What We're Reading: Edward

Village of the Ghost Bears


by Stan Jones


Nathan Active was born in Chukchi and is now stationed there as an Alaskan State Trooper. Nathan is an Inupiaq but he was adopted and raised by white parents in Anchorage. In this the fourth novel in the series, Nathan is learning to adjust to the ways of the Inupiaq. But he still yearns for a life in Anchorage. This is all complicated by his love for Grace, who he rescued in the previous novel, Frozen Sun. Nathan is working on two cases. Eight lives were lost in a fire at the Chukchi Recreation Center. One of the victims was the local police chief. Was the fire an accidental or a murder cover up? Was the police chief the target? Nathan is also working on the case of a body he found floating in a lake. Polar bear poaching seems to link the two cases. Nathan follows lead after lead across Northern Alaska until he gets his man.