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    Spring Upon a Crime
    Winter Takes All
    Ebook series2 titles

    A Seattle Wilderness Mystery Series

    By ML Erdahl

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    About this series

    Wilderness guide Crystal Rainey leads a group of college students to a private campground amidst the awe-inspiring Olympic Rain Forest. The excursion is ruined when the charming hostess Roxie is discovered standing over the land owner's body, murder weapon in hand.

    Enlisted to investigate the crime to absolve her friend, Crystal descends on the quiet city of Forks to find loggers, developers, and eco-protesters circling the property, intent on either exploiting or protecting the bastion of old-growth forest. The list of suspects is intimidating. Can Crystal find answers in a community determined to keep her in the dark?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Wild Rose Press
    Release dateOct 23, 2019
    Spring Upon a Crime
    Winter Takes All

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 1

      Winter Takes All
      Winter Takes All

      Winter Takes All

      ML Erdahl
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      Crystal Rainey is aghast when she realizes her new year's resolutions haven't changed one whit from the previous year. Wanting to escape a future as dreary as a Pacific Northwest winter, she walks out on her dead-end office job, despite her tenuous savings account. Stumbling across a job opening posted by a wilderness guide outfit, an intrigued Crystal bluffs her way into the position. With handsome fellow guide, the stalwart Conner Oakes, she leads a corporate retreat on a snowshoe hike to a majestic alpine chalet. But when the company's detestable owner turns up dead in the snow, she fears her new life and budding romance slipping away. She finally has something worth fighting for and is determined to solve the murder and grab her chance at happiness before it's too late.

      Crystal Rainey is aghast when she realizes her new year's resolutions haven't changed one whit from the previous year. Wanting to escape a future as dreary as a Pacific Northwest winter, she walks out on her dead-end office job, despite her tenuous savings account. Stumbling across a job opening posted by a wilderness guide outfit, an intrigued Crystal bluffs her way into the position. With handsome fellow guide, the stalwart Conner Oakes, she leads a corporate retreat on a snowshoe hike to a majestic alpine chalet. But when the company's detestable owner turns up dead in the snow, she fears her new life and budding romance slipping away. She finally has something worth fighting for and is determined to solve the murder and grab her chance at happiness before it's too late.

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      Spring Upon a Crime
      Spring Upon a Crime

      Spring Upon a Crime

      ML Erdahl
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      Wilderness guide Crystal Rainey leads a group of college students to a private campground amidst the awe-inspiring Olympic Rain Forest. The excursion is ruined when the charming hostess Roxie is discovered standing over the land owner's body, murder weapon in hand. Enlisted to investigate the crime to absolve her friend, Crystal descends on the quiet city of Forks to find loggers, developers, and eco-protesters circling the property, intent on either exploiting or protecting the bastion of old-growth forest. The list of suspects is intimidating. Can Crystal find answers in a community determined to keep her in the dark?

      Wilderness guide Crystal Rainey leads a group of college students to a private campground amidst the awe-inspiring Olympic Rain Forest. The excursion is ruined when the charming hostess Roxie is discovered standing over the land owner's body, murder weapon in hand. Enlisted to investigate the crime to absolve her friend, Crystal descends on the quiet city of Forks to find loggers, developers, and eco-protesters circling the property, intent on either exploiting or protecting the bastion of old-growth forest. The list of suspects is intimidating. Can Crystal find answers in a community determined to keep her in the dark?

    Author

    ML Erdahl

    ML Erdahl lives amidst the trees of the Pacific Northwest, where he pens humorous cozy mystery novels set in the wilderness he has spent his lifetime exploring. The only thing slowing him down is when his adorable rescue dogs, Skip and Daisy, demand to be pet and cuddled on his lap while he types. When he’s not working away in front of a computer, you can find him gardening, hiking, or grumbling to his wife, Emily, about the perpetual Northwest winter rain that prevents him from going outside.

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    • 4/5
      This series stars Crystal, a Seattle woman who is starting a new job as a wilderness guide. When a man dies on her first trip, she is desperate to solve his murder and save her job.

      Here’s what I enjoyed about this book:

      -Sense of Place - ML includes specific details about Seattle, from neighborhoods to restaurants to significant nature spots. I really had a clear sense of the book’s setting. Also, the wilderness sounds beautiful. I have read a few books set in Washington this month. I think the Pacific Northwest is calling me!

      -A Budding Relationship that is Supportive, not Antagonistic - Cozy mystery fans know the common trope of the main character’s love interest being a police officer and/or being angry that she is sleuthing. In this book, Crystal’s new beau is helping her and she is honest with him about what she is doing. This was a refreshing change, and their relationship was really cute!

      -Sympathetic main character - Sometimes in cozy mysteries I just shake my head at the main character’s antics. But in this book, I really felt for Crystal. She has spent years in a miserable job and desperately wants to do something that fuels her passion. Her emotions came across as authentic and relatable.

      In the first half of the book, I was a little bit confused because instead of being in chronological order, some major events were told as flashbacks while a character relayed info to another character. I didn’t see the purpose of this technique.