Massacre at Bear Creek Lodge: A Kodiak, Alaska Wilderness Mystery Novel

by Robin Barefield

In this exciting new novel by wildlife biologist, guide, and writer Robin Barefield, Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Dan Patterson flies to a remote area of Kodiak Island to investigate the massacre of eight people at a small lodge, where he encounters the worst murder scene he has ever investigated. How did someone kill eight people in the middle of the wilderness and then disappear? Patterson takes a hard look at those closest to the lodge owners. Did estranged siblings Brian or Deb Bartlett murder their parents and the six guests at the lodge? Was the killer the mysterious outdoorsman who lives a few miles away or someone at the cannery in this sparsely populated bay? Each time Patterson picks up a lead, new evidence shifts the course of the investigation. Meanwhile, the killer strikes again, murdering one of Patterson's main suspects, and Patterson knows he must stop the monster before more people die.

363 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 1, 2022

About the author

Robin Barefield lives in the wilderness on Kodiak Island where she and her husband own a remote lodge. She has a master’s degree in fish and wildlife biology and is a wildlife viewing and fishing guide. Robin has published three novels, Big Game, Murder Over Kodiak, and The Fisherman’s Daughter. She draws on her love and appreciation of the Alaska wilderness as well as her scientific background when writing.

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Reviews

[Frances Joyce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Robin Barefield does it again with this book set in the Alaska Wilderness. Eight people are murdered at Bear Creek Lodge and Alaska State Trooper Dan Patterson is leading the investigation. The challenges to investigate a remote crime scene are daunting. The crime scene can only be accessed by use of a small plane or boat. In the hours it takes to assemble his team and the necessary equipment to process the scene, evidence can be tampered with or lost. Two young women who work at the lodge are the only two survivors of this brutal attack and they claim to have heard and seen nothing. The son and daughter of Bob and Jules Barlett, the owners of the lodge, were present for dinner along with the daughter's sketchy boyfriend, but each was seen leaving hours before the attacks could have taken place.
Bob Barlett had enemies. By all accounts, he was not an easy man to like, but why would anyone murder him and Jules with an ax and shoot their guests, but leave the cook and housemaid alive?
Barefield provides us with several suspects and motives for this carnage, but one thing remains clear whoever did this is extremely dangerous and has no qualms about killing again to cover up their crimes. Fast-paced action, but methodical detective work makes this procedural unique.

[Shawnee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Woohoo! I figured out the bad guy!
Fast, fun read. Will read more by this author!

[jody powley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can't put it down

The was suspenseful many twist and turn. A monumental task to keep each character interesting, on point and this author does just that.

[Jess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick chapters, and once it gets going it's hard to put down, but the ending was anticlimactic after the exciting conflicts throughout.