Sisters of the midnight sun : a murder in Arctic Alaska / Rebecca Wright Stevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright Stevens, Rebecca, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murder--Alaska--History--20th century.

Murder.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Alaska--History--20th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Counterpoint edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Counterpoint, 2026.

Summary:

"Rebecca Wright Stevens is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik on Alaska's North Slope, an oil-rich area the size of Wyoming where the Inupiat community holds great cultural, political, and economic power.Though she'll always be a tanik--an outsider--she works hard to gain the trust and friendship of the folks who call this singular place home. When two well-known sisters, Bernice and Wanda Ipalook, are found murdered, Stevens is tasked with representing Amos Lane, a drifter on the short-list of murder suspects. Criminal charges are looming. But this is summer in northern Alaska, the season of the midnight sun, when twenty-four-hour sunlight makes it difficult for witnesses to confirm the time--or even the day--they last saw the sisters, Amos, or anyone else. Stevens must navigate an unreliable client, a prosecution willing to entrap her to get a conviction, a budding romance, and a community that believes Amos might deserve a different form of justice from what the tanik legal system can provide"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781640097711

1640097716

OCLC:

1603461992

Publisher Number:

90104776676