This is one of a series of fishing guidebooks to northern Wisconsin by this publisher. This review equally applies to all other books of the series. I have found these books invaluable for planning my fishing trips to northern Wisconsin. This particular book covers 68 lakes in 140 square miles surrounding Eagle River, Wisconsin. It contains maps and information about each lake's size, depth, fertility, public access, fish species, and describes the best fishing spots and recommended lures and techniques. The book is a convenient size (8 1/2 x 5 1/2) and fits into a tackle box. The other volumes of the series are similar. These books went out of print because the publisher found it more profitable to sell individual lake maps. Their maps provide the same information but are available only for the most popular lakes, and a book is easier to use than a pile of maps. Using these books to plan my fishing trips, I can fish more lakes and spend my time on the most productive spots. This is especially important to me because I live over 2,000 miles away and visit this area only once every five years. I fish for muskies but bass, walleye, and pan fishermen also will find these books handy. I give them 5 stars because the information is very complete and not readily available otherwise. I was not paid for this review and have no affiliation with the publisher. I am simply a fisherman who likes this product a lot for the reasons stated above.

This book inables the reader to creates, in their mind, an interesting and different look at the world around them. I would encourage younger people to reader this book, espialally none Native Americans. I believe it is a very important piece of Native American culture.

I wasn't sure if I liked it at first, and almost gave up on it. Instead I kept at it, and once I was past the first couple of chapters or so I found that I began to enjoy the story. I became interested enough in the characters to want to know what was going to happen to them. And interested enough to want to follow the story to see where it was going. I didn't, perhaps, enjoy it quite as much as some of the Tony Hillerman books, but the series does have some very positive possibilities.

You can't go wrong with any of the Margaret Coel books. They are enjoyable to read and you can hardly believe when you've come to the end that it came so quickly. Fortunately, you can buy them all and continue to the next one in the series. These people become as real to you as your own friends. Don't stop at one - get them all.

An unlikely couple of sleuths team up in this mystery to uncover murder and theft. Father John O'Malley, a Jesuit priest at the Wind River Indian Reservation, gets "his nose into other people's business" and so begins a caper that already has three sequels. His alter-ego help comes from Vicky, the Arapaho Lawyer, surnamed Woman Alone. Their disparent skills become all that is needed in finding out the murderer and the one responsible for the great land theft against the Arapaho Nation.

But what makes this unusual novel so likeable is its rich respect for two faiths and cultures: the Native-Americans and the Jesuit priests. Coel provides a synthesis of faith in the midst of an entertaining mystery and that is talent. And it makes the reading of the tale a multi-level experience of pleasure.

I have read other books by Ms. Siddons and found them to be very satisfying. This book held my attention all the way through and was very well written and plotted out, but left me completely unsatisfied.

I was in the mood for a good ghost story and when I found out that this one impressed Stephen King so much, I thought it would be a satisfying one. Unfortunately I was let down. It wasn't scary, it wasn't spooky, and in the end it didn't deliver.

This is the story a very nice couple living in a wealthy neighborhood. Next door is a beautiful wooded lot that they enjoy looking at and are dismayed when bulldozers come and a gentle architect begins building the house next door. They get to know him and care for him, they become the best of friends. You learn to like and care for all three of the central characters in this story -- that is truly the mark of a good writer. In succession, three different families live in the house and come to disaster -- you never get to know them well, but you feel sorry for them. Eventually this wonderful couple and this sweet man are drawn to the end together and that's where the major "thud" comes in. The ending was very unsatisfying and didn't seem well thought out at all.

The reason it isn't scary or spooky is because the ghost story portion of the tale is never fully delved into, only alluded to. This book did not gain keeper status on my shelf and I probably will never recommend it to friends.

In response to the previous reviewers comments: Don't get this one! You WILL regret it. If you really want to read it get it from the library then you'll be glad to give it back at the end.

This book is so different from the usual haunted house fare. There really isn't much that serves as a tangible reason for the house being so evil, it just apparently is. And it's a vicious house for certain, preying on psychological fear rather than manifesting itself as a poltergiest or apparition. Things just "happen" in or around the house, disturbing things. Lives are ruined and that is the only motiff that emerges. It's not a singular entity with just murder in mind. It wants to cause pain to its victims on an inner level and that is extremely frightening in concept. The novel is like a constant mind rape of the characters involved and it is so very delicious in its malice. One of the top 10 horror novels I have ever read and way more intense than Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House or Richard Matheson's Hell House. A must read for any fan of the horror genre or any new home owner.

I've read them all and loved them. Siddons is a fine tale-teller (just as you'd expect from a Southerner) and she has a talent for creating real and believable characters. I'm not a fan of horror and picked this up thinking it was suspense. I was right -- horror suspense!

When strange things begin happening at the new house next door to the Kennedys, this book just takes over. I couldn't get away from it until I finished it.

Siddons was a long time reporter for Atlanta magazine, honing her craft under one of the best editors of the 50s and 60s. That's why her prose is so magical -- descriptions of people and places are vivid and never dull.

This is Siddons at her very best. I hope she writes another suspense novel someday. I'd like to have that to look forward to.