‘How Quickly She Disappears’ is a masterful work in the genre of subarctic noir ’How Quickly She Disappears, ’ by Raymond Fleischmann Alaska, with its daunting climate, endless wilderness and remoteness from the world, is the ideal location for mystery and thriller novels. Start with a good plot built on questions that devolve into a maze of half-answers, maintain the hint of imminent violence, add some long dark winter nights, then send the primary characters out to a cabin far from help for the climax, and you have all the elements of subarctic noir. It’s a genre unto itself, and one that gets a solid boost with “How Quickly She Disappears,” the riveting debut novel by Raymond Fleischmann.