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The Musher Man
Set in the late 1960’s Montana, The Musher Man brings a Jack the Ripper character into a Jack London winter wilderness environment.
Denali (Denny) Darkcloud and his mother, a Haitian American voodoo nurse, find the perfect rural homestead to start the life they always wanted. She could follow her families practice of serving women in need, while Denny learns the intricacies of healthcare and gains the friendship and responsibility of caring for nine sled trained dogs.
Life was perfect, until Denny witnessed the brutal murder of his mother. He escaped the killer’s wrath, via dogsled through a snowstorm.
After reporting the murder, Denny departs for military service and becomes a Vietnam medic, honoring both his mother and his Kootenai father. Years later, he returns home to discover that authorities have no suspect in his mother’s murder. Unknown to Denny, the killer crafted evidence implicating a young man with sled dogs in the brutal murder and connected Denny to three similar winter slayings. Now the killer desperately wants him dead.
Denali (Denny) Darkcloud and his mother, a Haitian American voodoo nurse, find the perfect rural homestead to start the life they always wanted. She could follow her families practice of serving women in need, while Denny learns the intricacies of healthcare and gains the friendship and responsibility of caring for nine sled trained dogs.
Life was perfect, until Denny witnessed the brutal murder of his mother. He escaped the killer’s wrath, via dogsled through a snowstorm.
After reporting the murder, Denny departs for military service and becomes a Vietnam medic, honoring both his mother and his Kootenai father. Years later, he returns home to discover that authorities have no suspect in his mother’s murder. Unknown to Denny, the killer crafted evidence implicating a young man with sled dogs in the brutal murder and connected Denny to three similar winter slayings. Now the killer desperately wants him dead.
297 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 23, 2023
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November 30, 2025
Good tale with some interesting connections between the characters. The pace flowed well until the ending, where i felt it was too quick and the ending abrupt. The characters in the novel, for the most part, had personalities and were more than one-dimensional, with their lack of pain or surprise over the death of those closest to them being the one hiccup to the feel. The novel was not at all what i thought it would be and that was pretty awesome. This book was worth reading.
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