City Under One Roof - Iris Yamashita
Release Date: January 10, 2023
When body parts wash up on shore in a small, isolated Alaskan town, Anchorage detective Cara Kennedy travels there to look into the situation. When the tunnel that is the only entrance/exit to the town is closed due to bad weather, she teams up with the local sheriff and his assistant to investigate. Along the way, she encounters the idiosyncratic residents of the town who all live in the same building “under one roof.” Many of them have reasons they chose to live in such a secluded and harsh place. Aside from what they may be hiding, are they all in danger?
Told from three points of view, this atmospheric tale reflects the claustrophobic feeling from living so close together and traversing the underground tunnels to get any place…not to mention the bitter cold and blizzard conditions. You just might want to wrap up in a cozy blanket when you read this book.
I learned a bit about Alaska, although I didn’t check the accuracy of some of the facts. It took a while to get to the climax and then I thought the denouement left some things not fully resolved. Still it was a solid debut novel by the screen writer Iris Yamashita who wrote Letters from Iwo Jima.
Thanks to #netgalley and #berkeleypublishinggroup for the ARC
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