Roberts shines again with a nuanced tale of the Alaskan wilderness and the appealing eccentries who cluster there ... A richly textured novel that captures the intamacy of small-town police work, the prickliness of the pioneer spirit, and the paradox of a setting at once intimate and expansive, welcoming hostile, indisputably American and yet profoundly exotic to those in the Lower 48 ... Publishers Weekly ... I have yet to be disappointed with Roberts... This is a must for any Roberts fan ...