Murder on the Middle Fork

By Don Ian Smith and Naida West

Book Overview

Based on a true story--one of Idaho's strangest murders (1917). Frieda lives by the laws of the wilderness in primitive isolation with her husband--until she finds something more important than raw... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965348768
• ISBN13: 9780965348768
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Bridge House Books
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Read

This book kept me interested from page one, I loved this story it was gripping.

An engrossing and distinctive historical novel

I can heartily recommend Murder on the Middle Fork. It is an eminently readable, entertaining novel. Don Ian Smith and Naida West started with a locally notorious murder of 1917 (locally in Idaho), and worked back via a combination of primary sources (such as the coroner and the man who hauled the body to the family, as well as contemporary newspaper reports) and literary license (imagination and insight) to develop a story of how the murder happened -- motivation and circumstances. The characters, both real and fictitious, are well drawn, the dialogue effective (much use of dialect, but appropriate), and the story gripping. It is not so much history as such as it is fiction inspired by a real murder and drawing on the location and the culture and events of the time. I found it hard to put down.