What I love most about The Buffalo Butcher is what Brighton chooses to do with it. This isn’t a story about a detective solving murders. It’s a story about five women — the ones society had already written off — who refuse to accept that no one is coming to save them.
That choice gives the book its emotional power. By the time the summer of 1901 reaches its terrible peak, you know these women. You understand exactly what they’re risking and exactly what it costs. Brighton writes female solidarity with real respect and care.
This is mystery and historical fiction and something more. A story about reclaiming humanity in a world designed to deny it.
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