People of the Mist (First North Americans, Book 9)

by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear

Book Overview

People of the Mist takes us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entire Algonquin... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812515609
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.3" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful!

I am a huge fan of the First North American series. This book is certainly among my favorites. It keeps you guessing and there are many twists and turns. I have a very difficult time finding large print books now that I am legally blind, but I am thrilled I was able to find this one. A very good read!

great book

From the very beginning, I was fascinated by the combination of anthropological history and fiction. This book was easy to read yet still maintained my interest. It was a murder-mystery involving many potential suspects and a wide variety of twists and turns. This was definitely a great book.

Wonderful!

I thought this book was the best of the Gears' books. I loved it. I was enthralled by the characters and the need to find out who killed Red Knot. I was incredibly surprised by the ending. A must read for any Gears fan.

Couldn't put it down!

I have read almost all of the Prehistoric "People of the..." novels by the Gears (I am currently reading the People of the Masks). People of the Mists is FANTASTIC! What a great murder mystery! I could not guess the killer til the end...and even then...wow! The characters are well drawn and the hints and clues and potential killers with their wide array of motives are very skillfully inserted in the story. I like all of the books of the series. People of the Lakes is the best, with Mists ranking second on my list. Highly recommended!

Different style but just as good...

This is the latest book in the People series that I have read, and it is a little different from the rest. It was given to me by a friend, and I thought that the storyline didn't sound to exciting (I'm not into that mystery type books), but I was in for a surprise. This book was awesome! Second best that they have written... I liked People of the River the best... and very entertaining. The charachters are not as mystic and dreamerlike as the other People books are, but it makes them more believable, and realistic. The Panther was so intriguing, his past and present life. I liked the way he allowed mostly everyone to think he was a witch, when he really was just an old man who resented his past mistakes but had the Power (a different kind of Power than htat of the other books in this series), to correct those of others. Sun Conch was so regal and brave, she didn't desrve to love such a coward. I almost cried when... well, you gotta read it. Throughout the whole book, I thought I knew who the killer was. I would jump around from character to character changing my ideas, at one time even coming to the conclusion that White Otter and Quick Fawn were in on it together. I would read one part of the book, and backtrack to another part of the book to see if my theory fit, and sometimes it did, but sometimes it didn't. In any case, if you wanna find out who killed the heiress Red Knot, you have to buy this book.