List your 10 current favorite authors..

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36. Little Star - Johnson has another one coming out in May,

As the Crow Flies, and I hope it's better than the last one. Up until I read Hell Is Empty, Craig Johnson was one of my most favorite authors. I liked the first half of the book and hated the last quarter.
I looked at Amazon to see what they had on the new one, and it sounds like it might be good - planning a wedding and Indian troubles.

I checked the reviews for Hell Is Empty, and it had 4 stars instead of his usual 5. One reviewer felt the same way as I, and I copied it:

3.0 stars. One long chase scene. I've been a fan of Johnson's earlier books in this series, but this one fell flat for me. It's high on Native American mysticism and low on plot. It is essentially not a mystery, but a lengthy chase scene, in which our hero encounters one force of nature after another--wild animals, snowstorm, fire, etc. After a short while, this gets old. Stylistically, the writing is...
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Published 4 months ago by Elizabeth S.

I agree. There was too little humor and too much nature.

Did you ever get around to reading the last one? What did you think?

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/J_Authors/Johnson_Craig.html