The first Nathan Active mystery
Born to a poor Inupiat girl in Chukchi, Alaska, north of the Arctic
Circle, State Trooper Nathan Active was adopted and raised by a white
family in Anchorage. Now, an unwelcome job reassignment has returned him
to the stark, beautiful landscape of poverty-stricken Chukchi. Two
suspicious suicides in the span of a week and rumors of trouble in the
village and at the local copper mine lead Active to believe there is a
killer at large. As a nalauqmiiyaaq, or someone regarded by the
community as "halfwhite," he must fight for every clue before the killer
strikes again.