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- Sales Rank: #1184216 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-08-06
- Released on: 2013-08-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Virgil Cain, the upstate New York horse farmer with a nose for trouble, sniffs his way into another jam. The movies have come to the country, and one of the producers hires Bob and Nelly, Virgil’s draft horses, for a few days work at $500 a day. Planning only to provide transportation for his starlets, Virgil is drawn into the production when it turns out the actor set to drive the buckboard is afraid of horses. OK, it’s easy money—until the lead actress is murdered, and the production is imperiled on all fronts. Virgil’s lover, police detective Claire, is investigating the crime, but Virgil stays on the periphery, nosing about and managing to irritate most of the movie types, except for 10-year-old actress Georgia, who likes feeding apples to the horses. When Georgia is kidnapped by the killer, it’s time for Virgil to ride to the rescue. The movie angle proves a bit predictable, but Virgil remains a thoroughly charming hero in the self-reliant, bantering Elmore Leonard mold, and Smith can spin even a tired premise into genuinely entertaining fiction. --Bill Ott
Review
“Brad Smith has got the goods—he’s funny, poignant, evocative, and he tells a blistering tale. A writer to watch, a comet on the horizon.” (Dennis Lehane)
“Smith has written tight, fast-paced novels his entire career…and reading one is like riding a thoroughbred.” (The Chronicle Herald)
"Brad Smith combines smooth writing with a twisted mind to give readers Carl Hiassen humor, but with horses instead of gators." (Julie Kramer, author of Shunning Sarah)
“Stellar…Wonderfully wrought characters, delicious wit, and droll storytelling make [Shoot the Dog] a delightful romp.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))
About the Author
Brad Smith was born and raised in southern Ontario. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and carpenter. He lives in an eighty-year-old farmhouse near the north shore of Lake Erie. Red Means Run, the first novel in his Virgil Cain series, was named among the Year’s Best Crime Novels by Booklist.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The Rugged Southwest
By Robert Downs
I like the rugged Southwest--New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona. Heck, even the Midwest doesn't sound all that bad. And I like movies even more than I should. But I didn't like this novel. Getting a behind the scenes peek at directors and producers and actors and actresses and funding shortfalls and casting decisions should have been one of the greatest days of my life. Instead, I felt like I'd been jarred off my horse and did a face plant in the dirt.
Even though SHOOT THE DOG is set in upstate New York, it had a western feel to it. Maybe because the movie Frontier Woman is a period piece, set in the 1840s, with bonnets and barns and horses and schoolgirls in pigtails and muskets and men who take about five minutes to say about six words of interest. And that was my first major problem with this novel: the dialogue. There were times and lines that clicked faster than a ballpoint pen and were as smooth as a cowboy hat. But other times the dialogue felt more like a monologue and resembled a transcript of two people talking in an Arizona diner, where additional words and phrases weighed down the potential for a punch and crisp exchange.
I understand this is supposed to be a slow-moving mystery (the equivalent of a man's cozy), but whenever I start checking page numbers, or in the case of my Kindle, checking my location or completion percentage, because there's been no dead body, or even a strong conflict, then I start to get a little concerned, and the first question is inevitably: Is this really a mystery? Not what I'd like to be thinking about, thank you very much. So when did the dead body show up? At 32% (or around page 102 for those who prefer the more traditional reading method), and I'd started to get a little nervous. Not the palm sweating kind, but enough that I actually made a notation for the purposes of reviewing later.
I must say the movie industry has lost a little of its allure after reading this novel. Not to the point that I'm turned off, mind you, but I have a heightened awareness that wasn't really there before. I equate it to my Cedar Point experience. Once I peeled back the silver curtain, I've never really looked at an amusement park the same way again. Sometimes it's better to be completely oblivious and just focus on rainbows and trees and sunshine and candy bars.
The movie industry is chock full of sleazy and nefarious individuals (reminds me of Congress in that regard). There's a spineless butthead director who goes by the name Robb Fetterman; a producer who accentuates her assets to secure a movie's future, who goes by the name Sam Sawchuck; producers with loud mouths and curious infatuations and sketchy pasts and have extremely high opinions of themselves, who go by the names Ronnie Red Hawk and Levi Brown; and a tabloid actress named Kari Karson who may, or may not, be a nymphomaniac. So, in other words, there's something for everyone.
On a positive note, though, my favorite characters were a horse named Bob, who hammed it up for the cameras whenever the opportunity presented itself; Virgil Cain, one of those strong, silent types; Georgia Lee Thompson, a ten year-old precocious actress; and Nikki, the movie caterer who was completely oblivious to her beauty.
I have two words for Brad Smith: more Bob.
I received this book for free through NetGalley.
Robert Downs
Author of Falling Immortality: Casey Holden, Private Investigator
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Loved it (and Virgil)
By Luanne Ollivier
Brad Smith returns with the third entry in his Virgil Cain series - Shoot the Dog.
Virgil is again just minding his own business, plowing the back forty with a pair of Percherons when some movie folks scouting for locations pull up and offer to rent the horses for their 'Frontier Woman' movie. Well, the taxes are coming due and the soybean crop failed last year, so yeah, Virgil could use the money. But those movie folks are quick to talk and slow to listen. They assume Virgil is the 'half-wit dullard hired hand' that works for Mr. Cain - and he lets them think it. Virgil on the other hand is slow to talk and quick to listen.
There's lots of set up before we even get to the crime, but oh can Smith spin a tale. His tongue in cheek take on the movie industry and celebrity is hilarious. The dialogue, conniving and back stabbing amongst the group is priceless. But when the leading lady ends up dead, Virgil can't help himself. He decides to be on set a little more - he's taken a shine to ten year old actor Georgia - and besides, she likes his horses.
"'So do you follow it, or does it follow you?' Buddy asked.
What?
Trouble.
Virgil smiled and finished the beer."
Virgil is such a great character, from his droll dialogue, the way he thinks, his unerring sense of right and wrong and his decision to act on his principles. A white knight with manure on his workboots.
I love the laid back interactions between Virgil and his lover Detective Claire Marchand. (And I have to admit I'm a little jealous of Claire - Virgil is that laid back, quiet type that is oh appealing.) Claire on her own is just as great a character as Virgil - she's got a great mind and a sharp tongue - her dialogue with suspects cuts like a knife. These characters will appeal to readers of both sexes.
The goal of course it to solve who killed that leading lady, but the whodunnit in Shoot the Dog takes a backseat to the characters. And I wouldn't want it any other way.
Shoot the Dog is another entertaining romp of a read from Brad Smith. Smith has a sly, wry sense of humour that I truly enjoy. Do yourself a favour, pull up a chair on the porch, grab a beer and start from the first book - Red Means Run. You'll be hooked - on Brad Smith, not the beer.
Readers who enjoy Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey's tongue in cheek mysteries will enjoy Brad Smith.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
exciting whodunit
By A Customer
Shoot The Dog
Brad Smith
Scribner, Aug 6, 2013, $22.00
ISBN: 9781439197561
In the Woodstock area of Upstate New York, farmer Virgil Cain breaks in his two new Percheron plow horses Bob and Nelly. At the same time at the bistro in Woodstock, actress Olivia Burns meets with producer Sam Sawchuck to discuss the filming of Frontier Woman in which the former will play the lead. Sam explains her second choice as director Robb Fetterman will make the movie for her and her husband Levi Brown.
The producers hire Ben and Nelly at $500 a day; but though he needs the cash Virgil soon regrets his decision as the crew makes the money not worth his time while local casino owner Ronnie Red Hawk invests in the movie. When someone murders Olivia, Virgil's lover police officer Claire Marchand investigates; but the killer has a second act starring the farmer and tweener child star Georgia.
The latest Virgil Cain mystery (see Red Means Run and Crow's Landing) is an exciting whodunit in which overall the locals and Georgia are good people; while Hollywood (too sleazy) and Ronnie are amoral slugs. The leisurely-paced storyline is fun to read as the Gary Cooper hero learns that WC Fields was right to "never work with animals or children" since Bob and Georgia steal the show.
Harriet Klausner
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