Anyone reading mysteries set in 1960s Alaska?
I've been seeking mysteries with a real sense of place, not just a backdrop, but a setting that shapes everything about the story. Remote, isolated, before technology took over.
The concept I keep coming back to is post-Korean War era, a tight-knit frontier community where people are used to solving their own problems. Kind of Western in spirit but set in Alaska's interior, right around statehood, before the pipeline changed everything.
I love Craig Johnson and William Kent Krueger for their rugged settings, close communities, and protagonists who think like lawmen even when they aren't one. Trying to find anything that scratches that itch with an Alaskan historical setting.
Is this too niche to have a readership, or am I just looking in the wrong places?