
COMING MAY 26, 2026!
Anchorage Homicide Detective DeHavilland Beans returns to his hometown of Galena, Alaska, in this sequel to Cold to the Touch.
In Too Deep to Cross, an officer-involved shooting and the discovery of a weather-worn artificial leg bring Anchorage Homicide Detective DeHavilland Beans back to his Yukon River hometown – and a long-cold missing person case evolves into a murder investigation. Meanwhile, in the San Francisco Bay area to clean out her parents’ home, Beans’ mother Mari conducts and investigation of her own, digging into the past, unearthing long-buried family secrets.
In a timeframe spanning World War II to present day and told from multiple points of view, Too Deep to Cross is the sequel to Edgar Award-nominated mystery/thriller Cold to the Touch and again features half-Japanese, half-Irish/Athabascan police detective DeHavilland Beans.
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In the Edgar Award-nominated thriller Cold to the Touch, the predator-ravaged body of a scantily clad barista appears on the once pristine Alaskan snow. Anchorage Homicide Detective DeHavilland Beans is devastated to recognize the frozen corpse of the young half-Native Alaskan college student who served him coffee every morning. Beans is determined to solve her murder – but can he do it before the killer strikes again?

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