But she's hiding her own heartbreak: her ne'er-do-well, adventurous father disappeared 16 years ago during a dangerous climb. She's a bush pilot, lives alone and likes it, takes her pleasure where she finds it-and rolling around with Nate is a very pleasurable experience indeed. Just so happens that Charlene's daughter is a knockout: beautiful, athletic, black-haired Meg has ice-blue eyes that can undress a man in a flash. Nate's got a lot on his mind: between the death of his partner at the Baltimore PD, who left a grieving widow and three kids, and a divorce Nate didn't want, he's emotionally numb. Peach, the motherly town gossip, warned him about the brassy boardinghouse owner in no uncertain terms. A newcomer like Nate gets a lot of attention, but does he ever wish that Charlene, hip-swinging, heavily made-up, middle-aged mantrap, would leave him alone. The locals? They call themselves the Lunatics, of course: back-to-nature survivalists, native Inuit, former hippies, and oddballs of every stripe. Nate Burke, the new chief of police in the little town of Lunacy, had a few qualms about living in the moose-infested end of nowhere, but there's something about the place-a man can breathe, if he doesn't mind having icicles for a mustache. 601) doesn't miss in this wild and woolly tale of love and murder in Alaska. The Queen of Romance has you in her sights. 12) Forecast: Roberts keeps her lock on bestseller lists with her uncanny ability to balance high-quality work and high-frequency publication. The result is a richly textured novel that captures the intimacy of smalltown police work, the prickliness of the pioneer spirit and the paradox of a setting at once intimate and expansive, welcoming and hostile, indisputably American and yet profoundly exotic to those in the Lower 48. Though billed as romantic suspense, the novel forsakes artificial genre conventions in favor of a wry, affectionate look at community bonds, generational wounds and soul-testing landscapes. With quiet inexorability he fields the flak, uncovers long-forgotten events and finds a tough but loving balance with the fiercely independent Meg. Though state authorities dismiss that death as suicide, Nate pursues it as a crime a decision that puts him at odds with many outspoken Lunatics, as the townspeople call themselves. The discovery that Pat Galloway was murdered most likely by a local shakes up the town and drives his murderer to commit a second, cover-up killing. Then Meg's father, who disappeared 16 years before, is found frozen in a remote mountain cave, an ice ax in his chest. His early days in the close-knit town are quiet except for minor disturbances and a dalliance with a feisty bush pilot, Meg Galloway. 506), to stave off the depression caused by divorce and the traumatic death of his partner, for which he holds himself partly responsible. Former Baltimore cop Nate Burke accepts the unlikely post of police chief of Lunacy, Alaska (pop.
Roberts shines again with a nuanced tale of the Alaskan wilderness and the appealing eccentrics who cluster there.
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