White Liners: Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery Sketches

Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery #0.5

by R.E. Donald

Love a good mystery? Three short stories introduce the three main characters from R.E. Donald’s Highway Mysteries series, traditional mysteries featuring Hunter Rayne, a former homicide detective turned long haul truck driver. His boss is Elspeth Watson, also known to her drivers as Big Mother Trucker. In spite of being a woman in a man's world, she has no trouble keeping her drivers in line. Hunter also has a friend and sometime co-driver named Dan Sorenson. He's a garrulous biker who sometimes has difficulty with impulse control. Meet these three characters for free and if you like spending time with them, you might just have found yourself a favorite new mystery series.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Short Stories

23 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 14, 2015

Reviews

[Toni Osborne · Rating 1 out of 5]

A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery Sketches

I didn’t realize this was a series of three very short stories 21 pages in all, sketches introducing the author’s main character and two supporting players in the main series “Hunter Rayne Highway Mysteries”. I like the main series so when I saw “White Liners” I just picked it up but what a disappointment when I noticed what this book really was. I don’t really know why authors spend time doing this kind of promotion….it was a freebie at the time, thank goodness.

Each stories is way too short to have time getting into the swig of it, to get hooked and be captivated. As soon as you open the story it is already finished….so what is the point……

Pass on this one, but give the full novels a chance they are well-worth it. I read a few and have enjoyed them immensely.

[Black Butterfly · Rating 5 out of 5]

ENJOYED!

[Scott Kalas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Characters I like to read more of

I read the first book Slow Curve on the Coquihalla and wasn’t sold but this one pushed me into wanting to read the series. Definitely would if it was Kindle Unlimited, but such is life. The language is definitely not my thing, but I can live with it.

[Denise Zendel · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn’t realize until I read this that it was three “sketches” of the main character and two large supporting characters in the Hunter Rayne Highway Mysteries, rather than a full-length novel, or even a novella. This brief read provides three pieces on main character Hunter Rayne, a long-haul trucker/retired RCMP detective; his sometimes boss, Elspeth Watson aka Big Mother Trucker; and sort-of friend/co-driver Dan Sorenson.

I am a huge fan of this series, but this entry was a disappointment. My fault for not more thoroughly reading the description before I hit the purchase button, I guess. It seemed to me like the “extras” on a DVD – mildly interesting, but you can see why they were cut scenes, and you think, well, that’s 15 minutes of my life I won’t get back. As far as providing a little background into each of the characters, it was ok for what it was, but I felt like these were scenes the author cut from a book or books, didn’t know what else to do with them, and had an electric bill to pay, so why not publish them.

I strongly recommend the other books in this series – interesting plots, great setting (Canada), tight dialogue, likeable characters … This one – meh. I’m glad it wasn’t my first contact with the author, because I probably would not have discovered the wonderful character Hunter Rayne. He’s a bit old-fashioned, driven, the kind of guy you’d want around if you were in trouble. He’s flawed, but he keeps on trying to do the right thing. Don’t let this be your first contact with Hunter or the author.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good book, all things considered.

[Roger · Rating 4 out of 5]

Received as a free book by B&N, enjoyed reading and may try others in the series. Recommend this book at least.

[Chris Blackton · Rating 1 out of 5]

The synopsis of this book states that it gives some insight into three characters from the Hunter Rayne series. Didn’t work for me, just left me thinking “Duh!”

[Garth Mailman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three short stories involving truck drivers.

[Tonya Sullivan · Rating 1 out of 5]

total waste of time

At least it was free on kindle Unlimited. I don’t see a single redeeming point to this. It’s absurd to even call it short stories.

[Johnny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, character self-desciptive... leads to wanting more...