Crime fiction set in WYOMING and MONTANA
The Orphan Master
Location(s): New York City (NYC)
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
Era(s): Mid 17th Century
Set in New Amsterdam in the mid-17th century, Zimmerman’s nicely flowing narrative is animated by robust characters who thrive on the edges of civilization. Hardy Dutch colonists are the main inhabitants of this bustling community, but traders and adventurers from many nations, along with Native Americans and Africans, all intermingle here “in a fluid, uneasy mix.”
Among them are a number of orphans, some shipped from the Netherlands, put into the care of the novel’s most intriguing character, Aet Visser, who places these children with families in need of servants or laborers. Money changes hands in such transactions, which doesn’t trouble Visser: but he does become alarmed when children begin to disappear amid rumors of a flesh-eating “demon-beast” known to the Algonquins as a witika.
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