Basque moon : a Nellie Burns and Moonshine mystery

Nellie Burns, photographer, and her Labrador dog, Moonshine, travel with sheep rancher Gwynn Campbell and his Basque sheepherder to the Stanley Basin of central Idaho. Nellie plans to photograph scenes for a railroad s brochures to lure tourists to the West. When they arrive at the sheep camp, they discover the current herder is dead. Nellie s curiosity and photography lead her to a moonshine still and then a dash up a forested mountain. Nellie and Moonshine confront the greatest challenges yet to their courage and ingenuity when they face a range war and a ruthless killer. A story of western conflicts in the 1920s.

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Nellie Burns, photographer, and her Labrador dog, Moonshine, travel with sheep rancher Gwynn Campbell and his Basque sheepherder to the Stanley Basin of central Idaho. Nellie plans to photograph scenes for a railroad's brochures to lure tourists to the West. When they arrive at the sheep camp, they discover the current herder is dead.

Nellie's curiosity and photography lead her to a moonshine still and then a dash up a forested mountain. Nellie and Moonshine confront the greatest challenges yet to their courage and ingenuity when they face a range war and a ruthless killer.

Basque Moon is an exciting and authentic story of western conflicts in the 1920s. Nellie must dig deep to restore her faith in herself and her chosen profession.

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The rugged Stanley Basin of central Idaho is the star of Weston's disjointed, meandering second Nellie Burns and Moonshine mystery (after 2015's Moonshadows). In the summer of 1923, photographer Nellie Burns accepts an assignment to take scenic photos for railroad travel brochures. She arranges to spend several weeks operating out of a sheep camp deep in the mountains. But when she and her dog, Moonshine, arrive at the camp with the sheep rancher and relief sheepherder, they discover the shepherd on duty has been murdered. Nellie is caught in the middle of long-standing rivalries among sheep men and cattlemen, revenuers and moonshiners, and those promoting the region's burgeoning tourist industry. Weston does a good job evoking the wild beauty of Idaho's Sawtooth Range, and Nellie is a likable protagonist even though she is exasperatingly naive, jumping headlong into dangerous situations without considering the consequences. The ending offers a promising direction for subsequent installments. (Aug.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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