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You wouldn't think that being a law enforcement official in Blight County, Idaho, would keep you very busy. Surprisingly, Sheriff Bo Tully and the folks in his department usually find themselves very involved in strange goings-on in the area. This time, Bo receives a call from the owner of a local ski lodge that her husband, Mike Wilson, has disappeared. Nobody is crying about his being gone, but it is strange that he would vanish without a trace. Together with his father (and former sheriff) Pop Tully, Bo goes to the lodge to investigate. Along the way, he and Pop are almost killed by an avalanche, which Bo later decides was deliberately set off. Although they managed to escape death, the avalanche serves to block passage to the lodge and isolate its current residents. Forced to stay at the resort lodge - what a hardship - Bo and Pop find that there's quite an interesting bunch of folks vacationing there, including a group of college kids, several suspicious-looking men and one of Bo's former loves, who is preparing for a dog sled race. I found it odd that Bo relied on several of these amateurs to help with the investigation, which didn't seem very procedurally sound to me. In particular, there is an attractive college female who performs various sleuthing activities. As it turns out, Wilson was murdered. It appears that the "victim" may have been involved in a homicide of his own. Most puzzling to Bo are the logistics of the case. The situation is almost like a closed-room murder, with the weather allowing for no one to leave or enter the area. The blurbs on the jacket would lead you to believe that AVALANCHE is laugh-out-loud funny, which I didn't find to be the case until the very last page. Certainly, it has its amusing moments but I didn't find it especially comic. It was enjoyable to spend time with the various series characters, my favorites being Bryon "Lurch" Proctor who is also known as "CSI Unit," and Dave Perkins, the Indian tracker who is not an Indian. AVALANCHE is entertaining but not particularly memorable.
Reviewed by Maddy Van Hertbruggen, May 2008
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