Dead White (A Dakota Mystery Book 1)

Dead White (A Dakota Mystery Book 1)

This isn't your mother's Little House on the Prairie...

Detective Marek Okerlund unknowingly passes by a dying man in a Dakota blizzardâ€”and gets what he changed jobs to avoid: a homicide. Acting Sheriff Karen Mehaffey asks for a part-time detective to teach her the ropes and loses what she changed jobs to keep: peace in her family.

Together, estranged detective and sheriff stand uneasily over the frozen body of Dale Hansen, operations manager at the local meat-packing plant. The intriguing words "White Out" are carved into one bare arm, the raw wrist chained to a barbed-wire fence. What does the message mean? Is it racialâ€”as Dale wasn't popular with his Hispanic workersâ€”or merely a weather report, done in understated Dakota style?

Both Karen and Marek doubt their ability to give the victim justice. Karen is a former police dispatcher without a shred of investigative experience. Marek has enough experience for both of them, but he'd rather dust off his carpenterâ€™s license to save the last takeout restaurant in town from hooligans. Besides, saving his half-Hispanic, motherless daughter from starvation is a higher priority for him than arguing with a hard-headed sheriff.

They'll both be out in the cold, though, if they can't put aside their differences to find a killer.

Neither cozy nor hardboiled, DEAD WHITE is a character-driven police procedural of a rural bent. Word Count: 115,000. Occasional profanity. Minimal gore.

REVIEW

DEAD WHITE's characters seemed to walk right out of a familiar Dakota town, bickering with every step. I couldn't stop reading!

â€”Linda M. Hasselstrom, Author of No Place Like Home
Country USA
Manufacturer Amazon Digital Services
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-03-26
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Amazon Digital Services
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-03-26
Format	Kindle eBook