This, the ninth novel featuring Kate Shugak, is Stabenow's most compelling to date. Kate, former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing. She is spending the winter working under an assumed name in an effort to get over a grief she can't discuss. Her best friend, State Trooper Jim Chopin, needing her to help him work a new case, discovers her hiding out in Bering, a small fishing village on Alaska's western coast. Before they can even discuss Kate's last several months, or what Jim is doing looking for her in Bering, they are up to their eyebrows in Jim's case, which is suddenly more complicated - and more dangerous - than they suspected.
"Stabenow's newest novel is her best yet, a story with the exhilarating freshness of its Alaska setting." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)