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Mouriel: Secret of the Lost Crow
The Lost Crow Mine hides a secret — a secret worth killing for! And when the bones of James Barrett are found entombed in the solid rock of the Emma Mine, every crook in the valley wants to stake a claim to the Lost Crow. But Barrett was a cagey old man. Someone else knows the secret of the Lost Crow — and when the dead man's gun slinging partner shows up, Barrett’s killer could come down with a lethal case of lead poisoning and never discover the Secret of the Lost Crow.
325 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 12, 2013
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J.T. Fleming
3 books8 followersJ.T. Fleming is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Weber State University with a B.S. in English as well as a B.S. in Anthropology. Mr. Fleming works as a technical analyst for a manufacturing company and has published numerous stories as a community news correspondent with the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah.
Mr. Fleming has written three books in the Collin Mitchell western mystery series: Tracks of a Pigeon-toed Horse, The Obsidian Serpent & Mouriel.
Born and raised in Utah, Mr. Fleming is a member of the LDS church and has hunted deer, elk, and gold in the mountains and deserts of Utah and Colorado. With his wife and family, he lives west of the Wasatch Mountains, near the Great Salt Lake.
Mr. Fleming has written three books in the Collin Mitchell western mystery series: Tracks of a Pigeon-toed Horse, The Obsidian Serpent & Mouriel.
Born and raised in Utah, Mr. Fleming is a member of the LDS church and has hunted deer, elk, and gold in the mountains and deserts of Utah and Colorado. With his wife and family, he lives west of the Wasatch Mountains, near the Great Salt Lake.
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December 17, 2013
Miners at the Emma Mine in the Deep Creek Mountains of the Utah Territory get a little more than they bargained for after they blast one day. Along with a bigger hole, they find a man’s corpse. He appears recently deceased. How did he get into the solid rock above them? The county’s only deputy sheriff is ready to blame the two men who discovered the dead man, but it’s clear there was neither time to sneak the body in nor reason for them to kill him, whoever he may be. Plus, not all is as it appears at the Emma. Crews are routinely fired without apparent cause and fresh workers brought in.
This is the third of author J.T Fleming’s three mysteries set in territorial Utah of the 1860s. Main character Collin Mitchell is an ex-gunman who has the ear of Brigham Young, and is a seeming expert at finding lost people. He’s a veteran of the Black Hawk War, but as his friend Mort tells him, there is only one war. Mort hears voices and claims to be the Angel of Death. The cosmic war that Mitchell only half-believes is always going on in the background.
The strength of the story is in the characterizations, particularly of Mitchell. He is complex, wanting to finally settle down with his two wives and ranch, still haunted by the violence he’s seen. He’s educated, but doesn’t let on to his book learnin’ too often. However, the book is chock full of details about late 19th century mining techniques and territorial living. These are presented matter-of-factly, without didacticism.
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This is the third of author J.T Fleming’s three mysteries set in territorial Utah of the 1860s. Main character Collin Mitchell is an ex-gunman who has the ear of Brigham Young, and is a seeming expert at finding lost people. He’s a veteran of the Black Hawk War, but as his friend Mort tells him, there is only one war. Mort hears voices and claims to be the Angel of Death. The cosmic war that Mitchell only half-believes is always going on in the background.
The strength of the story is in the characterizations, particularly of Mitchell. He is complex, wanting to finally settle down with his two wives and ranch, still haunted by the violence he’s seen. He’s educated, but doesn’t let on to his book learnin’ too often. However, the book is chock full of details about late 19th century mining techniques and territorial living. These are presented matter-of-factly, without didacticism.
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