Blue Moon (A Howard Moon Deer Mystery) Paperback – February 20, 2020

I like all the stories i've read by Robert Westbrook. I love how he paints word pictures that describe the way people think or act. He's very good at storytelling and immersing you in the environment he creates. He surely knows New Mexico and the people there. Consider me an avid fan!

This book was written about a topic few people know about unless you watched "The Big Bang Theory" . The story jumps around quite a lot and is difficult to keep all of these characters separate. It seems to have several chameleons in the book.

As always this was not only a great mystery, but how human are the characters. A book,to me, is only as good as the characters. In this series they are very human. Good people with human flaws. They overcome most of them, but the books don’t end with everything wonderful. They win, but people are hurt and injured to get over the challenges. Makes the books very real. As this one was. Good story line too.

I‘ve enjoyed previous books in the Howard Moon Deer series, but the plot of Blue Moon stretches credibility. I found it difficult to stick with it to the end.

I love the Howard Moon Deer series. I have read all of the earlier ones , in order, and I do plan to order the latest one. In this book, Moon Deer is confronted with physicists and spacemen. Well, not really spacemen, byt an attempt to bamboozle people into thinking they are seeing spacemen. It is all part of an elaborate plot by a reclusive millionaire -- aged and a bit dotty. Jack and Katya save the day.

“Blue Moon” is as convoluted and entertaining as any of Robert Westbrook’ s Howard Moon Deer mysteries. People old enough to remember Howard Hughes, Jim Jones, or the Branch Davidians might not even find the story far-fetched, although it does require some suspension of disbelief.Fortunately, Westbrook’s series is also driven by appealing characters, from Howie himself and his private investigator boss Jack Wilder to Jack’s wife Emma and Howie’s on-and-off girlfriend Claire. New Mexico plays its part too. San Geronimo may not be on the map, but its geography feels authentic.

great mystery set int he southwest with both Anglo and native and Hispanic characters,humorous and engrossing.once again Howie and jack save he day. more background on established characters good for old readers of this duo detective team

It drove me nuts to read Heisenberg's "Principal" over and over, although the editor got the Copernican Principle right. The principal character, Howard Moon Deer, has more principles in this book, and more courage. I get tired of him stumbling around ineffectively in this series. He always needs to be rescued. It gets old and I think he should finish his dissertation and grow up.

This tale was easier reading than a lot of past Moon Deer stories because Westbrook avoided all the gratuitous, virtue-signalling political crap he used to stuff in to his stories. He concentrated on the story line and characters. So I will keep reading them for now.