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City Under One Roof
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
"A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own motives for investigating the possible murder in this isolated place, which can be accessed only by a tunnel. After a blizzard causes the tunnel to close indefinitely, Cara is stuck among the odd and suspicious residents of the town--all 205 of whom live in the same high-rise building and are as icy as the weather. Cara teams up with Point Mettier police officer Joe Barkowski, but before long the investigation is upended by fearsome gang members from a nearby native village. Haunted by her past, Cara soon discovers that everyone in this town has something to hide. Will she be able to unravel their secrets before she unravels?""--
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Traci1
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️1/2
Meh. I think the atmosphere was the high point of this one. The mystery was sort of all over the place, and there were some things that seemed out of place within the story.
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batsy
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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This was surprisingly solid & effective, with a kind of ending foreshadowing a series that I didn't mind at all. The author fictionalises the town of Whittier in Alaska, where the majority of the residents live in one building. It's a neat "locked room" concept to play around with, & I found the multiplicity of POVs interesting. Although, as is often the case, I do wish the strong & silent female leads in these books have more humour/personality.

LeahBergen Great review! I‘ve been reading about this one. 14mo
batsy @LeahBergen Thank you! It's a satisfying crimey mystery + bonus intriguing setting 🙂 14mo
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AudiobookingWithLeah
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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Pickpick

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The setting of a city where everyone lives in the same high-rise building is what really made this a stand-out listen for me. And…it‘s based on an actual city, called Whittier, Alaska. Look it up on YouTube, it‘s pretty neat. The final reveal at the end was a touch lackluster but wasn‘t predictable…so I‘m going to say this one is a winner and it has separate narrators for each POV…which I love.

bookandbedandtea I thought the narration on this was great! 1y
BarbaraBB Whittier… super interesting! 1y
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bookandbedandtea
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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Pickpick

Mettier, Alaska is a small town where all 205 residents live in a single high rise. And the people who live there relish their isolation as most of them have secrets to guard. Student Amy finds body parts on the beach bringing detective Cara to town looking for answers to her own personal tragedy while mentally challenged Lonnie grapples w things she's seen but doesn't understand. This was a good start to a new series & the narration was superb.

SamAnne I think there is that place in AK. 2y
batsy I have this on hold ... Glad to hear you liked it! 2y
bookandbedandtea @SamAnne Yes! Whittier, AK is a whole town contained in one building... residents, shops, police, even hotel rooms! I heard of it for the first time shortly before I heard about this book so I was intrigued. 2y
bookandbedandtea @batsy It's not award winning but it is good. I hope you enjoy it. 2y
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BookishTrish
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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Pickpick

A grieving detective pursues a case she thinks might be connected to her family‘s death. It leads her to a town in Alaska so remote that all the inhabitants live in the same building. Then a storm comes and cuts the town off from the rest of the world.

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PNWBookseller85
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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Mehso-so

This one was no literary masterpiece, but it was a ton of fun! A murder that takes place in a city in Alaska that is all in one building. A fantastic setting. A little cliche in parts, but a good read/listen nevertheless.

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JHSiess
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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Pickpick

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𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐟 is 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐘𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐚's gripping debut mystery. An isolated Alaskan town accessible only via a 2.5-mile long tunnel inspired it, but the fictionalized version & fascinating characters are products' of Yamashita's vivid imagination. It's the 1st volume in a compulsive, lushly descriptive, & atmospheric series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸: https://tinyurl.com/ycymvrv8

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SilversReviews
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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“The ultimate locked room mystery, CITY UNDER ONE ROOF drops readers into an isolated, snowy town and is perfect for fans of Twin Peaks, Mare of Easttown, and Broadchurch.”

Sounds quite good….going to read it?

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Cuilin You had me at locked room. Stacked. 📚💕 🔒 🏠 2y
SilversReviews @Cuilin 😀😀Enjoy when you read it. 2y
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Bette
City Under One Roof | Iris Yamashita
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This thing takes off and. Does. Not. Quit. Alaska. A hand and foot have washed ashore.
The story is told through three women: a detective, a teenager, and the woman with the moose. The city is accessed by a single lane road through a 2 mile tunnel and is basically a city in one building. The claustrophobia ratchets up when a blizzard blows in and blocks the tunnel.
Everyone has a secret. Everyone. (Not the moose, but he has a backstory.) 👍

Librariana I've seen videos about this city in a building! Very interesting for it to be chosen as the setting. Clever! 2y
Reggie Stacked just for the moose. 2y
ShelleyBooksie Oh lala - this sounds great! Stacked. 2y
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Bette @Librariana I just read about it (afterwards) it‘s in Whittier. Makes more sense now why it sounded so authentic! 2y
Bette @Reggie I was sucked in by the moose as well. 😆 2y
Bette @ShelleyBooksie Hope you like it too, I can‘t stop thinking about it. 2y
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