Better To Rest (Liam Campbell Mysteries)
Like a spectral presence, a hand clutching a gold piece emerges from the  ice of a calving glacier near the small town where Alaska state trooper Liam  Campbell is investigating the brutal murder of a 74-year-old woman. The hand  belonged to an army soldier killed with his crewmates in the crash of the World  War II army plane entombed by the glacier a half century ago. Although it takes  several long and occasionally tedious pages before Campbell and pilot Wy  Chouinard make the connection between Lydia Tompkins's murder, the source of her  family's mysterious wealth, and the secret mission that led to the crash of the  old C-47, fans of this series won't mind. A skillful chronicler of Alaska's  extraordinary landscape and its eccentric inhabitants, Dana Stabenow does a  competent job with a plot that lacks much drama or suspense; what little there  is comes from Liam and Wy's on-again, off-again romance.--Jane Adams--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.