Book Reviews of Northern Lights

Nora Roberts like to get into a lot of detail. This book really makes you believe that you are in Alaska. A shieff from the lower 48 comes to find himself and solve an 14 year old murder.

Nora Roberts flies us into Lunacy, Alaska, population 506, and into a colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who find love-- and redemption.

I enjoyed this book

Still reeling from the death of his partner, Officer Nate Burke takes a job as sheriff of a small town in Alaska. Nate soon meets the colorful town's people, including Charlene, a serious man-eater who runs the town's only hotel, and her daughter Meg, a sexy pilot. Nate and Meg are soon drawn together when three college students go missing while mountain climbing. While the boys are soon found alive, Nate gets a big surprise when a frozen body was also found with an ax in chest.

I wasn't expecting this book to be so good. The descriptions of Alaska and the town's people are so real, you feel like you're there with them. Great story!

I live in Alaska, so I was prepared to be unimpressed by a 'cheechako's' portrayal of life here--in spite of the fact that it's Nora Roberts and I love nearly everything she's ever written. I was pleasantly surprised, however; she clearly did her research, and she describes Alaska and our unique outlook on life very accurately.

I also love the heroine--I kept thinking of the character Maggie (Janine Turner) from Northern Exposure...and yes, Alaskans really do love their dogs that much! :)

Great story line, keeps you interested till the very end!

One of my favorite Nora Roberts novels, set in the wilds of Alaska.

Nate Burke accepts a job as Police chief in Luncacy, Alaska, thinking this is going to be an easy and relatively quiet job. Soon a murder and a new romance is making his quiet job very hectic. An excellent book that will having you turning pages very quickly.

Lunacy is Nate Burke's lst chance. As a Baltimore cop, he watches his partner die and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as chief of police in this tiny, remote town where darkness falls by midafternoon and tempertatures plunge to zero and below, will bring some kind of solace.
Meg Galloway, born and raised here, is used to being alone. She was still a young girl when her father disappeared, and she's learned to be independent, flying her small plane, living on the outskirts with just her huskies for company.
Now things in Lunacy are heating up. An unsolved crime threatens his new life and love. Nate believes a killer is still walking the snowy streets of Lunacy.

Lunacy is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he watched his partner die - and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as chief of police in this tiny, remote town, where darkness falls by midafternoon and temperatures plunge to zero and below, will bring some kind of solace. It isn't as if he had anywhere else to go.
Aside from sorting out a run-in between a couple of motor vehicles and a moose - and pulling apart two brothers who are beating each other silly over a disagreement about John Wayne - Nate's first weeks on the job are relatively quiet. But as he wonders whether this was all a big mistake, an unexpected kiss on New Year's Eve under the brilliant northern lights of the Alaska sky lifts his sprit - and convinces him to stay just a little longer.
Meg Galloway, born and raised here, is used to being alone. She was still a young girl when her father disappeared, and she's learned to be independent, flying her small plane, living on the outskirts with just her huskies for company. But after her New Year's kiss with the chief of police, she allows herself to give in to passion. She doesn't want commitment-yet there's something about Nate's sad eyes that gets under her skin, and warms her frozen heart.
And now, things in Lunacy are heating up. Because years ago, on one of the majestic mountains that shadow the town, a crime occurred that is unsolved to this day - and Nate suspects that a killer still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will bring out the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface - as well as the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And it will threaten the new life, and the new love, that he has finally found for himself.
Nora Roberts at her best. Couldn't put this book down!!!

Easy read!

The book started out slow, which frightened me a little since it was so long, but about half way through the plot twists started to get me going. Also, there were a very interesting group of characters. It was well written and made for a good read.

Great book, I would read again.

Fun read. Great setting.

Another awesome book from Nora.

Another great book by Nora Roberts.

Great Roberts. I'm a big fan and never disappointed!

Another good Nora Roberts book. Small town murder with lots of twists and turns.

Good book - never dissapointed w/ Roberts.

Book is in good condition with its cover

Fast read - enjoyed it tremendously. Story of a cop that moves to Alaska and ends up solving a 16 year-old murder.

This is a fun romance that makes me want to go to Alaska! During the summer of course! I really love Nora Roberts ability to write about romance and suspense intertwined. It keeps your interest from the moment you begin, I read it in a weekend!

This book is about 2 lonely souls who find love and redemption in Lunacy, Alaska.....

Great Book

For fans of Nora Roberts. A good who-done-it with a romance to boot!

The romance side of the story lacked "romance", but the mystery was good.

One of Nora Roberts' best books ........... and I've read a lot of them!

Great book, good mystery story.

It's great!

Reliable author with good style...ultimate bedtime read.

A great Nora book. Set in Alaska.

Good murder mystery and great love story. Reading about Alaska made me feel cold!

It's Nora Roberts...what else needs to be said! Good storyline...keeps your interest.

About a retired cop who moves to Alaska to get away from a bad experience in a big city only to become chief of a tiny remote town. He falls in love with a lady pilot and they endeavor to solve an old crime believing the killer still lives in their town.

Not bad at all. Bush pilot and a back east cop comes to Lunacy Alaska to be chief of police and uncovers a twenty year old murder. Kept me up until one in the morning reading it.

Geat novel with romance, and mystery mixed. Youd on't know where it is leading till the very end.

(Cover)Nora Roberts flies us into Lunancy Alaska, population 506, and into a colorful, compelling novel about two lonely souls who find love-and redemption. Lunancy is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he watched his partner die-and the guilt still haunts him. Maybe serving as cheif of police...will find him some solace.
Meg Galloway born and raised here is used to being alone....she's learned to be independent, flying her small plane, living on the outskirts with just her huskies for company. But after her New Year's kiss with the chief of police, she allows herself to give into passion....And now things in Lunancy are heating up. Because years ago a crime occurred that is unsolved to this day...Nate suspects that a killer still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will bring out the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface...And it will threaten the new life, and the new love, that he has finally found for himself.

A slow start to this one, but Nora never dissapoints!

I really liked this book, I usually stick to historical romances, so i was surprised it was able to "grab" me. This is the one that opened me to trying to read more contemprary romances!

Roberts shines again with a nuanced tale of the Alaskan wilderness and the appealing eccentrics who cluster there. Former Baltimore cop Nate Burke accepts the unlikely post of police chief of Lunacy, Alaska (pop. 506), to stave off the depression caused by divorce and the traumatic death of his partner, for which he holds himself partly responsible. His early days in the close-knit town are quiet except for minor disturbances and a dalliance with a feisty bush pilot, Meg Galloway. Then Meg's father, who disappeared 16 years before, is found frozen in a remote mountain cave, an ice ax in his chest. The discovery that Pat Galloway was murdered—most likely by a local—shakes up the town and drives his murderer to commit a second, cover-up killing. Though state authorities dismiss that death as suicide, Nate pursues it as a crime—a decision that puts him at odds with many outspoken Lunatics, as the townspeople call themselves. With quiet inexorability he fields the flak, uncovers long-forgotten events and finds a tough but loving balance with the fiercely independent Meg. Though billed as romantic suspense, the novel forsakes artificial genre conventions in favor of a wry, affectionate look at community bonds, generational wounds and soul-testing landscapes. The result is a richly textured novel that captures the intimacy of smalltown police work, the prickliness of the pioneer spirit and the paradox of a setting at once intimate and expansive, welcoming and hostile, indisputably American and yet profoundly exotic to those in the Lower 48.

Great book, I hope she writes more using the characters!

Nora Roberts flies us into Lunancy, alaska and into a colorful compelling new noval about two lonely souls who gfind love and redemption. Very good book.

loved it!!

really enjoyed this story about transplanted cop from lower fortyeight trying to be good cop in wilderness. surprising twists

great adventure and romance

I love Nora Roberts and this one doesn't let you down. Great read!!

I enjoyed this book. It was the first Nora Roberts that I have read. The setting was interesting -- Alaska.

Looks like new, told this is another great one by the master!

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