New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction. Murder at Haven's Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start... with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins.

Haven’s Rock, Yukon. Population: 0

Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven’s Rock isn’t the first town of this kind, something detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, know first-hand. They met in the original town of Rockton. But greed and deception led the couple to financing a new refuge for those in need. This time around, they get to decide which applicants are approved for residency.

There’s only one rule in Haven’s Rock: stay out of the forest. When two of the town's construction crew members break it and go missing, Casey and Eric are called in ahead of schedule to track them down. When a body is discovered, well-hidden with evidence of foul play, Casey and Eric must find out what happened to the dead woman, and locate those still missing. The longer Casey and Eric don’t know what happened, the more danger everyone is in.

Hidden in the Yukon a mysterious, secret town is being built. When two of the workers disappear, owners Casey Duncan and her husband Eric Dalton arrive early to investigate. A body is found, clearly the victim of foul play, and there is still the search for those missing while keeping the true nature of the town secret from the remaining workers.

This is a spin-off from another of Ms Armstrong’s series but it can be read without having read the prior series. That said, I will also say it would be helpful to the reader picking up book one of a series if there was a more straightforward explanation of just why this town is so secretive. Being most familiar with Ms Armstrong’s fantasy books I seriously kept expecting our character to be some sort of shapeshifters but this is a pretty straight-forward mystery series.

I enjoyed the characters, the solution to the mystery was not obvious until well close to the end of the book. We end with a cliff hanger of future trouble to come so I will be on the lookout for book two in this series. In the meantime I will go look up the Rockton series and catch up on the pasts of these characters and how they all got to Haven’s rock. Recommended. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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