In the Shadow of the Glacier

Vicki Delany
Poisoned Pen Press (2007)
ISBN 97815905804484
Reviewed by AJ Cooper for Reader Views (5/07)

“In the Shadow of the Glacier” revolves around a murder in an alley in a mountainous community in British Columbia that relies on tourism. Reginald Montgomery wants to build a resort that most of the community does not want for a number of reasons. It will impact the environment and bring tourists too close to wildlife. He also wants to build a memorial to draft dodgers from the Vietnam War.  Constable Molly Smith responds to an alley behind a restaurant and discovers the dead body of Reginald Montgomery, a transplant from America.

Constable Smith is assigned to help Detective Sergeant John Winters with his investigation of the murder. There are no witnesses that they can find, and Winters is frustrated working with Smith because she is so green and makes more mistakes than he can count. While all of this is going on, Smith is trying to help her best friend Christa with an unwanted admirer.

Lucky Smith is fighting for the memorial and is not happy that her daughter Molly is a police officer. Molly lives at home with her parents and hears from her Mom about all of the controversy with the memorial and the lodge. Molly is so involved with the murder investigation she neglects her friend and Christa ends up in the hospital over it. Fights break out and protests break out causing turmoil throughout the town.

I really enjoyed “In the Shadow of the Glacier” and would recommend it to anyone interested in a good mystery. It kept me guessing the whole time who was the killer. There was a lot of activity in the book but it kept the book interesting and the story line flowed well. I would recommend this book to family and friends. It also lent an interesting view on war protesters. I may not be in agreement with it, but it certainly gave me a different view of how other countries recognize those that did not fight.

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