An offbeat, often hilarious crime novel set in the sleepy Alaskan town
of Cold Storage from the Shamus Award winning author of the Cecil
Younger series.
Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries
sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King
Salmon if you're zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse
fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town
enjoyed prosperity at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the
cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the town is withering.
Clive "The Milkman" McCahon returns to his tiny Alaska hometown after a
seven-year jail stint for dealing coke. He has a lot to make up to his
younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of their
ailing mother. But Clive doesn't realize the trouble he's bringing home.
His vengeful old business partner is hot on his heels, a
stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust Clive for narcotics,
and, to complicate everything, Clive might be going insane--lately, he's
been hearing animals talking to him. Will his arrival in Cold Storage be
a breath of fresh air for the sleepy, depopulated town? Or will Clive's
arrival turn the whole place upside down?
