11. Northern Lights by Nora Roberts

listened on Libby

2004
637 pgs.
Adult Mystery/Romance
Finished 1/31/2023
Goodreads rating: 4.02
My rating: 3
Setting: Contemporary Lunacy, Alaska

My comments: Can't believe I read a Nora Roberts, swore I never would.  Read for a January Bookgirls Challenge.  Dragged on and on...much too long.  The setting, Lunacy, Alaska, was definitely cool.  Most was in the winter, then quickly moved through spring to summer.  Many characters, you either hated them or loved them.

Goodreads synopsis:  As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite the name, Lunacy provides a balm for Nate's shattered soul—and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights...

But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And his discovery will threaten the new life—and the new love—that he has finally found for himself.