An Alaska Cold Case Mystery

An Alaska Cold Case Mystery - Distant Early Warning

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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 the one indisputedly murdered man? Who is the murderer? Why was the case never properly investigated? And if they answer those questions, who are the bodies at two other DEW Line installations? How do Annie Brewster and her partner Arturo Feliz piece together this crime? Glacially...but with increasing success, until the murderer is revealed. Now all they have to do is find him

Annie Brewster has her hunches why the murder in the Alaskan Arctic was never properly investigated. She begins, almost immediately, to have the visions that take this book from a frozen Quonset Hut in Barrow to an old, decommissioned base in the Aleutian Chain, to the Chemawa Indian School in Oregon. Working steadily now with her new partner, Arturo Feliz, Annie explores the strange murder and the associated bodies which, literally, pile up. The shadowy killer hides, obfuscates and lays false trails that lead the investigators in their first foray into the Indian School system, the impact of unsolved crimes on tribal lands and the frustration of having evidence that is not yet admissible in the nation’s courts.

This time, their hard work pays off, but the next case looms. Distant Early Warning once again includes Annie’s diverse colleagues, her beloved Fred, and Bones, the springer spaniel, who is now the father of six. It features Alaska’s history, cultures, geography and daily life of long-time residents.

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CATEGORY: Novels
DATE: 16 Sept 2022
TAGS: MYSTERY & DETECTIVE | POLICE PROCEDURALS | GENERAL MYSTERY & DETECTIVE
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Alaska Cold Case Mystery Series

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AWOL

An Alaska Cold Case Mystery

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JUST POLITICS

An Alaska Cold Case Mystery

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Nancy Buell - Central Oregon Author and Poet

ABOUT NANCY BUELL

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.

WORKS

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