Cold Country, Russell Rowland
Cold Country, Russell Rowland
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Cold Country

Author: Russell Rowland

Narrator: Angelo Di Loreto

Unabridged: 7 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2020


Synopsis

Montana, 1968: The small town of Paradise Valley is ripped open when popular rancher and notorious bachelor Tom Butcher is found murdered one morning, beaten to death by a baseball bat. Suspicion among the tight-knit community immediately falls on the outsider, Carl Logan, who recently moved in with his family and his troubled son Roger. What Carl doesn't realize is that there are plenty of people in Paradise Valley who have reason to kill Tom Butcher. Complications arise when the investigating officers discover that Tom Butcher had a secreta secret he kept even from Junior Kirby, a lifelong rancher and Butchers best friend. As accusations fly and secrets are revealed one after another, the people of Paradise Valley learn how deeply Tom Butcher was embedded in their lives and that they may not have known him at all. With familiar mastery, Russell Rowland, the author of In Open Spaces and Fifty-Six Counties, returns to rural Montana to explore a small town torn apart by secrets and suspicions and to explore how the tenuous bonds of friendship struggle to hold against the differences that would sever us.

About Russell Rowland

Russell Rowland is an experienced author who received his master's degree in creative writing from Boston University. His novels have garnered many starred reviews, and, when not reading or writing, he can be found teaching online workshops or consulting with writers.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

By the strictest definition you could call COLD COUNTRY a murder mystery, but this latest novel by Russell Rowland is much more concerned with the effect that Tom Butcher, alive and dead, had on his fellow ranchers and ranch workers — and their wives and children — in Paradise Valley, Montana, in th......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl

This wasn’t my type of mystery, it was set in ranching country around a family who moves there. The wife grew up on a ranch and is unhappy that here teacher husband left his job and started working at a ranch.A murder happens and as newcomers they are the first suspect.......more

Goodreads review by Sue

Enjoyed the characters and sense of place. Really felt like I got to know and like the people in this town. I will admit though that the non-linear timeline made me confused more than once. While I understand the way it helped keep the suspense going I wonder if a few less back and forth could have......more