Dead of Winter | Gerri Brightwell
A fast-paced, darkly funny crime novel set in Interior Alaska that follows down-on-his-luck cabbie, Mike Fisher, as he searches for his daughter.Her step-father has been shot in her bathroom, and Fisher thinks she killed him and fled. In a panic he tries to hide the body, but thatâe(tm)s not easy when itâe(tm)s fifty-below outside.Things get dangerously complicated when it turns out step-dad was part of a local militia, and now theyâe(tm)re on Fisherâe(tm)s tail.Dead of Winter evokes the harshness of winter in the subâe'arctic and the intrigue fostered in a bored, trapped and socially circumscribed small-town community.
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