Ghost Light

With the help of a demented Alaska Native elder, Chukchi police chief Nathan Active hunts for the killer who left a woman's expertly dismembered body in the ice cellar of an abandoned Inupiat Eskimo fish camp. The investigation pulls Active into a dark tangle of love and jealousy, even as he struggles to recover from the PTSD that has haunted him since being wounded in a shootout in an earlier case.Ghost Light is the seventh installment in the critically acclaimed Nathan Active series: Painterly descriptions of ALaska's natural beauty and the lives of the native people are fascinating. - USA Today. An enchanting series - People. You can feel the bite of the west wind that comes screaming across the Alaska tundra and sense the isolation of the Inupiat Eskimos who live in this desolate part of the world. - New York Times Review of Books