Review: Shattered

"When her prodigal brother's return to Yancey, Alaska, is shattered by his arrest for murder, Piper McKenna is determined to protect him..."

For some reason, I don't read and review a lot of mystery or crime drama, but this book from Bethany House caught my eye.  I'm not going to lie when I tell you I read it in three days...which isn't bad considering my five-month old isn't too keen on letting me sit down with a book for any period of time.

Shattered is the second in the Alaskan Courage series by Dani Pettrey; I hadn't read the first book, but enough back story was provided so that I wasn't confused throughout this one.  There are a few times when the reader wonders if something alluded to was explained in the first book, but it's not distracting enough to where you must read the first book in order to fully understand the story of Shattered.

The book focuses on a family of siblings that have lost their parents (think Party of Five, but with a rugged outdoors twist); when the youngest brother returns for a ski competition and is arrested for murder, the other siblings are determined to prove his innocence, with or without the help of their lifelong friend Landon, who just happens to be the Deputy of Yancey.  Shattered will leave you guessing until the very end- this one is definitely a page-turner!

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