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’Wild Rivers, Wild Rose, ’ by Sarah Birdsall In keeping with the theme of my most recent review, let’s return again to the subarctic noir genre, this time with Talkeetna author Sarah Birdsall. “Wild Rivers, Wild Rose” is her latest book, and it’s one that shouldn’t be missed. Set in and around the fictional town of Susitna Station (a clear stand-in for Talkeetna), it weaves in and around the middle 20th century, drawing readers into an imagined community shattered by an unresolved triple homicide at a nearby mine. The story opens on Sept. 29, 1941, with one of the three slayings. On the first page, Anna Harker feels the murder weapon, an ax, come down three times on her body. She is left dying on the tundra, having not seen her assailant, and begins reminiscing about her life in Alaska and what had brought her to her impending death, a short distance away from the mine she and her husband Henry operate. ....