Skeleton Lake
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
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Publisher Description
Wounded during an investigation and still grieving the loss of his son, Anchorage private detective Nik Kane is determined to keep himself busy with a cold case that’s haunted him for twenty years. Danny Shirtleff was a cop who’d spent months undercover taking down violent criminals and cheating death until his luck ran out on a muddy road next to Skeleton Lake. Three slugs in the chest took care of Danny, and landed fledgling detective Nik Kane with the first big case of his career, one that he’s never been able to close.
But even in Alaska, cold cases have a habit of heating up. And Nik Kane is about to get burned.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Three different stories separated by decades propel Doogan's stellar third Alaska police procedural (after 2007's Capitol Offense): PI Nik Kane's poverty-stricken, fatherless youth in Anchorage during the early 1960s; Nik's first murder case at age 36, the unsolved homicide of fellow cop Danny Shirtleff in 1985; and the aftermath of a shooting in 2007 in which Nik's son, Dylan, took a fatal hit from a stray bullet from Nik's own gun. Nik's sister, Cee Cee, a nun, helps his body and soul recuperate in the wake of Dylan's accidental death. The jarring shifts of perspective, fine-tuned to Nik's lifelong search for his father, intensify as the novel crescendos toward its devastating conclusion. All the characters spring from the page as intense as today's violent crime headlines and as convincing as a .38 slug to the belly. Doogan, a former reporter and now Alaska state legislator, doesn't miss a searing beat in this three-movement symphony of loss, guilt and revenge.
