Too Deep To Cross

“Hakoda skillfully weaves an intricate web of family secrets and well-hidden local crimes in this gripping Alaskan mystery.”

“Small town secrets burrow deep. When they span generations, they become deadly. Too Deep to Cross is gripping, and will keep you turning pages well into the night. When a link to the past surfaces, everyone’s a suspect in this relentless thriller.”

“From a handgun in a piano to a sabotaged floatplane, Kerri Hakoda employs quirky images and fiercely vivid incidents to immerse the reader in the sometimes-violent Alaskan bush lifestyle. Too Deep to Cross moves like an angry grizzly thundering across the tundra.”

“TOO DEEP TO CROSS is a smart and fun mystery that begins with a long-lost prosthetic leg, but soon becomes a multi-layered, multigenerational story about the bonds of community, the weight of history, and the kind of secrets that upend lives and ripple through time. With her trademark wit and surprising twists, Kerri Hakoda brilliantly captures the colorful isolation of this remote Alaskan town, as well as the long shadows of Japanese internment. I didn’t want this lovely book to end!”

“Family secrets rise from the icy depths of Galena, Alaska, in Kerri Hakoda’s Edgar Award-nominated series featuring DeHavilland Beans, who returns to his rural Yukon hometown to solve a murder after being placed on leave from his work as an Anchorage police detective. His mother, meanwhile, leaves Galena for California to help clean out a family home, only to learn disturbing truths involving her own Japanese American ancestors. With scenes from 2007 Galena, the World War II detention center of Minidoka in Idaho, and contemporary Silicon Valley, Hakoda expertly immerses her readers into worlds rarely depicted in literature. A most necessary story wrapped in a mystery that will keep you turning the pages.”