"Gold Miner's Daughter"
An Alaska Railroad mystery series, where history, crime, and the Last Frontier collide.
The first book in the Chicken Dinner Mystery Series is here!
Wyatt wondered how he survived the Korean War, failed as a police officer in Texas, and ended up in the Fortymile mining district in 1959, only the following spring, suspected of murdering his friend Tim Crocket and accused of claim jumping.
Wyatt, railroaded by his friend, the mayor, and the eccentric residents of Chicken, elects him as the part-time Sheriff. He investigates Tim’s demise while working for his dead friend’s sister Amy on the Crocket’s mine. The Alaska State Police and government are new and present challenges in communication and crime solving in the remote mining community.
Conspiracy seems farfetched to Wyatt, but growing evidence and three more murders force him to consider that gold and politics are at the core of the threat to the Chicken community. Attacks on Wyatt and the Crockets prompt him to reconsider his life as a broke miner and rekindle a reluctant interest in law enforcement.
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"Gold Miner's Daughter: Cold Justice on the Last Frontier"
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