But, Beth needs to heed the advice of the people who live there. I’ve loved Paige Shelton’s books and her writing for quite a while. Maybe one man isn’t home, but when a shed falls on her, she knows she shouldn’t have been there in the first place. How long can the mystery of Beth’s kidnapper continue in the series? Not long, if she continues to take stupid steps by walking into buildings she presumes are empty. Now, after she hits her head, Beth sees the man’s face when she runs into strange men she doesn’t know. It also shook loose some of her memories of her kidnapping, especially after Mill puts a name to the man. Not only did two unidentified muddy girls show up, but a woman’s frozen corpse has been found.īeth is convinced the history of the town, a fire, missing women, the two children, and a couple bodies are all connected somehow, and the mudslide shook everything loose. It seems a recent mudslide has shaken up the world around Benedict. But, he has another situation on his hands as well. She takes them back to Benedict House, and they’re cleaned up before she notifies Gril, the police chief. She accidentally booked it when she was trying to find a place to live.īeth is working at the newspaper office one day when two girls, about 8 or 9, show up at the door. Beth is hiding out, running the local newspaper, and living in Benedict House, a halfway house for female felons.

Louis is still looking, and Beth’s crazy mother, Mill, is looking for the kidnapper as well as Beth’s father, who disappeared when Beth was a child. He hasn’t yet, although a police detective in St. Louis to hide out, hoping her kidnapper would be found. But, Beth goes a little too far in this book, in my opinion.įive months earlier, Beth fled St. If you had been kidnapped, and held prisoner for three days before escaping, would you wander into empty houses in the woods without telling anyone where you were? I get it that amateur sleuths need to take chances and make discoveries, or there wouldn’t be a mystery. But, Beth Rivers herself drove me nuts in this book. I still love the remote setting for this series, Benedict, Alaska. A year ago, I said I loved Paige Shelton’s first mystery set in Alaska featuring Beth Rivers, Thin Ice.

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