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Dakota

#2 in series

by Martha Grimes
Renée Raudman
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In this stunning sequel to Grimes’s Biting the Moon, Andi Oliver, amnesiac and drifter, is still running from the memory–her only memory–of an occurrence in a Santa Fe bed-and-breakfast. Forced to invent details of her past as she manages to hang on to a precarious present (“Lying,” says one co-worker, “it’s what the girl does.”), Andi moves from one small-town job to another across Idaho, across Montana, and into North Dakota.
 
In Dakota she gets herself hired at Klavan’s, a massive pig farming facility that specializes in the dark art of modern livestock management. As Andi begins to uncover the truth about Klavan’s and its sister facility, Big Sun, a stranger out of her past, who has been stalking her for more than a year, appears at her door demanding information of which she has no memory.
 
DAKOTA signals the return of one of Martha Grimes’s most intrepid heroines, a young woman who invents her life step-by-step as she moves through a landscape that throws up one danger after another. Set against the breathtakingly expansive backdrop of the plains, DAKOTA will reward Grimes’s legion of fans, and fans of western literature as a whole.
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  • Creators

  • Series

    Andy Oliver

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 7, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415962534
      • File size: 401015 KB
      • Duration: 13:55:26

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 17, 2007
      Bestseller Grimes’s compelling second novel to feature the enigmatic young woman who calls herself Andi Oliver (after 1999’s Biting the Moon
      ) begins with Andi, who’s still unaware of her real name or her past, adrift in the Dakota badlands. After rescuing an abandoned donkey, Andi makes a temporary home for herself in the small town of Kingdom, where she soon creates a stir by standing up to some local bullies. She really begins to shake things up in the placid community, however, when she takes a job at a pig farm to try to save the cruelly treated animals bred there. After sneaking into the farm’s affiliated assembly-line slaughterhouse, Andi resolves to find a way, within the bounds of the law or not, to call to account the management of both places for violating humane animal treatment laws. While one late plot development stretches credibility, Grimes succeeds in sustaining suspense while graphically portraying the ugliness of animal abuse.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Grimes has a knack for creating engaging characters, and, not surprisingly, Andi Oliver is unique and likable, especially for his iron backbone and a deep affinity for animals. RenÄe Raudman superbly creates the perfect voice--calm and natural--to endear listeners to Andi even more. The story itself is a blatant exposÄ and indictment of the factory farm, the hog-raising industry, in this case. Raudman makes each character's voice distinctive and expertly modulates her tone and pitch to build tension and sustain suspense. She puts real feeling into the graphic descriptions of animal abuse as she effectively delivers this disturbing story. S.C.A. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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