Murder at Haven’s Rock
(Haven’s Rock #1)
by Kelley Armstrong

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Haven’s Rock, Yukon. O

Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven’s Rock isn’t the first town of this kind, something detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, know first-hand. They met in the original town of Rockton. But greed and deception led the couple to financing a new refuge for those in need. This time around, they get to decide which applicants are approved for residency.

There’s only one rule in Haven’s stay out of the forest. When two of the town’s construction crew members break it and go missing, Casey and Eric are called in ahead of schedule to track them down. When a body is discovered, well-hidden with evidence of foul play, Casey and Eric must find out what happened to the dead woman, and locate those still missing. The longer Casey and Eric don’t know what happened, the more danger everyone is in.

My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

They aren’t allowed into the forest. That’s been made very clear. It’s dangerous and untamed Alaskan wilderness, filled with grizzlies and wolves and killers. Okay, no one said “killers” but they all know Alaska is where serial killers run when they need to escape the police.

Penny has never been what anyone would call outdoorsy— she once rolled in poison ivy to get sent home from summer camp…

I don’t have autism. I’m just an unfeeling bitch.

My Review:

This was my introduction to the scribblings of Kelley Armstrong and I now count myself a fan. The storylines held a persistent tension of arduous physical demands with lurking danger and impending doom, yet with welcome threads of snarky humor and wit cleverly woven through.

While this is the initial installment of a new series, the characters have been carried over from a previous one. Despite not having read the previous tales, I wasn’t hampered by my lack of awareness of their history as the author did an excellent job of filling in the requisite information. I have the next two installments locked and loaded on my Kindle and am immediately diving into the next book.

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Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though she’s been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery, and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.