The Silver Shooter (Rose Gallagher #3) by Erin Lindsey

 

 

 

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

Category: Adult
Genre: Paranormal, Mystery
Content: Strong Language

It's the spring of 1887, and Rose Gallagher is finally coming into her own. She's the proud owner of a lovely little home near Washington Square, where she lives with her mother and friend Pietro, and she's making a name for herself as a Pinkerton agent with a specialty in things . . . otherworldly. She and her partner Thomas are working together better than ever, and mostly managing to push aside romantic feelings for one another. Mostly.

Things are almost too good to be true—so Rose is hardly surprised when Theodore Roosevelt descends on them like a storm cloud, hiring them for a mysterious job out west. A series of strange occurrences in the Badlands surrounding his ranch has Roosevelt convinced something supernatural is afoot.

It began with livestock disappearing from the range, their bodies later discovered torn apart by something monstrously powerful. Now people are dying, too. Meanwhile, a successful prospector has gone missing, and rumors about his lost stash of gold have attracted treasure hunters from far and wide – but they keep disappearing, too. To top it all off, this past winter, a mysterious weather phenomenon devastated the land, leaving the locals hungry, broke, and looking for someone to blame.

With tensions mounting and the body count rising, Roosevelt fears a single spark will be all it takes to set the Badlands aflame. It’s up to Rose and Thomas to get to the bottom of it, but they’re against the clock and an unknown enemy, and the west will prove wilder than they could possibly imagine…


This is the third installment in the Gilded Age Mystery series, and it was quite enjoyable. I like the change of setting and the fact that Rose was able to do more as a Pinkerton agent. I especially liked that Theodore Roosevelt was included in the story. He was such a larger than life character, and I feel like the author conveyed that really well in this story.

This is a historical mystery series with a paranormal twist and I really like that about it. It makes it a bit different from the other mysteries I read. However, the paranormal element in this one was just ok. I did not enjoy it as much as I did in the two previous books.

I liked that the romance heated up a bit in this book, but the ending was kind of sad. It definitely made we want to read the next book, because things just can't end that way. I need to know what happens next!

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for providing me with an ARC of this book.