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Hello, Stranger (Mustang Sally Mysteries) Kindle Edition

by Virginia Swift (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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There's an unpleasant surprise waiting outside Wyoming college professor Sally Alder's office on a cold blustery afternoon: a female student, Charlie Preston, recently and brutally battered. Since Charlie refuses to call the cops, tell her family, or see a doctor, Sally has no other recourse but to give the damaged girl the coat off her back, the cash in her wallet, and to wish her good luck.

But two weeks after Charlie vanishes, the body of her estranged father is found, beaten to death in an alley. Now Sally is racing to find the missing girl before the police do, since she's far less convinced of Charlie's guilt than they are. And a killer may be hiding in a maze of lethal secrets and dark passions, preparing to inflict a terrible punishment on a frightened young woman . . . and perhaps on her overly inquisitive teacher as well.

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    Mustang Sally Mysteries
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    October 18, 2011
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Swift's fourth Mustang Sally mystery (after 2004's Bye, Bye Love) sizzles with partisan politics, sexual attraction and murder. Sally Alder, a University of Wyoming women's studies professor, is shaken to learn that one of her female students, Charlie Preston, has been beaten up. Though Sally's unsure who's responsible, she knows that Charlie's dad, Brad Preston, has roughed up Charlie in the past. After coming to Sally for help, the girl disappears—and a few weeks later, papa Preston is found bludgeoned to death. Who killed Brad? Was it Charlie, or her boyfriend, out for revenge? Was it a local Democratic activist, horrified by the prospect that Brad—a right-wing zealot—planned to run for Congress? Also interested in the case is Dave Haggerty, a handsome single attorney, who's captivated by Sally. Despite her long-standing relationship with hunky Hawk Green, Sally finds herself enjoying Dave's attentions. Clearing Charlie's name, it turns out, will cause Sally to endanger her relationship with Hawk—and her life. This engrossing novel should win new readers to Swift's series. (Mar.)
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About the Author

Virginia Swift teaches history at the University of New Mexico. She also writes nonfiction under the name of Virginia Scharff. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005O078YM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper (October 18, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 18, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.7 MB
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  • avoraciousreader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the series (thus far) 5*
    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2008
    Hello, Stranger
    Virginia Swift [Virginia Scharff], 2006.

    I read the first "Mustang" Sally Alder mystery, "Brown Eyed Girl", a few years ago, then recently re-read it and the next two, "Bad Company" and "Bye, Bye, Love", and had feared that the series was getting stale and repetitive. As with most series, there was a recurring cast of characters ... but unlike most, they were pretty much the same from the git-go, ex-boyfriend Hawk, the Langham family (sherrif Dickie and feisty, foul-mouthed barkeep Delice, wheeler dealer and band leader Dwayne), gay restaurateurs Burt and John-Boy, Maude Stark. No gradual accreting adventure by adventure as with, say, the Spenser series. And most of the standard cast hark back to Sally's whoopin' days in Laramie in the seventies, a period which is referenced ad nauseam, or at least ad boredom.

    But "Hello, Stranger" is a delightful fresh start. The cast -- and not all of the cast, Dwayne for one being only tangentially mentioned -- are brought in primarily when they play an actual role, Dickie as Sheriff, for instance, or Maude protecting a clinic at an anti-abortion demonstration. [Unlike reviewer "amimo", I'm grateful for this whittling down of the old crowd ;-] Sally has settled firmly into her relationship with Hawk. The Old Days are referenced, but no longer such a focus. Also, Swift/Scharff's writing has tuned up a notch, with a fair number of memorable images and phrases. For instance (p. 71 of the hardcover), "She didn't feel like [productive work], so she took the slacker's way out. She decided to check her email."

    The plot, also, seems more compelling. Just as Sally is meditating on how her feminism 101 lectures seem to fall on comatose ears, she's visited by a student who's been missing from class lately, Charlie [Charlotte] Preston, horribly beaten but refusing to see the police or hospital, only begging for money to make her getaway. Reluctantly, Sally empties her wallet and literally gives Charlie the coat off her back. Obsessed with Charlie's predicament, Sally delves deeper and uncovers a disturbing but vague history of abuse and mental problems, a powerful lawyer of a father and right-wing preacher of a step-mother. The plot deepens to include Charlie's seeming sleazebag of a boyfriend, low rent party dens, the Laramie real estate market ... and, oh yes, Sally stumbles across the corpse of Charlie's father, "Bad Brad" Preston and Charlie becomes the immediate suspect. There are side-plots also, Sally's attraction to liberal attorney Dave Haggerty (and continuing flutter of the heart for detective Scotty Atkins), pressure from her school to scrounge up funding. Complex, it all resolves and hangs together nicely in the end. Highly recommended.
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  • jazzman
    4.0 out of 5 stars Howdy, Cowgirl!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2011
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    Mustang Sally isn't really a cowgirl but she kicks butt better than you might imagine. Gingy Scharf knows how to write a good tale and her series of mysteries featuring the irrepressible Sally are a hoot. A good read.
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  • Grandma Beth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2016
    Enjoyable read
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  • A. Lyner
    2.0 out of 5 stars Weakest title in the series (thus far)
    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2007
    Having read all of the Mustang Sally mysteries, I have to say I found this one to be the least interesting. Perhaps the pattern is becoming too familiar to me: Sally encounters a dangerous situation. Sally's friends warn her not to get involved. Sally gets involved anyway, endangering her life and her relationship with Hawk. Then she solves the mystery and everybody lives happily ever after, sort of. But if you've read all of the others, you might as well read this one too. It just seems with each successive novel the author has less and less original to say. Part of the reason I think this one is less engaging than the others, is that Sally has much less interaction with the Langham family. Those characters are much more involved in the other books in the series.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars superb academic mystery
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2006
    University of Wyoming Professor Sally Alder always start her Women's Rights in America class with the English common law "Rule of Thumb" that a man must use physical force to correct anything he deems is misbehavior by his wife or children; even the bible affirms that this is God's decree. In the twenty-first century, Sally points out that we are more enlightened, but some still hold to the rod and sword.

    Student Charlie Preston stopped attending class about a month ago, but now sits outside Sally's office battered; she refuses to go to the cops, her family or even a hospital to insure no internal damage. Sally provides Charlie with some money while assuming the coed's dad Brad, who has harmed her before, beat her up. Charlie vanishes again and not long afterward Sally learns that someone killed Brad. The obvious suspect is Charlie so Sally with the help of attorney Dave Haggerty investigates the homicide as she firmly believes her abused student is innocent.

    In her fourth academic mystery (see BYE, BYE LOVE) Mustang Sally places herself in danger in an effort to prove the innocence of an abuse victim. The story line starts off very interesting as Sally lectures her class of mostly zombies on the Rule of Thumb that fascinatingly is never mentioned by Fundamentalists when quoting scripture as the rationale behind a social poison. The investigation is fun to follow while the heroine's relationship with Hawk is jeopardized by the attention Dave gives her. Fans of strong resourceful female sleuths will enjoy the Professor's latest escapades.

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