So Sure Of Death

Fire and Ice, the first Liam Campbell mystery, was named by Library Journal as Best Mystery of 1998. Now Campbell is back to uncover the icy heart of a deadly family secret....
Three relatively-quiet months have passed since Trooper Liam Campbell was assigned to the remote post of Newenham. It all changes when a local fishing boat is discovered scuttled and adrift its crew of seven dead in circumstances that can't be accidental and Wy stumbles into a murder scene at an archaeological dig. Cultures collide as the community must deal with too many outside distractions.
"There is a lot of aviation in the Liam Campbell novels, partly because one of the main characters is a Bush pilot, and partly because the books are set in Alaska. Alaska has six times more pilots per capita than anywhere else in the world; one out of every sixty-four residents has a pilot’s license. My father was one of them. He was helping me build a raised bed garden in my back yard in Anchorage when a Cessna 206 roared overhead, taking off from Lake Hood at way too much power. He looked disapproving and said, “Now, there is the sound of someone not flying his own plane.” I pointed my finger at him and said, “You just wrote the first line of my next book.”