Ghost Light, Stan Jones
Ghost Light, Stan Jones
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Ghost Light

Author: Stan Jones, Patricia Watts

Narrator: Paul Jones

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Bowhead Press

Published: 10/01/2022


Synopsis

WITH THE HELP OF AN ALASKA NATIVE GRANDMOTHER SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA, VILLAGE POLICE CHIEF NATHAN ACTIVE HUNTS DOWN THE KILLER WHO HID A WOMAN’S DISMEMBERED BODY IN THE ICE CELLAR OF AN ABAN-DONED INUPIAT FISH CAMP.The case starts when Tommie Leokuk’s husband brings her to Active’s office to show him what she found in her latest midnight ramble around the Arctic hamlet of Chukchi. From the pouch of her traditional atiqluk, she pulls a human jawbone with a single molar still in place.Tommie’s dementia means she can’t explain where she found it. As her husband explains, “She lost her brain few years ago.”At first, Chief Active doesn’t know whether she’s found a murder victim or an old grave opened by erosion or scavengers.He soon discovers it’s very much a murder case, one of the most tangled he’s seen. The victim had two lovers, one male, one female. Both become suspects as the investigation proceeds.At the same time, Active grapples with PTSD from being shot in a prior case. When he starts to wonder how his gun would taste, he realizes it’s time to see Chukchi’s tribal healer, Nelda Qivits, who believes anything can be cured by a cup of bitter sourdock tea in her little cabin on a back street of Chukchi.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott on September 21, 2021

Since I was the first one to post that I read this new book on Goodreads, I thought a small review would be appropriate. There are semi spoilers here, so stop if you want. This series is underrated. This new book is cleverly plotted with dueling texts making the one and only current murder a difficul......more

Goodreads review by Jen on December 06, 2021

Ghost Light is the 7th in the Nathan Active series set in Alaska, but the first one I've read. Nathan Active was adopted by a white family and raised in Anchorage, but in the first book, Active found himself back in the area where he was born as Police Chief, trying to fit in culturally with the Inu......more

Goodreads review by Yvonne Panaro on January 16, 2023

great story Those of you that have read a Stan Jones’ Nathan Active book will enjoy this one very much. Well written and a page turner. I have read them all and I truly wish there were more. I hope the two authors come up with another Nathan Active mystery soon.......more