha Sapa (which means Black Hills) who has the psychic ability to read a person’s memories and get a glimpse of their future by touching them. After trying to count coup on a dying soldier at......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on April 21, 2015

The beauty of Dan Simmons is how well he transcends genre. Not content to just be a science-fiction novelist, or a horror novelist, or a crime novelist, or a historical ficiton novelist, he does a bit of dabbling in all of those genres. And that's the thing: he doesn't just dabble. He kicks each gen......more

Goodreads review by 11811 (Eleven) on February 06, 2017

I'm not sure why I finished listening to this but every time I thought I was at a dead end it would turn back onto Fascination Street. (Maybe not the same street The Cure sang about. That would require further tiresome research.) I love Simmons but, like his genres, my ratings are all over the place.......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on July 16, 2020

It's been almost a full year since I've read my first Simmons novel, Summer of Night. Black Hills will mark my seventh Simmons read. Contrary to popular opinion, this one ranks as one of my favorites by him. I can easily see why people would think that this is boring, and for a number of reasons. F......more

Goodreads review by Jim on April 14, 2025

5 STARS. It helped my enjoyment of this novel that I was staying in and traveling around the Black Hills while reading this novel. I strongly identified with the main character, Paha Sapa ("Black Hills"), a Lakota who was named for the sacred land of the Lakota. He has a strong connection to that l......more

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