BOOK REVIEW – Millie’s Cruise Ship Mysteries: Skagway Sleuths (Cruise Director Millie Mysteries Book 4)

BY Hope Callaghan (Author)  SKAGWAY SLEUTHS is the second of Hope Callaghan‘s Cruise Ship Director, Millie’s adventures in Alaska.  I really enjoy them, having recently cruised the inside passage in Alaska myself. These mysteries depict shipboard life very true to form.  It was like being there again as I read this book. Without the mystery, of course!!…

BOOK REVIEW – Thin Ice, a Wild Alaska Mystery

by Paige Shelton (Author)  a Book Review by Jackie Houchin  THIN ICE is a suspensful, psycological thriller set in a very small, inaccessable town in Alaska. This is the first in the series by Paige Shelton, and in my opinion, it is a winner.  It is a book that causes your heart to race, makes you look…

BOOK REVIEW – Death Takes Passage

by Sue Henry (Author) A Book Review by Jackie Houchin    DEATH TAKES PASSAGE by Sue Henry is one of  three of her Trooper Alex Jensen Alaska Mysteries (She has written many more with Jessie Arnold as main character, i.e. MURDER ON THE IDITAROD TRAIL).  I especially wanted to read this one because the setting is the…

BOOK REVIEW – The Matter of the Deserted Airliner: Alaska Disappearing Crew and Passengers Caper: Impossible Crime Mystery, Book 2

by Steve Levi (Author), Henry Marshall (Narrator), Publication Consultants (Publisher) An AUDIObook Review by Jackie Houchin  This caper – and it is not a murder mystery – was intriguing, well-plotted and jaw-dropping, with touches of humor and irony and hoorahs for good old fashioned police work.  Author Steve Levi must have a very sharp mind and some stunt-man experience to…

BOOK REVIEW – Crossing the Waters: Following Jesus Through the Storms, the Fish, the Doubt, and the Seas

by Leslie Leyland Fields (Author), Pamela Klein (Narrator), Oasis Audio (Publisher) An AUDIObook Review by Jackie Houchin Leslie Leyland Fields‘ story of life as a fisherman’s wife on Kodiak Island in Alaska and raising 6 children to be fishermen is astonishing, eye opening and mind boggling. On the practical side I will never be able to cook or eat a…

BOOK REVIEW – Icy Clutches; A Gideon Oliver Mystery, book 6

by Aaron Elkins (Author), Joel Richards (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An AUDIObook review by Jackie Houchin I love Aaron Elkins’ “Bone Detective” mysteries starring the uber smart, but bumbling, Dr. Gideon Oliver. The forensic details he discovers and talks about are fascinating (but non-gory) and make excellent clues to the mysteries. In Icy Clutches, Gideon is newly married and has…

BOOK REVIEW – Mousse and Murder, The Alaska Diner series, book 1

Elizabeth Logan (Author), Caroline Hewitt (Narrator), Blackstone Publishing (Publisher) An AUDIObook review by Jackie Houchin I enjoyed this cozy, first-in-the-series, mystery set in Alaska. The characters are fun (who wouldn’t love a gal with an orange tabby cat named Benny (Eggs Benedict), three truckers who stop in the diner nicknamed Manny, Moe and Jack, and a policeman named Trooper who…