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Ragged Lake
Written by Ron Corbett
Narrated by Graham Rowat
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
As the history of a murdered family is pieced together, Detective Frank Yakabuski learns something criminal has been happening at Ragged Lake, with roots going back decades . . . The debut in a page-turning trilogy from award-winning writer Ron Corbett. Gruesome murders, a northern secret, and a buried past While working one afternoon on the Northern Divide, a young tree-marker makes a grisly discovery: in a squatter's cabin near an old mill town, a family has been murdered. An army vet coming off a successful turn leading a task force that took down infamous biker criminals, Detective Frank Yakabuski arrives in Ragged Lake, a nearly abandoned village, to solve the family's murder. But no one is willing to talk. With a winter storm coming, Yakabuski sequesters the locals in a fishing lodge as he investigates the area with his two junior officers. Before long, he is fighting not only to solve the crime but also to stay alive and protect the few innocents left living in the desolate woods. A richly atmospheric mystery with sweeping backdrops, explosive action, and memorable villains, Ragged Lake will keep you guessing - about the violent crime, the nature of family, and secret deeds done long ago on abandoned frontiers.
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Reviews for Ragged Lake
Rating: 3.333333311111111 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The strongest character in Ragged Lake is the bleak, remote, and frozen woods of the Northern Divide. The land has helped to shape the people living there into self-sufficient individuals who are used to doing for themselves and keeping what they know to themselves. The man sent to investigate the murders, Frank Yakabuski, is a big man who knows how to handle himself. After taking one look, very few people want to mess with him. As a lead investigator, I found him to be a bit inconsistent. Sometimes he wouldn't take risks because they were dangerous and unlikely to succeed, yet at others, he took equally dangerous risks that also had very little chance of success. I have to admit that I found it difficult to warm up to him or any of the other characters.The pace of the book is a bit uneven, mainly due to some digressions that--although crucial to the plot-- could've been more smoothly introduced. The strongest parts of the book are the setting, which I mentioned earlier, and the mystery itself, which kept me guessing at motives throughout. However, the body count in Ragged Lake was much too high for my liking. If I'd known one major detail (which is left out of the synopsis), I probably would not have chosen to read the book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The focus and strength of this book is largely the setting. Corbett shows us the mostly abandoned, snow-covered, unforgiving land. He does such a great job of placing us in this setting that I found myself chilled, despite sitting here in Florida where the temperature was hovering near 90. Pacing is slow up to the last quarter, when everything starts to come together (or unravel). The focus on setting and the history of the land often overshadows the murders and investigation. We also spend a lot of time with Yakabuski reflecting back to his childhood and to his time in the military. Some of the details in these lengthy passages eventually play into the present events, but it's a long, circuitous route getting there. Then we have the murdered woman's journal interjected throughout. Dozens of pages of this journal are plunked into several different sections of the book. We learn her entire life history through this journal. Granted, her story on its own is interesting and would have been compelling had she been the focus in real time. But, shared this way, it only served as a disconnect from the current timeline. Too much of the story takes place in other characters' past, and I lost the intensity and immediacy of the actual investigation. When we finally get to the action nearing the end, I found it difficult to like or relate to Yakabuski. He seems to have no problem placing innocent people at risk so that he can register a win by capturing the bad guys. At the end, we have a little thread left dangling, which I assume will continue on in the next book. Despite that, this book does have a solid ending on its own.*I received an advance copy from the publisher, via Amazon Vine, in exchange for my honest review.*