When is a missing person missing? In Alaska, the answer is not so simple. Rayleen Hopkins appears to be able to "disappear" at will. After an intense and emotional search for missing village children, somehow the case before them is again a missing person--though no one in her family seems to think she's really missing.
In a remote Alaskan school district, a consultant reviewing school records discovers a suspicious pattern of girls missing over several years. Annie Brewster and her partner Arturo Feliz pursue the consultant’s concern, long after it was investigated and dismissed. Is anyone really missing...
The coldest crime confronts Annie Brewster and her team in the Alaska Investigation Bureau’s new Cold Case Unit. It took place two decades in the past, in the high Arctic. All victims found in a Quonset Hut just outside of Barrow were stripped of identification. Who is dead? Who is....
High-level politics is a good place to hide a crime, especially in Alaska. A political appointee in Alaska is murdered; it could be Just Politics. Annie Brewster, as the lead investigator of the Alaska Investigation Bureau, tries to thread her way through a murder where there are no weapons, no evidence...
Nancy Atherton Buell was born in Oregon, but spent over half of her life in Alaska with her husband of 50 years and a succession of springer spaniels. She lived in Barrow, Anchorage, Juneau and Kenai, and is now retired to Oregon. Having found her creative voice and the time to use it, she writes every day in her studio.
Nancy has been an educator at every level, from public school to university.
After she retired, she made and sold jewelry, and processed large quantities of fish. Occasionally wrote an educational product. And then, one day, found the bankers box containing all of her youthful poetry and prose. Since then, in her new writing and jewelry studio, she writes, edits, and waits for the next poem to visit.
Key to all of Nancy’s work, and no less in the poetry, is a profound sense of “place,” and how that influences human life. All of her prose vividly describes not only Alaska, but the other places in the nation and in Mexico and Canada to which the characters travel.
NOVELS
2024 - The Radish Hole
2023 - AWOL
2022 - Distant Early Warning
2021 - Just Politics
OTHER WORKS
2021 - Time Share Addendum
2020 - Time Share
POETRY
2024 - Ways in the Labyrinth