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    City of Saints; A Mystery
    City of Saints; A Mystery
    City of Saints; A Mystery
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    City of Saints; A Mystery

    By Andrew Hunt

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    To the outside observer, Salt Lake City seems to be the squeaky-clean “City of Saints”—its nickname since Mormon pioneers first arrived. Its wide roads, huge Mormon temple topped by a horn-blowing angel, and orderly neighborhoods give it the appearance of the ideal American city, but looks can be deceiving.  When a beautiful socialite turns up dead, Art Oveson, a twenty-something husband, father, and devout Mormon just getting his start—finds himself thrust into the role of detective. With his partner, a foul-mouthed former strikebreaker, he begins to pursue the murderer—or murderers. His search takes him into the underbelly of Salt Lake City, a place rife with blackmail, corruption, and death. Based on a true yet largely forgotten murder that once captivated the nation but still remains unsolved eighty years later, City of Saints reveals a darker picture of the Mormon capital than you ever expected.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 30, 2012
    ISBN9781250015792
    City of Saints; A Mystery
    Author

    Andrew Hunt

    ANDREW HUNT is a professor of history in Waterloo, Ontario. His areas of study include post-1945 U.S. History, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the American West. He has written reviews for The Globe and Mail and The National Post, and he is the author of two works of nonfiction, The Turning and David Dellinger and is coauthor of The 1980s. He grew up in Salt Lake City, where his novel, City of Saints, is set, and he currently lives in Canada.

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    • 4/5
      Since I have fallen in love with Salt Lake City after my son lived there for a year, I searched for novels that have anything to do with the city, and I found Hunt's books. I enjoyed this murder mystery that takes place in 1930s SLC. The detective involved is Art Oveson, and he will appear in other books also. He is Mormon, and there is some reference to how it affects his life, especially in contrast to his partner in his job, but it isn't an overwhelming part of the book. I am not Mormon, and I enjoyed this book for the mystery and the setting. I looked up pictures of the city at that time to get a better idea of what it all looked like. I especially liked the reference in it to a little mining settlement in the mountains outside of the city called Park City - quite a contrast to the ski haven of today.