Coeur d'Alene Waters eBook Ned Hayes
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COEUR D'ALENE, IDAHO, is where people go to hide. Neo-Nazis. Corrupt politicians. Mining men with buried secrets.
In 1972, ninety-one men were killed in a mining "accident" sparked by a fire lit nearly a mile underground the mystery was never solved. After the rest escaped, only three miners survived underground.
More than twenty years later, Matt Worthson is a sheriff's lieutenant and the disgraced son of mining hero and Sunshine Mine survivor Stanley Worthson. Matt expects to finish out his years on the force in quiet ignominy. But when the gruesomely dismembered body of a police chaplain is found at the swanky Coeur d'Alene Resort, Matt is tapped to find the murderer.
As Matt investigates the murder of his friend, he finds himself digging deep into the labyrinth of lies that seeps beneath the Coeur d'Alene region, including the Sunshine Mine disaster.
Matt now has a chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him, and the darker truths in his father's past. A neo-Nazi kid holds the only key. If Matt can find a way through the kid's bravado, he might just uncover the truth behind his own broken family.
Complex, richly atmospheric, and utterly convincing in its portrayal of the Pacific Northwest, Coeur d'Alene Waters will enthrall fans of Mystic River and Snow Falling on Cedars.
Coeur d'Alene Waters eBook Ned Hayes
Couer d'Alene Waters is a murder mystery that rises above the genre with language that is simultaneously lyrical and hard-nosed. Ned Hayes kicks off his historical mystery with: "The girl felt hope leave her as the road went dark. Night lapped across the valley and seeped over the mountains, an approaching tide. She turned her head and saw a light far away on the hill. Even as she looked, it faded into the depths. The darkness would swallow her."Ahead of the car were only acres of water, an emptiness that roiled slowly against the forest and the mountains. She rolled the syllables around in her mouth, a name her father had taught her: Lake Coeur d'Alene. Her father was gone."
The bleakness, the cold, and the poetic alliteration of "roiled" and "rolled" set the tone for an engaging story as this beginning quickly leads to a gruesome murder scene.
The lead investigator in the case is Matt Worthson, a recovering alcoholic and a man with a past on the outs with most of his fellow officers. They think he's screwing up the investigation and covering for his buddy, Russ, who is running for sheriff.
The story is infuriatingly slow to unfold, and there are many threads that seem unrelated at first - repeated scenes of a little girl being (possibly?) kidnapped, memories of a long-ago mining disaster in which Matt's father saved the lives of hundreds of trapped miners, political intrigues, the death of a woman named Irene who may or may not have been having an affair with Matt. Eventually these threads do come together satisfactorily.
I offer up two sentences which stand as examples of Hayes' mastery of language:
"Dust rose in a cloud around the truck, it was as if the entire hillside was covered in loose dry dirt. Shapes emerged through the brown fog, things beside the road. In every direction, seemingly random flotsam - broken metal steps, engine flywheels, fenders, cracked steel beams - was joined together in a grotesque mockery of life. Massive figures with eyes made of hubcaps, fantastical twisted flowers, towers as tall as an upended truck. Around the feet of the things, the grass was trimmed, as if they grazed at night."
And "Matt stepped out of the car and motioned Jerry to do the same. All around them stood huge metal things, some with grasping hands, others with horns or antennae, some with oversized flat large feet, like sentinels all across the lawn. Slicked with a thin sheen of the ever-present dust, a gray-haired man squatted in front of the tilted machine shed."
I wish some of the characters were more fully developed, especially Matt's wife and son, but others, particularly a skinhead kid named Kevin, are beautifully brought to life.
This work of literary fiction has the tautness and complexity of the best of crime dramas.
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Coeur d'Alene Waters eBook Ned Hayes Reviews
This is a complex novel that really absorbed me until the end. The story takes place in and about Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. A rustic, rugged landscape of timber and mines. Like the land, the characters in this story are also rugged -- each and every one of them having ultimate goals and remorse. The main character, Matt Worthson, sits at Albi's Bar and Grill. Trying to overcome his taste for hard liquor, he orders coffee. He's carrying a load of guilt, and his recent sharing experience with 'Father' Arlen, a local minister serving the police department when the need arises, seems to somewhat take the load off his back. Matt is a lieutenant for the Bitterroot County Sheriff's Department. He's on duty and as he steps into his old truck, Sheriff Merrill radios him to report to a crime scene at the Coeur D'Alene Resort -- where a dismembered body has been found in the restroom. Scattered over three stalls of the men's room was the mutilated body of 'Father' Arlen Bowman. There are many characters in this novel, including Kev Macht, a young man who has walked away from the Aryan Nations at nearby Hayden Lake. He also has a load of loathing he packs around with him, but is he really capable of killing Arlen? As in many small communities, there are political games played not only between the Resort owners and town officials, but also within the sheriff's department. Regardless, even as Matt's sheriff thinks he is incapable of handling the investigation of this murder, he does slowly make progress. But along his path is much chaos and finger pointing. This novel is also a psychological thriller. At times it appears as a jigsaw puzzle, with pieces missing. But, I couldn't put this story down until I found those missing pieces. Highly recommend this extraordinary, in depth, thriller.
Ned Hayes seems to establish a new writing voice with each book he writes, so I was keen to see how the first novel stacked up to his more recent work. Its set in an area I remember fondly from my childhood and the characters are all easily recognizable... but not the secrets they carry. The book is an intimate revelation of the results of dark secrets carried by family members and how the strain of keeping them affects those you love. It is also a brilliant expose of how a small-town can be controlled and degraded by corporate interests and corruption. I remember the palpable clout of the mining interest even as a child. I would recommend this to anyone with an interest in the Mountain States, or in the effects of keeping the truth buried.
Couer d'Alene Waters is a murder mystery that rises above the genre with language that is simultaneously lyrical and hard-nosed. Ned Hayes kicks off his historical mystery with "The girl felt hope leave her as the road went dark. Night lapped across the valley and seeped over the mountains, an approaching tide. She turned her head and saw a light far away on the hill. Even as she looked, it faded into the depths. The darkness would swallow her.
"Ahead of the car were only acres of water, an emptiness that roiled slowly against the forest and the mountains. She rolled the syllables around in her mouth, a name her father had taught her Lake Coeur d'Alene. Her father was gone."
The bleakness, the cold, and the poetic alliteration of "roiled" and "rolled" set the tone for an engaging story as this beginning quickly leads to a gruesome murder scene.
The lead investigator in the case is Matt Worthson, a recovering alcoholic and a man with a past on the outs with most of his fellow officers. They think he's screwing up the investigation and covering for his buddy, Russ, who is running for sheriff.
The story is infuriatingly slow to unfold, and there are many threads that seem unrelated at first - repeated scenes of a little girl being (possibly?) kidnapped, memories of a long-ago mining disaster in which Matt's father saved the lives of hundreds of trapped miners, political intrigues, the death of a woman named Irene who may or may not have been having an affair with Matt. Eventually these threads do come together satisfactorily.
I offer up two sentences which stand as examples of Hayes' mastery of language
"Dust rose in a cloud around the truck, it was as if the entire hillside was covered in loose dry dirt. Shapes emerged through the brown fog, things beside the road. In every direction, seemingly random flotsam - broken metal steps, engine flywheels, fenders, cracked steel beams - was joined together in a grotesque mockery of life. Massive figures with eyes made of hubcaps, fantastical twisted flowers, towers as tall as an upended truck. Around the feet of the things, the grass was trimmed, as if they grazed at night."
And "Matt stepped out of the car and motioned Jerry to do the same. All around them stood huge metal things, some with grasping hands, others with horns or antennae, some with oversized flat large feet, like sentinels all across the lawn. Slicked with a thin sheen of the ever-present dust, a gray-haired man squatted in front of the tilted machine shed."
I wish some of the characters were more fully developed, especially Matt's wife and son, but others, particularly a skinhead kid named Kevin, are beautifully brought to life.
This work of literary fiction has the tautness and complexity of the best of crime dramas.
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