My Review:
Polar Night
by
Julie Flanders
When I learn that a books setting is Alaska I am
immediately drawn to it and with Polar Night by Julie Flanders, I hit the
jackpot. Reading her paranormal mystery not only left me homesick for my most
favorite place, it had me looking at the genre with a new appreciation. She
takes the reader on chilling ride through the street of Fairbanks and makes the
Alaskan setting as much a character as her handsome and wounded detective Danny
Fitzpatrick.
Detective Danny Fitzpatrick and the evil Aleksei
Nechayev, are both mourning a lost love, and it leads to an interesting dynamic
between the two. Polar Night is a mystery well crafted, with well-developed
characters, and a setting that adds even more drama.
I'm looking forward to Julie's next paranormal
mystery with Detective Danny Fitzpatrick set under the midnight sun!
Yolanda Renée 2014
Book Blurb:
When Detective Danny
Fitzpatrick leaves his hometown of Chicago and moves to Fairbanks, Alaska, he
wants nothing more than to escape the violence and heartbreak that left his
life in pieces. Numbed by alcohol and the frozen temperatures of an Alaskan
winter, Danny is content with a dead-end job investigating Fairbanks' cold
cases. That all changes when a pretty blond woman goes missing on the winter
solstice, and Danny stumbles upon some surprising connections between her
disappearance and that of another Fairbanks woman three years earlier. Forced
out of his lethargy, Danny sets out to both find the missing woman and solve
his own cold case.
The investigation points Danny towards
Aleksei Nechayev, the handsome and charming proprietor of an old asylum turned
haunted tourist attraction in the Arctic town of Coldfoot. As he tries to find
a link between Nechayev and his case, Danny's instinct tells him that Nechayev
is much more than what he seems.
Danny has no idea that Nechayev is
hiding a secret that is much more horrifying than anything he could ever have
imagined. As his obsession with finding the missing women grows, Danny finds
his own life in danger. And when the truth is finally revealed, the world as he
knows it will never be the same.
Julie Flanders is a novelist and
freelance writer who has written for both online and print publications. She is
an animal lover and shares her home in Cincinnati, Ohio with her dog and cat.
Her debut novel Polar Night, a paranormal suspense thriller, is now available
from Ink Smith Publishing at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.
Her second novel, The Ghosts of Aquinnah, was published by Ink Smith in
December, 2013. Find Julie online at her website, and on her blog, Twitter, Goodreads, Pinterest, and Facebook.
And please check out Julie's latest!
by
JULIE FLANDERS
A brilliant flash of light transcends through time.
Another freezes a cloaked figure within a frame of salty mist as waves crash against a rocky shore. Her harrowing expression shadows the beacon to a pinprick.
By the next blaze, she is gone. Only the lighthouse remains.
Hannah’s eyes blink in step with each heartbeat. Images of her deceased parents and Martha’s Vineyard explode like firecrackers inside her mind.
She shakes her head.
For weeks this eerie woman dressed in nineteenth century garb has been haunting my webcam, but tonight she stared into my soul.
Why? ...
Who is she? ...
Casting aside months of research on historic lighthouses, Hannah drives to the coast and boards a ferry.
What is the strange connection she has to this mysterious woman suspended in time?
Hannah finds out.
But, it’s not at all what she expects...
Hannah unravels a century old murder.
Another freezes a cloaked figure within a frame of salty mist as waves crash against a rocky shore. Her harrowing expression shadows the beacon to a pinprick.
By the next blaze, she is gone. Only the lighthouse remains.
Hannah’s eyes blink in step with each heartbeat. Images of her deceased parents and Martha’s Vineyard explode like firecrackers inside her mind.
She shakes her head.
For weeks this eerie woman dressed in nineteenth century garb has been haunting my webcam, but tonight she stared into my soul.
Why? ...
Who is she? ...
Casting aside months of research on historic lighthouses, Hannah drives to the coast and boards a ferry.
What is the strange connection she has to this mysterious woman suspended in time?
Hannah finds out.
But, it’s not at all what she expects...
Hannah unravels a century old murder.
