Review: Sea to Sky
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2013
I received a complimentary copy of this book for my review. The characters, particularly long haul trucker and former RCMP detective Hunter Rayne, are well drawn, and the scenery in Canada and Washington State adds to the plot, dialog and general package of well done solid police procedural. We learn that Hunter Rayne may have resigned the Mounties and  compromised with a more solitary job of trucker, but he is forever drawn into solving the mysteries of life that he encounters as he travels around the country. An attractive lawyer invites him for a ski weekend on Whistler Mountain.  He defends her honor during a nasty encounter with her former husband, bully and stalker, Mike Irwin. When Irwin ends up dead on a ski lift, Hunter becomes a person of interest in the Mounties investigation. But the subject list is unending including his weekend date, Mike Irwin's present wife, and almost all of his colleagues, and relatives. Hunter tries to help the investigation, and the story widens as a private investigator emerges with more information about the dead man. At the same time Hunter is called on by an old friend to find her runnaway son.  I did not enjoy the number of characters, mostly Hunter's supervisor and fellow truckers, who are called in with side stories to follow up hopeless leads. The ending is quite surprising, and not totally satisfying.