Distant Early Warning: An Alaska Cold Case Mystery

by Nancy Buell, Bill Buell (Editor)

Annie Brewster and her team in the Alaska Investigation Bureau’s new Cold Case Unit take on a mystery that began two decades in the past, in the high Arctic. All victims found in a Quonset Hut just outside of Barrow are 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 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.

404 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 31, 2022