An Alaska Cold Case Mystery

An Alaska Cold Case Mystery - The Radish Hole

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When is a missing person missing? In Alaska, the answer is not so simple.

Rayleen Hopkins appears to be able to "disappear" at will. And, because it is four years since her last sighting, Inspector Annie Brewster of the Alaska Cold Case Unit considers whether to follow this case, among the many from which to choose.

After an intense and emotional search for missing village children, Annie Brewster and her partner Arturo Felize want to turn the Alaska Cold Case Unit toward something a little less distressing. "How about a nice property crime?" Annie's Fred suggests. And yet, somehow the case before them is again a missing person--though no one in her family seems to think she's really missing.

Annie and Arturo follow this elusive woman down the path she has created until, like a padlock that has found its housing, it leads to an old, dramatic property crime. Solved, but not entirely. Now the Inspectors are off to the races, trying to catch someone they can see from a distance, and whose relationship to the original crime is unclear but compelling.

The Radish Hole follows the cold case squad and a collection of witnesses and helpers up and down the Alaska Peninsula, to Seward's max prison, to Kenai's Oil Refinery, and through the tiny town of Whitter, where the mysterious, abandoned Buckner Building tempts Annie to discovery.

This fourth installment of the Alaskan Cold Case Mysteries continues to explore the relationship between fairly "normal" crimes and Alaska's sometimes extreme, always challenging environment. In this book, fish in the famous Kenai River and take a Cruise out Resurrection Bay. Visit remote parts of the state begun in Just Politics (Juneau, Fairbanks, Delta Junction), Distant Early Warning (Utpiagvik/Barrow, Kaktovik, Adak) and AWOL (Yukon Delta, Bethel), which form not just the backdrop of these stories, but the complexity of the environment that investigators must navigate to follow their leads to the criminal waiting in the remote distance.

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CATEGORY: Novels
DATE: 5 Nov 2024
TAGS: MYSTERY & DETECTIVE | POLICE PROCEDURALS | GENERAL MYSTERY & DETECTIVE
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Alaska Cold Case Mystery Series

THE RADISH HOLE

When is a missing person missing? In Alaska, the answer is not so simple. Rayleen Hopkins appears to be able to "disappear" at will. Now the Inspectors are off to the races, trying to catch someone they can see from a distance, and whose relationship to the original crime is unclear but compelling.

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AWOL

An Alaska Cold Case Mystery

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...

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DISTANT EARLY WARNING

An Alaska Cold Case Mystery

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....

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JUST POLITICS

An Alaska Cold Case Mystery

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

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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