Gold Web: A Klondike Mystery
By Vicki Delany
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The fourth in Delany’s Klondike Mystery series is a madcap romp through the mud of 1898 Dawson City.
Book Four of the Klondike Mystery Series by Vicky Delany!
The year is 1898. The place is Dawson City, Yukon. A man staggers out of the dusk to collapse at the feet of a startled Fiona MacGillivray, shattering the peaceful calm of a warm July night. Before breathing his last, he gasps two words: "MacGillivray, Culloden." Fiona doesn’t know the man and she would prefer not to find out why he linked her name with the "bloodiest of all battles."
As international intrigue abounds and handsome Corporal Richard Sterling of the NWMP searches for the murderer, Fiona’s son Angus takes a job as a photographer’s assistant, a new dancer almost causes a riot, and Fiona tells herself she is not at all bothered by the amount of attention Richard Sterling is paying to the pretty and charming photographer, Miss Eleanor Jennings.
This is the latest installment of the Klondike Mysteries, starring Fiona MacGillvary. The first three books of the Klondike Mystery series are Gold Web, Gold Fever, and Gold Mountain.
Vicki Delany
Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the United States. She has written more than 30 books: from clever cozies to Gothic thrillers, gritty police procedurals to historical fiction and seven novellas in the Rapid Reads line. She writes the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, the Year Round Christmas mysteries and under the pen name of Eva Gates, the Lighthouse Library series. Vicki is the past president of Crime Writers of Canada. Her work has been nominated for the Derringer, Bony Blithe, Golden Oak, and Arthur Ellis Awards. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyable mystery, interesting history lesson and basically a fun read. Fiona is a single mother in the Yukon of 1898. A 12-year old boy, owning a saloon/dance hall, and trying to maintain a "proper" status in the rough and tumble world of the the Klondike gold rush is enough to keep her busy without a murdered man being found on her stage. The dead man has only been in town two/three days and already made a number of enemies and no one who met him seems to have liked him. Possible suspects are Fiona's business partner, her best dancer, and a good friend. Is one of them the killer, or someone else?
I liked this book and will read more of this author. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Newspaper reporter Jack Ireland managed to antagonize almost everyone in Dawson as soon as he hit town. Soon he ends up dead on the stage of the Savoy dance hall. It will take all of owner Fiona MacGillivray's savvy and charm to get to the bottom of the murder to prevent the loss of her business.The mystery wasn't too difficult to figure out, but there is so much more to this book than the mystery. Dawson and the Klondike gold rush come to life in the setting and characters. The perspective alternates between first and third person, and Delany gets Fiona's voice just right. Like Amelia Peabody, she is a force to be reckoned with, but with more personal charm and a somewhat disreputable past. Fiona's 12-year-old son, Angus, isn't as obnoxious as Amelia's Ramses, but he gets up to just as much mischief. This is a great series debut, and I'll definitely be reading the next book in the series.