Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda

April 08, 2024

This is one of the few police procedurals that I’ve read that is so much better than the publisher’s description. Kerri Hakoda’s Cold to the Touch is an outstanding procedural in which all the departments work well together, and the supervisor is not...

Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita

February 13, 2024

Iris Yamashita’s City Under One Roof was a Best Mystery of the Year for Library Journal last year. The debut mystery introduced an Alaskan city, Point Mettier, that houses 205 residents all in one building. Two of the women featured in that book return in...

Lost Hours by Paige Shelton

December 05, 2023

While I’m a fan of Paige Shelton’s Alaska Wild series, in my opinion, Lost Hours isn’t the best of the five books. I found it confusing at times, with too many plotlines to keep straight. And, with the cliffhanger ending that I suspected was coming,...

City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

January 10, 2023

One reason I found the concept for Iris Yamashita’s debut mystery so intriguing is because I had seen the CBS Sunday Morning feature about Whittier, Alaska. Yamashita’s City Under One Roof is set in the fictional town of Point Mettier, Alaska, but her...

Winter’s End by Paige Shelton

December 05, 2022

For the fourth time, Paige Shelton takes readers back to Benedict, Alaska where author Beth Rivers is hiding from the man who kidnapped her just over a year earlier. Beth’s survived a year in Benedict, and it’s Winter’s End. Beth was responsible for...