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Dreadfulwater Shows Up
Dreadfulwater Shows Up | Hartley Goodweather
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From award-winning literary author Thomas King (aka Hartley GoodWeather) comes a stylish mystery debut featuring ex-California cop Thumps DreadfulWater, a smart and savvy Cherokee Indian whose witty exterior belies a clever, stubborn sleuth. With his cop life officially behind him, Thumps now makes his living as a fine-arts photographer in Chinook -- a western town snuggled up against a reservation that's struggling for economic independence via investment in a glitzy new resort and casino complex called Buffalo Mountain. It's a slow-paced, good life for Thumps and his eccentric cat, Freeway. Most of the time. But when a dead body turns up in one of the just-completed luxury condos, things change fast -- and not for the better. Photographing corpses is not part of Thumps's master plan. He can't help getting involved, especially when he realizes that the number one suspect is Stanley "Stick" Merchant, anticondo protestor and wayward son of Claire Merchant, head of the tribal council and Thumps's onetime love. If it affects Claire, it affects Thumps. It seems that Stick disappeared just about the time of the murder. Coincidence? Or just bad timing? Thumps knows that the police often shoot smart-ass teenagers first and ask questions later. He doesn't want that to happen to Stick. But can Thumps find Stick in time? And can Thumps find a killer before a killer finds Thumps? "DreadfulWater Shows Up" marks the arrival of a detective with a difference. With energy and verve and a very special voice, Thomas King and Hartley GoodWeather create an engaging and original page-turner that zings with memorable characters and biting social commentary.
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rabbitprincess
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A great start to this series, of which I read the 4th book first 😂 It was published in 2002, so the technology bits feel pretty outdated, but the characters are good. I‘ve requested the second book in the series.

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#SundayFunday
1️⃣ Tagged is the first book I will start this year (once I get off Litsy haha)
2️⃣ This year I am really looking forward to reading stories with my nephew, who is four months old today 🥰
3️⃣ My bookish resolution is to keep reading what I want to read and use reading challenges as inspirations rather than requirements

Crazeedi Number 3 is just what I need to do, instead of always feeling disappointed in myself 3y
squirrelbrain Number 3 is such a good idea! 3y
BookmarkTavern I love reading stories to my nibling! That‘s going to be so fun for you! Thank you for posting! 3y
rabbitprincess @Crazeedi ♥️ Reading should be fun, and if a reading challenge is not making it fun, time to ditch the challenge! @squirrelbrain I admin a group on LibraryThing where we set up a variety of year-long challenges with monthly themes, and I‘ll cheerfully read an October book in January if that‘s what I want 😂 @ozma.of.oz Between me and his great-aunt (a retired librarian), he will never lack a reading buddy 😂 3y
Crazeedi @rabbitprincess you are so right!! 3y
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mcctrish
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I read this in a day ❤️ I just wish I had gotten all of the Thumps DreadfulWater mysteries out of the library so I could just binge them all

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Suspense and mystery stack from the library so I‘m going to put “Gentleman in Moscow “ down and start Dreadful Water in honour of TIFF (Toronto Film Festival) starting and Thomas King‘s Inconvenient Indian is premiering. A HUGE positive of Covid is movies are streaming on line 🎉so I don‘t have to be in Toronto to go to TIFF.

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xicanti
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I had a great time getting to know Thumps DreadfulWater, a cop-turned-photographer who can't turn off his investigative instincts. He heads up a cast packed with tribal leaders, teenage protesters, real estate agents, coroners, bookstore owners, current cops, and security guards, all of whom are so intriguing that the murder mystery is really just a bonus. I'll look forward to my next outing with them.

xicanti Also of note: this book is set in the US, somewhere within driving distance of Kalispell, MT, but King layers on the Canadiana. It's the little things, like how people go off to university instead of college, or how the residents of Chinook eat at Tim Horton's a good ten years before the company expanded into the US. I've gotta think he's making a point about one of my least favourite trends in Canadian commercial fiction, and I approve. 6y
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xicanti
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Crime fiction + sorta-poutine (cheese curds are expensive so I used regular cheese).

CSeydel Don‘t tell anyone but I use chopped up mozzarella sticks in place of cheese curds 😳 6y
CSeydel Oh hey I have you to thank for this - my husband ordered me a pack of Swiss Chalet sauce packets for my birthday 😂 I‘ve been out of town since then but I can‘t wait to try it!!! 6y
Quirkybookworm Ok I love to cook and I‘ve never heard of cheese curds before. Mind explaining the difference besides the cost ? Thanks! @xicanti (edited) 6y
xicanti @CSeydel go, husband! I hope you're able to WALLOW IN CHALET SAUCE good and soon! 6y
xicanti @Quirkybookworm they're chunks of cheese made by curdling milk; sort of like cottage cheese, but each piece is much larger and firmer. They generally squeak when you bite into them. Here in Canada we either snack on them or put them on dishes like poutine (fries topped with cheese curds and gravy), while lots of Americans deep fry them. They don't squeak so well when you do that, but they taste so good it doesn't matter. 6y
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Dreadfulwater Shows Up | Hartley Goodweather
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A great whodunit with a firm tongue-in-cheek touch. First book I finished for @DeweysReadathon! #Readathon #DiverseDetectives

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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"Clarence Fellows was Sterling's nephew, a young, muscular man just out of community college who thought of himself as a sports car. Especially when it came to women. When it came to work, however, Clarence was more an old bus with four flat tires and a dead battery." #DiverseDetectives
Thomas King kills me every time.

Bibliogeekery Best! 8y
mcctrish I read DreadfulWater in one day!!! I want to inhale the whole series 4y
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