Praise for The Boy Who Cried Bear
“The Boy Who Cried Bear skillfully melds a village mystery with a high adventure and acutely explores its numerous characters.” –Shelf Awareness
“Armstrong’s new venture continues her Rockton tradition.”—Kirkus Reviews
“For fans of procedurals with a unique twist!”—Book Riot
“Kelley Armstrong’s Haven’s Rock series keeps getting better and better. The Boy Who Cried Bear, the second book in the series, has a significant mystery along with plenty of suspense and atmosphere that keeps readers rapidly turning the pages.”—Mystery and Suspense Magazine
“Few mystery series have enthralled me as completely as Kelley Armstrong's books set in the Canadian Yukon wilderness…This new 'town' is going to take us on quite an exciting ride, so get in at the start and buckle up. Armstrong is sure to provide many wild animals, strange residents, adorable dog antics and, of course, murders to solve."—Bookreporter
“Evocative… There is a kindness and sense of the underlying good of people that permeates Casey's musings throughout the series, in spite of the harshness of the setting and the fact that the books always involve pain, danger, and evil. The plotting is complex and engaging, and the pace picks up to a blistering speed at the end.”—Reviewing the Evidence
2023-12-16
A couple continues their quest to provide sanctuary to people under threat.
When the remote Yukon village of Rockton disbands, Sheriff Eric Dalton and Detective Casey Duncan vow to continue its mission of offering protection to people who need to disappear for a while. Now they serve as de facto managers of Haven’s Rock, an equally protective shelter whose residents they carefully vet with the help of Émilie, a shadowy benefactor with deep roots in the intelligence community. One change the couple adopts is to open Haven’s Rock to families as well as individuals. That’s how Dana and her sons, Carson and Max, join the community after the U.S. witness protection program failed to prevent her husband from being killed. Teenage Carson is quiet and brooding, but Max is a lively 10-year-old with an equally lively imagination. But is it his imagination that leads him to report seeing a bear following the villagers as they trek through the woods? Since Dalton and Casey can’t take chances, they organize a hunt, which becomes more urgent when Max disappears. Security guards from a nearby mining operation report sightings of a wild forest man dressed in a bearskin. Could Max be the victim of an animal attack, or has he been lured away by something more sinister? Tensions mount as Dana blames her fellow residents for failing to protect Max, and Dalton and Casey must struggle to prove that their new community can be a safe haven for families.
Stronger on suspense than puzzlement, Armstrong’s new venture continues her Rockton tradition.
