ELIZABETH GODDARD
Stats: Trade paperback, Revell, 2024.
How acquired: Revell Reads Blogger Program
(Goodreads synopsis below.)
My thoughts: This third book in the Missing in Alaska series didn’t capture me quite the way the first two books did, and I’m still not really sure why that is. I think that I just wasn’t really drawn to Nolan, the hero. Compared to the heroes of the first two books, he was just a little...bland.
Ivy has traveled from Florida to Alaska in search of a long lost Jack London manuscript. Ivy is a former FBI agent who left the FBI to work in the family business after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She has been blackmailed into locating the manuscript by her deceased father’s old business partner, who has threatened to reveal a secret about her father to her mother. Ivy is desperate to find the manuscript, desperate to keep her mother from learning this secret and I struggled a little with this aspect of the story. Her mother doesn’t have a lot of time left, and instead of spending that time with her Ivy is racing around the Alaskan wilderness. Of course we, the reader, don’t learn the secret until the very end of the book, but a former FBI agent allowing herself to be blackmailed? It just didn’t sit right with me.
Well, I guess I do actually know why the book didn’t quite capture me the way the first two did! Despite all of the above, the narrative is wonderfully written, as Ms. Goddard’s writing always is, and her descriptions of the Alaskan wilderness are evocative. And of course I did get very caught up in the story, while also a little worried about Nolan and Ivy getting their happily ever after. I don’t know if there will be a fourth book, but if so I will definitely want to read it.
*Received via the Revell Reads Blogger Program and voluntarily reviewed*
Synopsis from Goodreads:
At the behest of her ailing mother, former FBI special agent turned rare-book collector Ivy Elliott arrives in Alaska to secure an unpublished Jack London manuscript kept secreted away for decades. But when she arrives, she learns the manuscript is gone--taken by the granddaughter of the woman who possessed it. Ivy sets off in pursuit, not just to save the manuscript but to save the vulnerable girl, who was previously trafficked and has no idea what she's getting herself into.
Joining forces with Alaska State Trooper Nolan Long, Ivy must battle a blizzard, sabotage, and the worst of an Alaskan winter as the search goes on. But every answer they find only raises more questions--and the danger to their lives and to the missing girl may only be the tip of the iceberg.
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