Swan Peak: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee BurkeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
JLB has moved to Missoula, Mt permanently but used to move to New Iberia in the winter. This is the first book in the series in which the setting is the high mountains near the Montana-Idaho border. The descriptions of Montana are as detailed as his Louisiana details and the characters are as well drawn, though they lack the familiarity with which he is able to speak of the New Iberian natives. Still, these characters are three dimensional and his chief baddie is a Louisiana transplant.
No matter where he and Clete Purcell go there are always jams for them to get into and it is no different here in the Swan Valley. They are spending the summer at a friend's ranch with Molly and intending to fish all vacation. The murder of a young college boy on the mountain overlooking the ranch manages to throw a monkey wrench into their copacetic plans. Purcell, as usual, finds himself involved with not one but two women, whom he'd be better off ignoring. His relationships as always get him and Dave in trouble and mess up the investigation of this and several other seemingly unrelated murders
With all kinds of miscreants interacting with each other or trying to avoid each other the plot thickens and ends with a open pit, several armed men and several others on the edge without weapons or escape. Or so it would seem.
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