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Title: Butterfly Lost by David Cole ISBN: 0-06-101394-3 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Treading the borderlands
Comment: David Cole breaks with the mold in this fascinating first mystery. It includes a dark, unromantic, and completely unexpected view of the contemporary American Southwest. Where else could you find a central character who is a half-Hopi, Ritalin abusing, computer hacker, living on the run while battling the demons behind her own anxiety disorder. Laura inhabits social, psychological, and geographic borderlands, where the reader learns to appreciate and ponder the ambiguities of Native/non-Native identity, the ties and terrors of personal commitments, and the seedy backstreet life of the US/Mexican border region. The author manages to evoke complex worlds of sense and character with an economy of verbiage, and had me puzzling over the mystery and its personalities at odd moments during the day until I had finished it. Butterfly Lost is also an unusual mystery in that the pieces never all fit back together -- the bodies are not necessarily found and accounted for, there is unfinished business -- this feels disturbingly like reality, rather than a typical work of fiction. I am looking forward to his next book, while bracing for another wild ride.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Dawn of a Great Career
Comment: One of my proudest moments as a mystery writer came at Tucson's Left Coast Crime mystery convention when I was given the honor of introducing David Cole to the mystery community. He was a member of the author panel I was moderating, and his debut mystery, BUTTERFLY LOST, had just been published. BUTTERFLY LOST features Laura Winslow--a Ritalin-abusing, cyper-hacking, half-Hopi--protagonist. BUTTERFLY LOST is a remarkable book because, at least to this reader, David Cole gets everything right. His work with Native American groups has provided him with the thorough cultural knowledge he presents in his book. Laura's computer expertise is completely convincing. David Cole knows well of what he writes. His plot is fast-paced and complex. He knows the Southwestern turf well. I cannot remember reading a more impressive debut novel. David Cole is an amazing talent.
Rating: 5
Summary: A captivating web of deception and intrigue
Comment: David Cole's Butterfly Lost is an interesting, very well-written, novel about how the main character, Laura Winslow, navigates the vagaries of where life on and off the 'Rez' meet. A half-Hopi cyber hacker, Winslow uses a combination of modern computer skills and knowledge of ancient traditions to track the disappearance of a Hopi teenage girl. David Cole's use of rich and authentic detail weaves an intricate web of deception and intrigue that is enhanced with each succeeding chapter. Butterfly Lost captures and holds the attention of the reader through the last page. I highly recommend the book to anyone who enjoys a good mystery of any stripe. It is an especially good find for those who like novels about the southwest and Native American culture. I look forward to reading David Cole's next book, The Killing Maze.
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Title: The Killing Maze by David Cole ISBN: 0061013951 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Scorpion Rain by David Cole ISBN: 0380819716 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Stalking Moon by David Cole ISBN: 0380819708 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Last Song Dogs by Sinclair Browning ISBN: 0553579401 Publisher: Crime Line Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Rode Hard, Put Away Dead by Sinclair Browning ISBN: 0553583271 Publisher: Crime Line Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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