I’ll refrain from comment until I know what the hell I’m talking about, and I would suggest you all do the same.” “I am not going to address the nature of the accusation further. The citizens pepper Casey with questions, questions she has no intention of answering.
Nevertheless, someone revealed Anders’s past in a sign taped high on a pole. A premise of life is that what happened before you arrived in the Yukon town stays secret. Shut down doesn’t mean replacing the people who run things in Rockton, it means wipe Rockton off the map (which is ironic, considering it’s impossible to find Rockton on a map).Ĭasey Duncan is dealing with a major kerfuffle: Will Anders, her deputy, stands accused of “murdering his superior officers,” before he arrived in Rockton. The folks that run things have learned to live with the threats of impending disaster, specifically, that the off-site council will shut them down. The Sword of Damocles has been suspended over the off-radar community of Rockton for quite some time. Now, she and the town sheriff, Eric Dalton, are partners in every respect, professional and personal. No one gets in or out without the council’s permission.Ĭasey got in by virtue of being a police detective at a time when Rockton desperately needed a homicide investigator. Prospective residents are heavily vetted by a shadowy council who serves as Rockton’s only channel to modern life. It’s completely off the grid, with no electricity, no Internet, no cell phones, and not even postal mail. Here’s a quick “Cliff Notes” explanation of how Rockton came to be (excerpted from a review of This Fallen Prey, Rockton Mystery #3).įirst, let me explain Rockton to those new to the series: it’s a small, isolated town in the Yukon wilderness, built decades ago as a haven for those running from their pasts. The Deepest of Secrets concludes Kelley Armstrong’s Casey Duncan/Rockton series.
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