The Girl With The Flamenco Tattoo was a very interesting and intriguing story.

The Synopsis of the story: She is only known as the girl with the Flamenco Tattoo, and she is very dead.
Who is she, where’d she come from, and how did she end up fully clothed on the shore of a mountain lake? Such are the questions that a small town sheriff with higher aspirations must try and solve when he has no experience whatsoever with murder or anything close to it. And yet if his political dreams are to be realized, he must solve the crime that has a ripple effect on a whole lot of locals. As with any town, large or small, there are people with dark secrets including everything from a coroner with a former drug habit, to a cop who once shot a girl, and a wife’s dalliances and the town’s most powerful man who would like the whole investigation to go away..

Quite enjoyable and highly recommend.

I'm not always a fan of changing the perspective in every chapter in a book, but here it actually works. The murder investigation is not very fast paced, and most of the book is kind of a Montana soap opera. However, it's well written, and makes for good entertainment.

I enjoyed the book and really liked it. Waiting to hear more from the author. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the arc.

Garrett Sublette, a Federal Marshal on leave after being shot, is home again in Big Falls, Montana, where his father lives. They haven't been close in many years, and this visit is long overdue.

Garrett hits town just after the body of a young girl is found on the banks of a lake. She has a tattoo on her lower back. But who is she? Where did she come from? Who would want her dead?

Working with the local sheriff, Garrett finds that the town itself seems to have secrets ... secrets that not everybody want exposed.

Suspects are plentiful and Garrett will have to dig deep to root out the truth. There are many who may want this investigation to go away .... a fellow cop who has killed before .... the coroner who may or may not still be a drug addict ... the town's best known influential man ... a woman who has a husband ... and a boyfriend or two on the side.

This was a slow starter for me, but i started picking up pace and I found myself unable to stop reading. Some of the characters are bigger than life and some are lower than pond scum. I especially liked the relationship of Garrett and his father. Not always close, they both seem to want to make it better. I liked Garrett's back story ... how he came to be shot and how that changed him. All in all, a well written mystery featured in the Big Sky Country.

Many thanks to the author / Encircle Publications LLC / Netgalley for the digital copy of this crime fiction. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

I really didn't want this story to end. I don't know who I loved more...J.W. Sublette or Bill Brooks for creating him!

Somewhere west of Richard Russo's character, Sully and James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux lies J.W. Sublette, west as in Montana, to be precise.

Written in chapters named for the main characters, this story shifts back and forth between them, filling in the blanks from different individual perspectives. This is really Garrett Sublette's story though. A Federal Marshal on mandatory leave after a fatal shooting, Garrett heads home to Big Falls for a long overdue visit with his dad, JW. He arrives shortly after the body of a teenage girl is found, a girl with a flamenco dancer tattoo.

Brooks' writing reminds me of Cormac McCarthy's work, not the character development or the gory side, but the lyrical language he uses brings McCarthy to mind.

I love this book and although this is a different genre for Brooks, I plan on reading some of his other work.

Thank you SO much to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this title!

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