Dark Reservations: A Mystery
Written by John Fortunato
Narrated by Peter Berkrot
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
"An insightful take on life in the Southwest." —Gene Hackman
Bureau of Indian Affairs special agent Joe Evers still mourns the death of his wife and, after a bungled investigation, faces a forced early retirement. What he needs is a new career, not another case. But when Congressman Arlen Edgerton's bullet-riddled Lincoln turns up on the Navajo reservation—twenty years after he disappeared during a corruption probe—Joe must resurrect his failing career to solve the mysterious cold case.
Joe partners with Navajo tribal officer Randall Bluehorse, his investigation antagonizes potential suspects, including a wealthy art collector, a former president of the Navajo Nation, a powerful U.S. senator, and Edgerton's widow, who is now the front-runner in the New Mexico governor's race. An unexpected romance further complicates both the investigation and Joe's troubled relationship with his daughter, forcing him to confront his emotional demons while on the trail of a ruthless killer.
Joe uncovers a murderous conspiracy that leads him from ancient Anasazi burial grounds on the Navajo Nation to backroom deals in Washington, D.C. Along the way, he delves into the dangerous world of black market trade in Native American artifacts. Can he unravel the mystery and bring the true criminal to justice, or will he become another silenced victim?
John Fortunato
JOHN FORTUNATO was a Captain in the U.S. Army, Military Intelligence, who served at the Pentagon during the early part of the Global War on Terrorism. He is now a Special Agent with the FBI and has earned an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. A native of Philadelphia, he currently lives in Michigan with his wife and three daughters. Dark Reservations is his first novel.
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Reviews for Dark Reservations
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5John Fortunato's Dark Reservations has good pacing, a solid mystery, and an evocative setting. Unfortunately, the book is The Joe Evers Show, and I never warmed up to the character. I found Joe to be whiny and mired in a pity party of "everyone's so mean to me." I did get tired of the squad's attitude toward him, but when I finally found out what Joe had done, I could understand why they felt the way they did. His alcoholism also seemed to be an on-again-off-again thing.Wanting to know the resolution of the mystery and being familiar with the setting are the two things that kept me reading Dark Reservations. I've enjoyed other books which had unlikeable characters, but Joe Evers was a bit more than I wanted to handle.