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Overview: Leigh Mayberry is a promising mystery author.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. A Cold Day for Murder
When Meghan Sheppard quits the FBI, she takes a job as the chief of police in a small town thirty-three miles above the Arctic Circle. She wants a simpler life, to find a place where she can take a breath, enjoy the serene magnitude of the last frontier, and perhaps see the northern lights. Living in an isolated northern village in rural Alaska is everything Meghan wanted. Being the chief of police means she can use the skills she learned as a special agent for the FBI and not have to worry about tracking serial killers, cybercriminals or terrorists. While being a cop in rural Alaska isn’t a vacation, Meghan thinks she has put all her troubles behind her, including her troubled marriage. When a local waitress from the Midnight Sun Cafe is found dead in her apartment, Meghan realizes that while she thought life was going to be a lot easier, suddenly, things got much more complicated. It’s one thing to chase a bad guy in the “real world,” with everything available with a little extra help. But, when you’re in a remote village on the tundra, you can’t track bad guys without boots and a warm parka.
2. A Killer Vacation
The Alaska Frontier isn’t for everyone. It’s isolated and cold. There are thousands of miles of jagged mountain ranges and hundreds of thousands of miles of inhospitable tundra. Most tourists see a fraction of the untamable landscape. It’s a place that takes a special kind of person to live there. Meghan Sheppard is that kind of person. At forty-four, divorced, and a former Special Agent for the FBI, Meghan takes a job at the top of the world because her skills fit the rural environment. As Chief of Police for the Kinguyakkii Police Department, Meghan hasn’t met everyone in the settlement, but she’s getting around to it. A town nestled within a natural harbor at the edge of Chukchi Sea, it’s a great place full of exciting people. Meghan wanted a vacation. She had plans; spend a few weeks in the summer sun above the Arctic Circle with her daughter. With twenty-two hours of daylight and warm weather, everything was perfect. Until the day Meghan’s daughter arrives. It happens to be the same day Paul Coleman, a successful contractor with big plans for the little city, decided to get himself shot, in the back, three times. Now, Meghan has to juggle a murder investigation that seems like a convoluted assassination, possibly because the victim announced his bid for Mayor of Kinguyakkii. Meghan has a host of raw clues and twisting leads that take her from one end of the city to the other. It turns out, Paul Coleman wasn’t a nice guy, and the deeper Meghan digs, he might not even be one of the good guys. This is not the vacation she hoped for.
3. Lost to the Sea
The Alaskan Frontier isn’t for everyone. It’s isolated and cold. There are thousands of miles of jagged mountain ranges and hundreds of thousands of miles of inhospitable tundra. It’s a place that takes a special kind of person to live there. Meghan Sheppard is that kind of person. At forty-four, divorced, and a former Special Agent for the FBI, Meghan takes a job at the top of the world because her skills fit the rural environment. The night Meghan Sheppard receives a ship to shore call regarding a derelict pleasure cruiser, it turns into a profound near-death experience. As Police Chief for Kinguyakkii, she’s responsible for the town and the outlying areas. That includes the vast Kinguyakkii Bay and the Chukchi Sea. Meghan never experienced the open wild waters of the Alaska shoreline. Now it could be her last voyage. Everyone wants to claim the boat because it’s considered an abandoned vessel. Meghan seems to be the one person who wants to know what happened to its captain. Now, Meghan is out on a preverbal limb. She will have to travel to Nome and Anchorage to solve the mystery. Meghan is having the worst week of her life. Now, it’s a race to find the missing captain, save the pirate, and figure out what happened aboard the Seagrass. Meghan is at the end of her rope, and no one wants to consider she’s uncovered something that isn’t what everyone else believes. Meghan has to trust her officers and put her faith in her intuition. It’s October in Alaska and it’s cold and miserable. Megan has a case, and she’s sinking fast. While it could be the end for Meghan Sheppard, she’s not willing to go quietly.
4. A Simple Case of Murder
The Alaska frontier isn’t for everyone. It’s isolated and cold. There are thousands of miles of jagged mountain ranges and hundreds of thousands of miles of inhospitable tundra. Most tourists see a fraction of the untamable landscape. It’s a place that takes a special kind of person to live there. Meghan Sheppard is that kind of person. At forty-four, divorced, and a former Special Agent for the FBI, Meghan takes a job at the top of the world because her skills fit the rural environment. As Chief of Police for the Kinguyakkii Police Department, Meghan hasn’t met everyone in the settlement, but she’s getting around to it. Friends aren’t easy to find living on top of the world. People don’t see beyond the badge. Meghan isn’t antisocial but she never goes out of her way to make acquaintances. When someone close to Meghan falls deathly ill, she realizes that something isn’t right in the village. Meghan must find the person responsible before someone else takes the blame for the death of a local doctor. The more layers Meghan uncovers, the deeper the secret, the darker the lies. She’s alienating more people and making enemies. Meghan steps on a lot of toes, and in winter boots, nothing is simple. Meghan knows the Alaska State Troopers made a mistake when they arrest the girlfriend of one of Meghan’s officers for murder. Unfortunately, no one cares, and Meghan doesn’t have a lot of people she can trust to help her discover the truth. What Meghan fears most is that someone is about to get away with murder.
5. The Season of Killing
Former FBI Special Agent Meghan Sheppard had a long and distinguished career with the Bureau right up until she got shot in the line of duty. Then Meghan felt it was time to make changes in her life. The Alaska frontier isn’t for everyone. It has damp and chilly summer days when the sun doesn’t set completely. It has long, cold winter nights when the sun doesn’t rise for a few months. Giving up a life in the bustling city on the east coast for a little slice of frozen heaven meant Meghan had to make personal sacrifices. Sometimes it wasn’t about following her heart; it was about following the call. Meghan has to make interesting and sometimes difficult decisions in her new role. Living thirty-three miles above the Arctic Circle, Meghan took the mantle as police chief in a bedroom community on the edge of the world. She lived in an area where her neighbors didn’t care if the sun rose or set to them; it was just another day. Now Meghan has to travel across the frozen tundra to the sleepy burgh of Noorvik, Alaska. A place where people don’t mind missing the basics and have even fewer amenities than she had in Kinguyakkii. Meghan must investigate the death of a village elder. She must find out if the fire that claimed the woman’s life was accidental or arson. She’s not alone, but Meghan is isolated in the dark of December and won’t see the sunrise again for another 40 days. Meghan has a crime to solve, obstacles to overcome, people to chase, and Christmas is coming. The trouble is, murder has a way of killing the Christmas spirit.
6. Lost in the Wild
Meghan Sheppard wanted a simpler life, a chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday trouble, find a place where she could take a breath, enjoy the serene magnitude of the last frontier, and perhaps see the northern lights. When Meghan quit the FBI, she took a job as the chief of police in a small town 33 miles above the Arctic Circle.
Murder, mayhem, and chasing bad guys were all behind her. Living in an isolated northern village in rural Alaska is everything Meghan wanted and being the chief of police means she could use the skills she earned as a Special Agent for the FBI and not have to worry about tracking serial killers, or cybercriminals, or terrorists, Meghan wanted the solitude of the wilderness and live in a little slice of the Alaskan Frontier that wasn’t corrupted by the grind of the lower forty-eight states. While being a cop in rural Alaska wasn’t supposed to be a vacation, Meghan thought she’d put all the troubles behind her, including a troubled marriage.
To the people of the north, the villagers in the City of Northern Lights, Meghan is still an outsider. Longevity has nothing to do with being an outsider in the bedroom community thirty-three miles above the Arctic Circle. Sometimes just carrying a badge changes how people look at her.
Now Meghan faces the biggest challenge of her career as the Police Chief in the bedroom village in the far north. A child is missing. Meghan’s longtime colleague—and part-time friend—from the FBI thinks she knows how to take care of business better than Meghan. With her back against the wall, and they are running out of time, Meghan must take a step backward to move ahead. It tests her strengths as a cop and exposes her weaknesses. Meghan knows it isn’t about her; it’s about finding a lost little girl in one of the most inhospitable places on earth.
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