K.A. Tucker’s Reviews > North Country > Status Update

Fun fact about North Country: I am a sucker for a good country store complete with jams and pumpkin wagons and freshly baked pies, so creating the Landry Market was so much fun. It was like merging all my favorite real-life markets into one.

There’s only one person I know who would ride with such reckless abandon.

Despite this unbearable weight that’s crushing me with Logan’s return, I smile as I watch a glimmer of the boy I used to know race across the field.

Meet Logan!

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I refocus on the window across the way.

“We were friends for a lot longer than we were anything else. And it was nothing. A high school thing. We wouldn’t have lasted.”

Can she hear the lie in my voice? Because I don’t believe it for a second.

The main heroine, Emery McAllister, is the detachment commander for an Ontario Provincial Police (O.P.P.) station. Although North Country features a police officer, the story is entirely character-driven and 100% NOT a police procedural. To help craft Emery’s role authentically, I hired a consultant and picked her brain with a lot of “what ifs.”

Fun Fact: I drove 2000km (for my American friends, that's about 1243 miles) in Northern Ontario to find the perfect setting to help shape my fictional town of Cold Water!