Title: A Classic Murder Mystery
Review: Fire and Ice by Dana Stabenow takes off fast and holds the pace pretty much throughout the story. Other than the isolation there's not much said about Alaska, but you get the feel of its vastness, the almost terrible beauty of the place, from the way the power of the landscape shapes everyday life. Trooper Campbell steps off the plane at his new assignment and into a murder. The story is littered with unusual characters that are the usual for small villages and their individual life styles are as important to the story as the murders and love stories they're involved in. Abundance and scarcity dominate everything. Life here is physically demanding and most of the work dangerous, when it's not boring. Add guns, knives, alcohol, money, love and racial ethnocentricities and you have all the right ingredients for a great murder mystery. A fast, fun read.
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