Book Review: Thin Ice by Paige Shelton

Thin Ice
by Paige Shelton

Elizabeth Fairchild, a bestselling author, is kidnapped. Injured in her escape, she decides to recover as Beth Rivers in a small Alaskan town. Staying at a halfway house for convicted women, she takes on the job of running the local newspaper. When a local woman is found dead and the authorities find the dead woman is using a false name, Beth starts to poke around. Struggling with her own flashbacks, Beth is afraid her kidnapper has followed her. Is she in danger of being next?

This is a great first book in a new series. I can’t wait to read the next book. The characters need a little more developing, but hopefully that will happen with time. I like small town mysteries and this certainly fits the bill. There’s great tension and it will be interesting to see if the kidnapper finds Beth or will he be caught by the authorities (or Beth’s mother) in Missouri?

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow, A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier, or Slipknot by Linda Greenlaw]

[ official Alaska Mystery Series page on the official Paige Shelton web site ]

Recommended by Marcy G.
South Branch Library

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