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2000s: on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery
Ragged Lake
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While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter’s cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered.
An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family’s murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing lodge as he investigates the area with his two junior officers. Before long, he is fighting not only to solve the crime but also to stay alive and protect the few innocents left living in the desolate woods.
Travel Guide
The Northern Divide
The Northern Divide
The Northern Divide is also known as the Laurentian Divide and effectively divides the flow of water of eastern and southern Canada from those of the northern Midwestern United States.
It separates the river systems that flow northwards to the Arctic Ocean and Hudson Bay from the south flowing ones to the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
Starting from the Great Divide at Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park in Montana, it “ends” at Cape Chidley on the Labrador Sea.
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
First thing which caught my eye was that cover – and it gets even spookier and more claustrophobic inside. Ragged lake – even the title has sharp edges and the setting is just perfect for some murder mystery
It’s quite a unique premise this as well – biker criminals are in the background and a very isolating and remote setting make for a very explosive premise. There’s something about isolated and inward looking villages and communities which fascinates me and this had an added edge – The Northern Divide is very real but as the author states the places in the book are not real – imagine if they were? Actually best not to.
There is a lot of abandonment in this novel , a settlement where time seems to have forgotten the world it’s cut itself off from. Winter storms, tree-markers, an old mill town…the writing is as crisp as that snow and throughout there is that dreadful sense of foreboding.
Ron Corbett has more than set the scene here and I for one am already waiting for his next one
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Ragged Lake
Author/Guide Ron Corbett Destination: Rocky Mountains, Montana Departure Time: 2000s
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