About the Book
For two decades, the lush, isolated forests of the North Cascades have hidden a secret. Now, twenty years later, a mysterious contest has brought Mindy Harris back to the area she thought she’d left behind forever. A seemingly innocent creative design firm shows up for a company retreat, but all goes awry when one of their own turns up dead. Was it an accident? Murder?
And how does the unsolved mystery from twenty years ago play into it all?
Format: eBook, paperback (178 pp.) Publisher: Wishing Rock Press
Published: 11th March 2017 Genre: Mystery
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My Review
In Death at Glacier Lake, the author honours the conventions of the traditional “whodunit” story. So we have a remote location – in this case, a lodge resort in a beautiful lakeside setting – cut off from outside world by a freak storm. There’s a limited range of suspects – including the employees of a design firm attending a corporate retreat – all of whom, it begins to appear, may have had motive and opportunity to get rid of the victim. Who around the fire-pit had murder in their thoughts? Finally, and most importantly, there is the mystery of who arranged for our heroine, Mindy, to win a holiday at the lodge in a competition she doesn’t remember entering?
When all eyes fall on Mindy as the likely suspect due to the mysterious circumstances of her presence there and other seemingly incriminating facts, she is forced to take on the role of amateur sleuth to try to clear her own name and identify the culprit. But who can she trust to help with her investigation and will her search for the truth put her in danger as well? Moreover, just why is it she’s been brought there and by whom?
I really enjoyed this traditionally structured mystery. It was a nice easy read with an engaging central character, an interesting story line and an inviting setting. I didn’t guess “whodunit” or “whytheydunit” until close to the end of the book – always the sign of a well-written mystery. Death at Glacier Lake would make the perfect holiday time read for fans of Agatha Christie’s classic mysteries.
I received a review copy courtesy of the author in return for an honest and unbiased review.
In three words: Entertaining, nature, mystery
Try something similar…Nemesis by Agatha Christie
About the Author
Pam Stucky, a native of the Pacific Northwest, is the author of the Balky Point Adventures (MG/YA sci-fi, starting with The Universes Inside the Lighthouse); the Wishing Rock series (contemporary fiction/novels with recipes, starting with Letters from Wishing Rock); and the Pam on the Map series (travelogues that take readers along on Pam’s journeys and adventures around the world). Pam’s latest work is Death at Glacier Lake, a traditional/cosy mystery. Pam also writes screenplays and has a blog at the Huffington Post.
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