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Mustang Sally #2

by Virginia Swift

Bar singer-turned-college professor Sally Alder knew supermarket checkout girl Monette Bandy from barbeques at the girl's aunt and uncle's place. But she never dreamed she'd be stumbling over Monette's battered corpse high up in the scenic Devil's Playground. Now it seems Sally's the only person in Laramie, Wyoming, who gives a hoot about the brutal slaying of an overweight, oversexed honky-tonk angel with a taste for the very worst specimens of the male animal. Somewhere in the drunken chaos of Laramie's Jubilee Days festival, a week of rodeo and revelry, a murderer lurks. As she digs into Monette's shady escapades, Sally discovers that hunting a killer in the midst of the biggest party of the year could prove a lot tougher, and more deadly, than she ever imagined.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Virginia Swift teaches history at the University of New Mexico. She also writes nonfiction under the name of Virginia Scharff. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Reviews

[Doreen Gardner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good paced read!

Ok, so this is a two cup of tea read. Great characters in a very believable situation. I was very entertained and loved the plot line. A bit dragged out in the story line where too much dialogue was unnecessary to the action but then the story recovered and zoomed off taking me with it. Stay with it - you will enjoy it!

[Deborah Wysinger · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun Honky-Tonk read.

[Katy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kitty Wells sang about the Lord didn't make honky tonk angels but a cheating man did.

A young woman, a clerk from the local grocer, was found raped and murdered by Sally and Hawk when they were hiking outside Laramie. It's Rodeo Days, so the town is overflowing with tourists, which complicates the investigation. Sally, a bar singer turned UW history professor, has a knack for asking for too many questions and "sticking her nose" in someone else's business. Hawk, her significant other, has a habit of watching Sally's back and being a guy who loves and protects the environment nearly as much as he loves Sally.

Sally finds though that her checkered past as a bar singer and former honky tonk angel just might get her killed. Someone she knows, then-now-or maybe from then to now, isn't happy with her questions and is out to shut her up somehow.

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I've never read one of the Mustang Sally books. But I will continue. While I read daily on this, I found there were many references to Sally's past and her relationships with the central characters and her coming to terms with the woman she was and how it shaped her to whom she now is. As the plot unwinded, it ties in perfectly. It was worth the extra time for reading and understanding.

[Francesca Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, serviceable mystery taking place in Wyoming during Laramie's Jubilee Days. Good characterization and dialogue; all in all, good light reading. I plan to find more "Mustang Sally" books by this author and read them.

[Anjula · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this one better than the first. But it felt internally repetitive. For a book published in 2002, the technology seems like the 90s.

[Kennedy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the other Mustang Sally books I read, but this one was such a struggle to finish.

[Adi Price · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Author Virginia swift
Pages 324
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