Book Review: Deadly Detail

Reviewed By: Woodstock - RAM

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Don Porter
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Thriller   Aviation
Poisoned Pen Press, September 2005, 225 pages

Alaska during the years of constructing the pipeline is the setting for this debut novel. Bush pilot Alex Price is heading to Fairbanks and the prospect of a few days off. As he and a friend leave a bar where they have been catching up with each other, the friend's truck explodes and the man is killed.

When Price goes to inform the man's wife and seek to comfort her, they are in turn assaulted in her home and narrowly escape to the river bed and an impromptu canoe trip. Price's suspicions begin to center on a local flying service, where the dead man had been employed.

Law enforcement officers are not uninvolved, but play a relatively minor role in the ensuing action as Price and the widow stay one step ahead of their pursuers.

DEADLY DETAIL becomes something close to an Alaska travel brochure, as the reader is treated to descriptions of a beautiful wildnerness and countless stops for sumptuous meals and wine. The somewhat repetitive scenes of chase and be chased eventually are resolved with the arrest of the guilty.

Woodstock - RAM

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