Alaska

Interview: Iris Yamashita

27 February, 2024

Although some people liken it to Nordic noir due to the latitude, Alaskan crime fiction has its own vibes and tropes. In some ways, it’s like that 90s TV show Northern Exposure, with murder thrown in. Quirky and dark. The cold is a killer, the…

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Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita

By DeathBecomesHer

14 February, 2024

We’re back in the cold wastes of Alaska for Village in the Dark, Iris Yamashita’s follow up to her debut novel City Under One Roof, which got a five-star review on the site early last year. That story was set in the fictional town of…

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Blizzard by Marie Vingtras

By DeathBecomesHer

11 January, 2024

Translated by Stephanie Smee — As if some of us are not cold enough at this time of year, book publishers seem to delight in choosing January to serve up new reads set in the chilliest climates. One such is Marie Vingtras‘s remarkable debut, the…

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True Detective: Night Country coming to HBO Max and Sky Atlantic

By crimefictionlover

9 January, 2024

Set in Louisiana, the first season of True Detective, back in 2014, was too hot to handle in so many ways. Now, as the anthology series reaches its fourth season, an Arctic chill blows through and we join Jodie Foster as an Alaska cop investigating…

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City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

By DeathBecomesHer

13 January, 2023

If December released a rash of Christmas-related novels into the crime fiction universe, it appears that January brings the snow. New Year’s Day is still a recent memory, but already in 2023 we’ve reviewed Cold People by Tom Rob Smith, set in the Antarctic, and…

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Blown by the Same Wind by John Straley

By crimefictionlover

15 December, 2022

John Straley is both a criminal investigator and an award-winning crime novelist. His home is Alaska, he clearly loves the place, and he was the state’s writer laureate from 2006 to 2008. His fine storytelling and literary skills are on full burn in Blown by…

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Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

By Vicki Weisfeld

22 October, 2020

Forecasts in the States are for a snowy winter, and if you want to gear up for the cold, you couldn’t do better than reading Sue Henry’s first Alaska mystery. Whatever the weather throws at the rest of us, compared to people who race the…

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Baby's First Felony by John Straley

By RoughJustice

28 June, 2018

Let me introduce you to Cecil Younger, investigator for the public defender’s office in Sitka, Alaska, and star of a series of novels written by an author who is himself retired from the same job. Younger is married to Jane Marie, is in his late…

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Interview: Iris Yamashita

Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita

Blizzard by Marie Vingtras

True Detective: Night Country coming to HBO Max and Sky Atlantic

City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

Blown by the Same Wind by John Straley

Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

Baby's First Felony by John Straley

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