This has been my favourite book in the series so far (it’s the third). In this book Kate is working on a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea. There are two reasons that this worked for me. The first was that the setting was wonderful and I really got the feel of the icy seas and the isolated villages visited. The second is that because Kate was away from her home ground I didn’t spend half the book wondering if I was supposed to remember the characters from the previous books which is what happened when I read the second book. The only other recurring character in this book, as far as I could tell anyway, was Jack Morgan who is Kate’s lover and the police contact who gets her into these mysteries.

I think if you get too hung up on finding the mystery in this book you probably wouldn’t enjoy it, Kate herself seems to forget that she is supposed to be investigating the deaths of a couple of fishermen most of the time. That didn’t spoil it for me, I was enjoying finding out about the fishing as much as anything. I can’t say I’d recommend this book to anyone except as a glimpse into Alaska and given that the investigatory side of the book doesn’t seem particularly realistic I have to wonder whether any of the fishing detail and Aleut customs parts of the story were at all realistic too.

All in all it was a short and interesting read though and I’ll keep reading about Kate’s adventures.