Secret Places: A Southeast Alaska Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798993822358)

The tiny Southeast Alaskan village of Sweetwater is in trouble. It is a lovely, scenic place nestled beneath the trees in a quiet cove deep in the wilderness. It is also a place where people depend on one another.

Then Native Alaskan fisherman Johnny Ingman leaves town at the start of fishing season and vanishes. No one, not even Johnny's family, knows where in the vast, wild Alaskan Panhandle he may have gone. Johnny's childhood friend, Wildlife Trooper Chuck Kolinsky, undertakes a relentless investigation that reignites old resentments and awakens growing anxieties over threats to the traditional commercial salmon fishery upon which they all depend. Those frustrations erupt in an angry public protest at a fish-buying scow anchored in a tiny cove out along the uninhabited North Pacific Ocean coast. At the height of that protest, Kolinsky finds the answers he needs, apprehends the killer, and restores peace to his community.