Sisters of the Midnight Sun

Name: Sisters of the Midnight Sun
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ISBN: 9781640097711

A Murder in Arctic Alaska

Rebecca Wright Stevens

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Counterpoint
14 July 2026

True crime

The stunning and complex story of a gruesome double homicide in the vibrant Inupiat community at the northernmost edge of the United States-and the public defender who represented the drifter at its center

The stunning true story of a double homicide in the vibrant native Alaskan Inupiat community at the arctic edge of the United States-written by the public defender at its center

Rebecca Wright is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik on Alaska's North Slope, an oil-rich area the size of Wyoming where the Inupiat community holds great cultural, political, and economic power. Though she'll always be a tanik-an outsider-she works hard to gain the trust and friendship of the folks who call this singular place home.

When two well-known sisters, Bernice and Wanda Ipalook, are found murdered, Wright is tasked with representing Amos Lane, a drifter on the short-list of murder suspects. Criminal charges are looming. But this is summer in northern Alaska, the season of the midnight sun, when twenty-four-hour sunlight makes it difficult for witnesses to confirm the time-or even the day-they last saw the sisters, Amos, or anyone else. Wright must navigate an unreliable client, a prosecution willing to entrap her to get a conviction, a budding romance, and a community that believes Amos might deserve a different form of justice from what the tanik legal system can provide.

Weaving a detailed portrait of Utqiagvik alongside Wright's complex self-portrait of an outsider in an isolated community, Sisters of the Midnight Sun is a riveting true account that brings to vivid life a land at the edge of the habitable world.

By: Rebecca Wright Stevens
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781640097711
ISBN 10: 1640097716
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 14 July 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

REBECCA WRIGHT STEVENS is a retired public defender with a double major in English and Spanish from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and a Juris Doctor degree from Memphis State.

Reviews for Sisters of the Midnight Sun: A Murder in Arctic Alaska

“Sisters of the Midnight Sun is a marvelous offering to true crime fans everywhere, set in a complex native Alaskan community, with a compelling protagonist in Rebecca Wright Stevens, a Public Defender obsessed with justice for two sisters murdered during the long months of endless sun."" —James Dalessandro, author of 1906: A Novel and Citizen Jane