Review of Ghost Bog

Ghost Bog by Steven Kuehn

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I'm not sure how, but I found Steven Kuehn's first novel and enjoyed it enough to look for the second in the series. Well, it's finally out and I just finished reading it. It's an enjoyable cozy mystery.

The main character and narrator, Jake Caine, is an archeologist who works in Wisconsin, and in Ghost Bog he is excavating a very early Paleoindian site. He's on a clock as the site is to be developed as part of a state park. Then his team starts discovering human remains. Alas, one of those remains is not a Paleoindian but rather somebody buried with a modern wristwatch.

Caine and his team, including his new girlfriend, a deputy sheriff from a nearby county, find themselves investigating. I think Kuehn's police procedure is a bit off and we get a lot of archeology before the mystery starts, but overall I found it an enjoyable and standalone book. I hope there's a Book 3 in the works.



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