A story of heartache, violence, and immeasurable lies all woven into the fabric of one small town hideaway. Some secrets stay hidden, while others come to the light of day and wreak havoc in Iris Yamashita’s City Under One Roof.
As body parts start washing ashore in one small community on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska, people start watching their backs as Detective Cara Kennedy rolls into town unannounced. Kennedy is conducting her own investigation into the body parts, which could lead to information in the disappearance of people that are close to her. Aside from the cozy local police chief and his lone officer, the town is really a group of misfits all poured into the same building while winter rages outside.
The investigation grows and the mystery of how an unknown man is butchered and why no one cares continues to plague Kennedy? As life continues in Point Mettier, the hooligans from the local Native American village roll into town with an unspoken score to settle. As Kennedy and the locals search for the truth, more people turn up missing and the hunt for the truth becomes deadly.
Yamashita delivers a heart pounding adventure with characters with dark secrets beyond belief. This isn’t your classic hallmark movie in the snow, this is an eerily tragic experience that will set Cara Kennedy free or possibly drag her down a rabbit hole that may not even exist. The characters give you everything you could possibly want from redemption, disaster, love, and hate. There is a specific emotion that Yamashita delivers, and I can’t tell if I’m feeling the redemptive qualities of solving a brutally violent case, or the horror of being shown death firsthand and knowing that the past could haunt you forever.
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