Satori Ranch edition by Mary Frisbee Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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A decrepit 1965 Volkswagen Microbus is discovered in a marijuana patch at Satori Ranch, an abandoned Oregon commune. Inside the bus are scattered human bones, determined by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department to be those of John and Mary Beth Brooke, who disappeared thirty years ago. Their daughter, painter and environmental activist Trout Brooke, is compelled to seek the cause of her hippie parents' deaths. As she digs into Satori Ranch’s history, it becomes clear that dark events led to the deaths, as well as the desertion of the lovingly-built homestead that had supported twenty people in supposedly idyllic counterculture style. As she travels to meet and question the Ranchers, now scattered across the country from Boston to Berkeley, Brook's determined search into the past results in danger to herself, with murder looming large as the explanation for the loss of her family. A murder mystery set partially in America’s ‘60s counterculture -- a rich and unsettled time in history -- Satori Ranch explores how parents’ past ideals can spill into their children’s present. Satori Ranch follows a strong lone woman pursuing answers about her past as she tracks down a murderer.
Satori Ranch edition by Mary Frisbee Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
If you don't remember the Sixties you may hit a speed bump in names - a protagonist named Trout Brooke, and her godfather, lawman Pencil Penman - but people of the counterculture really did give their children such names back in the day. In fact, such fanciful names are not uncommon. Today's celebrities give their children names such as Bear Blu (Alicia Silverstone) and Moroccan Scott (Mariah Carey).That aside, SATORI RANCH is an interesting first novel, giving us an in-depth look at life in a hippie commune. A cast of characters would have been helpful, and rapid scene changes sometimes caught me off guard, but those are minor nit-picks.
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When the call came from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department in Newport, Oregon, Brooke was sitting in her truck on Main Street in St. Maries, Idaho, staring up at the enormous fiberglass statue of Paul Bunyan that dominated the front lawn of the junior high school. ... A Deputy Frost called with the news. "Your parents' bodies have been found in an old VW Microbvus in a marijuana patch on an abandoned commune up the Yaquina River."
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Brooke's parents have been missing for 30 years. She doesn't even remember them. Nevertheless, she goes to Oregon to assist the sheriff in tying up loose ends of their deaths while they were members of a commune known as Satori Ranch. She finds the place still intact although mysteriously abandoned in 1976. Methodically she begins to search for any surviving members of the commune.
Brooke is an environmental activist "fixated on the truly horrible atrocities being perpetrated on Mother Earth." An artist, she paints stunning canvasses of toxic land sites. Before long her activities come to the attention of Ella Endicott, the wealthy sister of Gino Barbini, founder and owner of Satori Ranch. He has been missing since 1976 and his sister hires Brooke to investigate his disappearance. Brooke steps up her investigation, now on Mrs. Endicott's dime, going first class all the way, with money no object.
Brooke has talented and well-connected friends ready to drop everything and come to her aid at a moment's notice but she prefers to work alone; being strong and self-reliant leads her into a couple of foolhardy episodes. About halfway through, the story's focus shifts from Brooke's search for her parents' killer to the real identity of the woman who died with her father and the puzzle of Gino Barbini's disappearance.
The murders come down to the most common of motives: money and sex. The villain is dispatched in a harrowing scene with a clever twist, leading to a poignant but heart-warming ending.
The author is a professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa; her expertise is reflected in the occupations of three of her characters and she sees her settings through the eyes of an artist. The action moves through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Nebraska, New Mexico and Texas, with detailed and lush descriptions of each place. One line I especially liked was the author's description of a house in Santa Fe: "The traditional adobe house glowed the color of a lightly-grilled sockeye salmon ..."
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Satori Ranch edition by Mary Frisbee Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Satori Ranch is the perfect mystery novel for the intelligent reader. It was such a pleasure to find that this new author's main character, Trout Brooke, is a smart, funny, capable and compassionate woman. Kudos! The story line is well developed, and like all good mysteries, keeps the reader longing to find out what will happen next. Attention to small details enriches the story and builds interest in the places, events and characters that make this novel fun to read. The descriptions of place are especially noteworthy. If you want to feel like you've travelled without leaving the comfort of your reading chair, this novel is for you.
An up-tempo page-turner, SATORI RANCH is a cleverly written thriller that snags the reader with vivid and colorful prose, a tapestry of words layered densely to create a complex mystery. The writing is visual as one may expect after learning that the protagonist is a painter-turned sleuth whose observations are similar to those in her art practice. Her creative capabilities, however, go far beyond the canvas. Trout Brook, daughter of hippie parents who disappeared without a trace some thirty years ago, is a smart, strong, savvy, independent woman---the epitome of the contemporary woman. Frisbee paints the evolution of the generations as an easy slide from the hippie free-spirited, power-of-the- people 60s generation to today's environmentally conscious, technically plugged-in generation.
The plot moves along at a pace that keeps the reader engaged. There is a clever confluence of answers that arrives at the appropriate times, solving lingering questions that lurk throughout the mystery. Satori roughly translates into individual Enlightenment, or a flash of sudden awareness. Satori is intuitive experience and a feeling of infinite space. The relevance of this information is not lost on this mystery and its author as well as its readers. SATORI RANCH is a well-written tale of intrigue, murder, compassion, dedication, emotional fragility and vulnerability.
I actually enjoyed this book enough to give it five stars except for one thing. Frisbee depicted an evangelical Christian in such an obscenely negative manner that she has to be held accountable, for this is one factor involved in good and bad writing. I have been an evangelical for a very long time and have never known anyone like this. Having vented about that, I would encourage readers to cut Frisbee some slack on the matter, for everything else about the book was quite good. I thoroughly enjoyed reading lit.
First time author Mary Frisbee made a hit with me. I purchased Satori Ranch because I was intrigued by the story line, which resonated with me as a child of the 1960's. The setting, mostly in Oregon and Montana, took me back to my old stomping grounds. I pictured the scenery as it was described, and felt at home. The story moved along and pulled me in right away. The characters were well developed and I enjoyed the contrast between who they were in the 1960's and who they had become now. I also enjoyed traveling to the places where they live now along with the protaganist. The ending, with its surprise twist, was deeply satisfying to me. I'm a fan who will read all of Frisbee's books now that I've "tasted" the first one. Bravo to the author for a well-edited and enjoyable read.
If you don't remember the Sixties you may hit a speed bump in names - a protagonist named Trout Brooke, and her godfather, lawman Pencil Penman - but people of the counterculture really did give their children such names back in the day. In fact, such fanciful names are not uncommon. Today's celebrities give their children names such as Bear Blu (Alicia Silverstone) and Moroccan Scott (Mariah Carey).
That aside, SATORI RANCH is an interesting first novel, giving us an in-depth look at life in a hippie commune. A cast of characters would have been helpful, and rapid scene changes sometimes caught me off guard, but those are minor nit-picks.
Opening lines excerpt
(Quote)
When the call came from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department in Newport, Oregon, Brooke was sitting in her truck on Main Street in St. Maries, Idaho, staring up at the enormous fiberglass statue of Paul Bunyan that dominated the front lawn of the junior high school. ... A Deputy Frost called with the news. "Your parents' bodies have been found in an old VW Microbvus in a marijuana patch on an abandoned commune up the Yaquina River."
(End Quote)
Brooke's parents have been missing for 30 years. She doesn't even remember them. Nevertheless, she goes to Oregon to assist the sheriff in tying up loose ends of their deaths while they were members of a commune known as Satori Ranch. She finds the place still intact although mysteriously abandoned in 1976. Methodically she begins to search for any surviving members of the commune.
Brooke is an environmental activist "fixated on the truly horrible atrocities being perpetrated on Mother Earth." An artist, she paints stunning canvasses of toxic land sites. Before long her activities come to the attention of Ella Endicott, the wealthy sister of Gino Barbini, founder and owner of Satori Ranch. He has been missing since 1976 and his sister hires Brooke to investigate his disappearance. Brooke steps up her investigation, now on Mrs. Endicott's dime, going first class all the way, with money no object.
Brooke has talented and well-connected friends ready to drop everything and come to her aid at a moment's notice but she prefers to work alone; being strong and self-reliant leads her into a couple of foolhardy episodes. About halfway through, the story's focus shifts from Brooke's search for her parents' killer to the real identity of the woman who died with her father and the puzzle of Gino Barbini's disappearance.
The murders come down to the most common of motives money and sex. The villain is dispatched in a harrowing scene with a clever twist, leading to a poignant but heart-warming ending.
The author is a professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa; her expertise is reflected in the occupations of three of her characters and she sees her settings through the eyes of an artist. The action moves through Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Nebraska, New Mexico and Texas, with detailed and lush descriptions of each place. One line I especially liked was the author's description of a house in Santa Fe "The traditional adobe house glowed the color of a lightly-grilled sockeye salmon ..."
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