Northern Lights by Nora Roberts

Northern Lights

3/5. Romantic suspense about the traumatized Maryland cop taking a job as sheriff in rural Alaska where he falls for a lady pilot and solves an old murder. Enjoyably readable, particularly the extensive cast of townsfolk, alternately hilarious and sad and madcap. Though if it's specifically Alaska and its culture you want, I'd go for Dana Stabenow over this.

Content notes: Animal harm, depression.