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High Desert Malice

Kirk Mitchell

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High Desert Malice Kirk Mitchell “Well, this particular mystery takes place in the high desert of Nevada in an area of Nevada that was settled by Basque sheepherders probably beginning 100, 200 years ago as Europeans moved west; but it has always been a land where different people with different priorities have settled. So this is a novel, a mystery novel, about land and about its use and who decides who it is to be used. The main character is a Basque American law enforcement officer named Dee LeGuerre who understands the old timer Basque sheep farmers, but she's also a very modern woman with a career of her own. I had driven through Nevada a few years back and stopped and ate at a Basque restaurant, and I was — I really feel that this is a group of people that we really don't hear very much about. So I was interested in it from that point of view, a glimpse into the surviving Basque culture. He describes the desert very, very beautifully, so he has quite an aesthetic — skill at writing aesthetically as well as creating plots and characters. All of his novels are — show people in some cases at their worst; and there is serious violence in his novels, and that sometimes is a little hard to read through. I would give it a four for me, anywhere from a three to a five depending on who the reader is.”