At the same time, she starts remembering bits and pieces of her kidnapping, which cause her to experience fear and paranoia, and prevent her from the full recovery she desperately needs. She also finds out that she booked herself a room at a halfway house for women rather than the historic inn she assumed she was, but she takes some comfort in knowing these women aren't violent felons, and the house is run under the watchful eye of Viola, a tough, take-no-prisoners-type of woman.Īs she settles in, she finds that the fickle nature of the weather takes some getting used to, but she enjoys the relative isolation the town provides her. When she arrives in Benedict she discovers that a lot of people come to Alaska to run away from something, so while her presence drums up some curiosity, she probably fits in better than she would in most places. It seems like the best solution, at least until the police find the suspect. So when she's (mostly) well enough, she decides she's going to run as far away as possible-to the remote town of Benedict, Alaska. But with her kidnapper still at large, she worries how she can live the rest of her life without being afraid and looking over her shoulder every minute. She is able to escape the van one day but sustains a brain injury in the process. She must overcome her fear and the ways her kidnapper has restrained her to escape, or she'll face certain death, if not worse before that.
But when she is kidnapped and held captive in a van for three days, everything changes. There are times she really can't believe a woman who started out a secretary to her police chief grandfather in Missouri could be a best-selling author. That was definitely one of the characteristics that led me to pick up Paige Shelton's new mystery, Thin Ice, but boy, it's so much more than just its setting.īeth Rivers is known to the world as best-selling thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild. It doesn't matter what kind of book-the imagery of the wilderness (and wildness), even the danger posed by the elements both animal and meteorological fascinate me. I've commented before just how much I love books set in Alaska. Beth Rivers is known to the world as best-selling thriller author Eliza I'm somewhere between 4 and 4.5 stars. That was definitely one of the characteristics that led me to pick up Paige Shelton's new mystery, Thin Ice, but boy, it's so much more than just its setting. Can she get back to normal, will she ever truly feel safe, and can she help solve the local mystery, if only so she doesn't have to think about her own?. Could the death of Linda Rafferty have anything to do with her horror at the hands of Levi Brooks?Īs Beth navigates her way through the wilds of her new home, her memories of her time in the van are coming back, replaying the terror and the fear-and threatening to keep her from healing, from reclaiming her old life again. That is, until she's told about a local death that's a suspected murder. Cold and remote, Alaska seems tailor-made for her to hideout.īeth's new home in Alaska is sparsely populated with people who all seem to be running or hiding from something, and though she accidentally booked a room at a halfway house, she feels safer than she's felt since Levi took her. After being held in a van for three days by her kidnapper, Levi Brooks, Beth managed to escape, and until he is captured, she's got to get away. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic's obsession. Cold and remote, Alask Beth Rivers is on the run - she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Beth Rivers is on the run - she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe.
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