The Forever Feet

Nick Drake #6

by Dwight Holing

Genres: Mystery

320 pages, Paperback

Published January 26, 2022

About the author

Dwight Holing is the author of twenty books, including two Amazon #1 bestselling mystery series: the Silver Falchion Award-winning Nick Drake Novels and the Jack McCoul Capers. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Western Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.

His ten-book-and-counting Nick Drake mystery series has won fans and awards for his deft portrayal of richly developed characters, vivid descriptions of settings, multiple storylines, and unrelenting pace. Reviewers laud his philosophical insights that bring added depth to the stories and principal characters and his incorporation of indigenous cultural history.

Holing is also the author of two collections of short stories, California Works and Over Our Heads Under Our Feet. Many of the stories were previously published in literary journals and won awards, including the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Oregon and began his writing career as a freelancer. Assignments took him from Alaska to Zanzibar and his feature articles on adventure travel, conservation, natural history, and environmental issues appeared in Audubon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Outside, San Francisco Chronicle, Sierra, and Travel & Leisure, to name a few. He also wrote and edited books on those subjects. His publishers included Smithsonian Books, Time-Life, and Animal Planet.

Dwight Holing lives beside a coastal river in California with his wife and two dogs who’d rather swim than walk.
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Reviews

[Janice · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. I enjoy this series for the locations and the characters. Some magical realism is okay, but the part about the wild bighorn sheep at the end was too much for me.

[Lee Tyner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another good Nick Drake book. A little too much on the native spiritual stuff. The historical belief is fine but when it actually happens? Nah man. Also, one consistent problem by the author is having characters in dialogues that go on a bit, without identifying who said what. It was tough to tell at times, even when I traced back. Otherwise, 5 stars.

[Steve Payne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has quickly become a favorite series. I love all the characters and especially the Native American lore and customs that are a large part of the stories. Plenty of action and twists along the way.

[Rick Van · Rating 5 out of 5]

The sixth entry in Dwight Holing's Nick Drake series takes place four years after the conclusion of the previous book, The Nowhere Bones, but fans will be happy to learn that Nick hasn't lost a step in the interim. If anything, he's even more on his game in The Forever Feet as he seeks to solve two mysteries simultaneously, the murder of an old prospector (and his burro) and the deaths of several people involved in the production of a big-budget movie at a nearby cattle ranch. (Aside: The latter plot line bears an eerie, coincidental similarity to recent events involving actor Alec Baldwin.) Holing seamlessly weaves together the two plot lines with a healthy dose of Native American mysticism that had this reader doing a fist-pump and exclaiming "Yes!" at the story's climax. Dwight Holing has delivered another winner.