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Review title: A substantial disappointment
Product review: While I have read, and indeed reread, all of Dana Stabenow's wonderful Alaska-based mysteries, the present effort is an ill-advised venture into what she rightly calls (on the dust jacket) a "thriller." As one might anticipate from her previous work the Alaska environment and the Coast Guard involvement are well developed but the plot as a whole is strained and, as usual in this type of work, held together only by a chain of improbable happenings. In contrast to her previous work this book leaves, from the start, little doubt about the nature of what is going to happen or about its overall outcome. Unlike her previous Alaska-based mysteries, it is easy to put down.The author appears to have her own doubts as well. In the Acknowledgements at the back of the book she notes "My thanks also to my agent, Rich Henshaw, who kept insisting I write a thriller. Now that I have, maybe he'll leave me alone." Let us hope that he does!
