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Title: White Sky, Black Ice by Stan Jones ISBN: 1569473331 Publisher: Soho Press, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.41

Rating: 5
Summary: An authentic picture of police work in rural Alaska
Comment: This book is a flawless gem! Born in a native village but raised in a big city, a young Alaskan State Trooper is posted to the town where he was born. He is faced with solving a puzzling series of suicides while trying to balance himself between two cultures. It's a corking good mystery and placed in a genuine Alaskan setting.

I was a Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal in Alaska during its final territorial and early statehood years. What impressed me most about this book was its absolute authenticity. The natives, the way they live, their unique speech patterns, the land they live in, and the climate they endure are all true to life. Just as realistic are the problems facing a police officer in the rural areas of Alaska.

WHITE SKY, BLACK ICE turned back the clock for me and I felt right at home, page after page. Read it. You'll learn more about the real Alaska from this book than from any guided tour!

Rating: 5
Summary: WHITE SKY, BLACK ICE
Comment: There are times when you stumble across a book you weren't looking for, get hooked on the first page, then savor it all the way through, feeling reluctant to finish but unable even to guess the ending. Stan Jones' WHITE SKY, BLACK ICE was this book for me. A mystery set in far-away(for me, a Florida resident) Alaska about strange goings-on in an Inupiaq town and surrounding area, the book fleshed out what it feels like to be a modern day native North American, it understands bug business, even flying a small plane. In keeping with the environment, perhaps, the prose is sparse yet amply descriptive, and the characters are richly imagined - they evoke ways of life and thought I'd like to know more about. I've often started with an author's latest book and worked backwards - it's a challenge to detect the development of an author's skill, albeit in reverse. It will be a treat to follow Stan Jones' development, having read his first book, in the other direction.

Rating: 5
Summary: White Sky, Black Ice - excellent debut
Comment: This is what I (who has seldom been moved to contact an author - and never to have rec'd via a commercial forum) had to say to the author, Stan Jones:

Hi, I have just read _White Sky, Black Ice_ (was reading through the John Straley backlist, so was in an "Alaskan" mood), and *really* enjoyed it. Are there to be sequels?.

I am drawn to Alaskan/SW US mystery fiction for no more solid reason (that I can fathom), than that the culture/geography becomes a character in itself. It was refreshing to have such a young protag (lots of room for the afore-mentioned sequels ), and the utter "otherliness" of the experience (we have few Inuipaq in New Zealand).

This is all a long-winded way of saying I really liked the book and hope to see more of Nathan Active (and am less coherent in person!) -- Cheers, Helen .

Some(mystery)novels give you a journey, some have characters you like, and some add the geography as another character - WSBI does all of these - for me. Apparently there *are* to be more in the series - and I, for one, can't wait. H

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