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"The opening sentences of Tenuto's first mystery novel are a fluid and tempting lead into a book that is a unique blend of action, sport, suspense, and place. Hooked from the very first sentence, the reader is caught and held until the very end, and then carefully released--eager and ready to be hooked again for the next novel in the Dahlgren Wallace series."--"Foreword Magazine" "What a wonderful discovery: ex-Marine Force Recon turned fishing guide Dahlgren Wallace, characters you haven't seen before in a mystery but like or fear immediately, and a story as tight as light line with a lunker on. Throw in writing that flows as easily as the Montana rivers it is set against, and you have a keeper in Blood Atonement. But watch out for Jim Tenuto-he'll keep you up at night and laugh doing it."--Richard Barre, winner of the Shamus Award for Best First Novel, "The Innocents" "Jim Tenuto, a bold, confident author, has given us a first novel told with passion and wit and created a Montana peopled with characters who are strange but uncannily true."--Ken Kuhlken, author of "Tom Hickey" mysteries "Jim Tenuto deserves to hook a full string of fans with his debut novel, Blood Atonement. His novel is part mystery, part fishing guide, part commentary, and all fun. Nothing is more important to Montana river keeper Dahlgren Wallace than fly fishing, but he has to deal with such pesky things as a murder or two, a militia, a former Miss Utah, a billionaire boss, and the Feds. And did I forget to mention that Dahlgren manages to alienate not one, but two, religious communities? While Dahlgren only wants to fish, others want him to feed the fish. Don't let this one get away. Catch BloodAtonement and enjoy."--Alan Russell, winner of both The Critic's Choice and Lefty Awards, author of "Multiple Wounds" and "Political Suicide" "Jim Tenuto is Montana's answer to Carl Hiaasen. Blood Atonement dn0 is suspenseful and satirical and scary and laugh-out-loud funny, with a lot of good fly fishing as a bonus. I hope Dahlgren Wallace will be rowing driftboats and getting into trouble for many more novels."--William G. Tapply, author of "Bitch Creek" and "Pocket Water" "Jim Tenuto's novel is the first in what I hope will be a long series of Dahlgren Wallace mysteries. Tenuto has a clever, amusing style that entertains the reader even as he draws you deeper and deeper into the plot of the story . . . Tenuto shares his expertise in dry fly fishing and his extensive research in comparative religion and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints without preaching or talking down to his audience. In reading this book I learned a lot, I laughed a lot, and I enjoyed a pretty darn good mystery to boot. To quote his ranch owner Fred Lather, Tenuto gives his readers "The Royal $*#@ Treatment!"--"Shipmate," alumni magazine for the United States Naval Academy, "Tenuto succeeds in distinguishing his novel from the run-of-the-mill amateur-sleuth adventure by combining a full-bodied, multidimensional hero with a believable, detail-rich story. A strong debut that may make a fine series.""--Booklist """ "Blood Atonement is as crafty a piece of entertainment as anything I've read in a long while. It's imaginative, well plotted, cleverly structured, convincingly told, and enlivened by reference to some interesting and little-discussed events in the history of the American West. It's also quirky, irreverent, and populated by memorable characters who, in the tradition of this kind of novel, are a tad larger than life."--D.C. Ounty, "California Fly Fisher", "A quirky FBI agent and an avid angler from a Hutterite farming community show the author can create credible characters; hopefully, the sequel will contain more of them."-- Publishers Weekly "Hooking the reader as readily as his main character hooks a trout, the opening sentences of Tenuto's first mystery novel are a fluid and tempting lead into a book that is a unique blend of action, sport, suspense and place...The rich description invites readers to share the author's passion for fishing as well as a good mystery well-told. Hooked from the very first sentence, the reader is caught and held until the very end, and then carefully released - eager and ready to be hooked again for the next novel in the Dahlgren Wallace series."-- ForeWord magazine
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