A dead man rides a chairlift at the popular ski resort on Whistler Mountain. Follow Hunter Rayne as he gets involved in a murder investigation. Although the third in the series, Sea to Sky can be read as a stand-alone. This story is set way back in 1997, so make allowances for the changes in technology that people take for granted nowadays. Later on in this story Hunter goes into a public library to obtain information that today can be grabbed with a few taps on a smartphone anywhere in the world. On the trucking side there are no digital tachographs, telematics or vehicle tracking.
Sea to Sky is a mystery surrounding the private life of Hunter. This all makes for a very relaxed cosy murder mystery. There are bits of relationships that progressed from books one and two, a little romance, some trucking with the usual challenges plus the investigation to find the chairlift killer.
The pace of this novel was quite slow and laboured over the characters from the earlier books and those surrounding the chairlift killer. There were odd bits of dialogue to make you smile, for example…
“If you would just shut the heck up for five seconds and let me speak, woman!” boomed Sorry. “Sasha, Bruno. Say hello to the big lady.” The two kids looked up briefly from petting Peterbilt and said in unison “Hello, big lady.” One was a little girl about seven years old, the other a little boy of about five.
...The story plodded along with gentle and very minor sub plots. Apart from the actual scenes of the chairlift murder and how the victim was killed, nothing else was exciting or gripping in this story.
I found Sea to Sky a relaxing read to simply roll along with - better than a daily newspaper but nothing to recommend to a friend. Sea to Sky is an OKAY 3 star read but nowhere near as good as the previous novel called Ice on the Grapevine.
Sea to Sky was written in 2012 and is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook.
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