Aaron Stander's characters and setting draw me in every book. The area of Michigan that the book is set in makes me want to pack up and move. Ray Elkins and the rest of the characters would be ideal neighbors.This books mystery had me fooled from the beginning. I could not figure out the connecti...
I loved Aaron Stander's voice.I loved his characters...though there were a few too many.I would almost volunteer to re-edit this for Aaron...to make it pop...which it easily could do. There are too many scenes that don't add to the plot...too much in-the-head pondering for the amount of action. T...
Sorta fun to read this while spending time in the Michigan Upper Peninsula. Some of the details about Michigan, kayaking and gourmet treats are fun and the characters have some interesting quirkiness but the storyline was not great. Nothing to encourage me to read any more of his writing. My ...
Ray, his back to her, was busily making lists and adding to a complicated diagram with dry-erase markers on a large whiteboard mounted below the windows. He was using a variety of colors, and she could see that he had created a key for the colors on the right-hand side of the board. She cleared h...
“You’re in rather late today,” observed Sue. Ray was working at his computer. He looked up at her and smiled. “I seldom beat you to the office, and never by two or three hours,” she continued. “Were you off on some special investigation, perhaps checking on the steelhead in a local stream while...
Stephanie, in denim shorts and a T-shirt, was on her hands and knees planting mums in a flower bed on the perimeter of their back deck. So as not to startle her, Elkins cleared his throat as he passed near her. She looked up. “I was wondering when we would see you. We heard a couple of hours ago....
Ray slowly rolled through the three-block long business district of the Harbor Village. Most of the brick buildings lining both sides of the street were constructed after the great fire of 1906. Once a thriving mercantile hub for farmers, lumbermen, and sailors, the stores now catered to the tour...
Betty’s father put up the money for the building and liquor license. Six years and two children later, John left her—went off to start a new life in Grand Rapids with a woman he had met in a Traverse City bar. Jack Grochoski had wanted to be in the military when he graduated from Fordson High in ...