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At once stunningly gorgeous and violently brutal, this novel is unexpectedly evocative. The author‘s prose is quite poetic and eloquently portrays the desolate yet beautiful country of the Montana wilderness. I love the author‘s sure command of the written word, but you may want a dictionary handy. Even so, I loved this book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #pageonebooks

This was an entertaining read! Writing is very good, characters & setting well drawn, not everything spelled out or tied up neatly (happily). The vocab is a little pretentious & distracting, but maybe that's my defect, just seems unnecessary. It has a hint of Silence of the Lambs, but only due to circumstance. Could be a good movie! I'm anxiously awaiting Zupan's next book.

Seriously creepy & knife-in-gut start to this contemporary western yarn.

I napped this afternoon, so pizza and my new book for the evening.

Twice in the night they woke me and now they're at it again. I've got hand it to them though, they work tirelessly, and usually it's a thankless job. Even Costco has two on the go (other is left of frame)

Wow - this book is unsettling, dark, violent, and yet so beautifully written. The Ploughmen is set in the stark Montana landscape, and focuses on an unexpected relationship between Gload, a career criminal who has finally been arrested at age 77, and Millimaki, the sheriff tasked with watching Gload during the night shift at the county jail. Their unlikely bond grows over time, ultimately coming to a violent conclusion. The ending is perfection.

I'm really looking forward to each of these, all for completely different reasons.

I loved this book. It really isn't my type, but I'm so glad I read it. It's beautifully written, and manages to humanize a character often referred to as "the old killer". It isn't a thriller or a mystery - more like a character portrait of two men thrown together by circumstance.