Having been hooked by the new show based on the series on A&E, I jumped at a chance to try out the books themselves while on vacation recently. I liked that the characters were (for once, when reading a series on which a show or movie is based) immediately recognizable, only perhaps slightly more themselves, if that makes sense — all slightly flawed, but totally likable. “Death Without Company” delves into the mystery of what at first appears to be the completely ordinary death of the resident of a local nursing home. Johnson does a good job of setting the scene and slowly feeding you the pieces of back story that lead to the solution of not one but two murders–one decades old.
Five words that describe this book: descriptive, interesting, sucks you in
You might want to pick this book up if: You enjoy a good mystery or books that give a good slice-of-life picture of a different community/culture (in this case, small-town Wyoming).
-Katherine
