Bøger af Jonathan Faulkner

The setting is Seward, Alaska, a scenic and coastal port town that hosts Alaska's oldest and most celebrated historic hotel-the Van Gilder. Fannie Guthry-Baehm was murdered in room 201 in 1950, and her ghost has been witnessed by many over the years.Against the backdrop of legislative corruption and a harrowing snowstorm, a cast of colorful characters find themselves embroiled in an unfolding murder mystery.Fannie the ghost does not engage the evils of the past but those yet to be committed. She does not intimidate the guilty with the redundant thud of a telltale heart but flickers and fades in the minds of evil intent so as to deter the passion and prompt the tempted to reflect on their schemes.Who will solve the crime? The no-nonsense chief of police, Mike Callahan, or the mystic healer, Juliet? Perhaps Fannie herself will invite a confession. Evidence and testimony assume new meaning as facts and faith collide and as the "chief" embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will grip you until the end.

The modern day setting is Kenai Landing, a 100-year-old cannery at the mouth of Alaska's famous Kenai River. In this former Kenaitze fish camp, ancient spirits dwell and Fukuda Aijiro, fifty years buried, is running out of time.Juxtaposing this timeframe is the WWII-era evacuation of Alaska's Aleut population from their ancestral homeland. Transferred to squalid camps and abandoned mines in southeast Alaska, Aleuts suffered irreparable harm to their people, a "forgotten war" that is traced here through the family of Needra Kudrin. Keeno Kudrin, captured and imprisoned by the Japanese, is among those tragically displaced. As he struggles to recover his pre-war existence, Keeno must confront the forces of good and evil and the ghost of Fukuda Aijiro. Forced to resign the prior year, following his admission that the ghost of Fannie Guthry-Baehm helped him indict Bill Brady for murder, Chief Callahan is called back into duty. As fact-based collection of evidence collides with his newfound faith, Chief Callahan is asked to investigate a suspicious death, which means unraveling the mysteries of the past.