A DEAD AND MUTILATED WHALE.A MURDERED BOY.A GIRL IN DANGER. A GUTSY SURVIVOR OF A SCHOOL SHOOTING MUST SURVIVE A PERILOUS JOURNEY TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY AND SAVE THE GIRL. Johnstone Strait, British Columbia, Canada: A remote cluster of forested islands, home of orcas, bears and bald eagles. The presence of resident orcas lures scientists and whale watchers from all over the world, as well as kayakers seeking the quiet and the chance to get closer to nature on this pristine coastline. Retired school teacher Phoebe Clay takes her beloved twelve-year-old niece, Alice, on a kayaking trip to paddle with orcas, hoping for a chance to bond with the girl and to recover from the crippling trauma of the school shooting that took the lives of three students—a shooting for which she secretly blames herself. But on their first morning, a dead whale...

TO SOLVE THE BRUTAL DEATH OF A TRIBAL WOMAN, DETEKTIV ALEXANDER KAZAKOV BRAVESTHE UNFORGIVING CENTRAL ASIAN MOUNTAINS IN THIS EXCITING NOVEL OF MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE. Alternate history, modern-day Russia: Fergana is the last stronghold of the Russian people and tiny buffer state between the Ottoman Empire and the Chinese Empire of the Sun, but now forces threaten to undermine the uneasy peace. An outside influencer stirs unrest between Ferganese Russians and people of tribal descent. The murder of a revered Kyrgyz healer in the village of Biysk takes Detective Alexander Kazakov away from the looming presidential election to a Russian ski resort deep in the mountains. It's a chance to reacquaint himself with a part of the country he once loved. But Instead of a welcome, he finds a tribal community overrun with Russian tourists and a groundswell of festering resentment among the mountain people. His investigation becomes entangled in...

What if Catherine the Great never found her greatness and the Ottoman Empire destroyed Holy Mother Russia? In an alternate modern Russia surrounded by the still-powerful Ottoman Empire and the Chinese Empire of the Sun, a dead girl in a pink sweater draws disillusioned Detektiv Alexander Kazakov into an investigation that even the girl's mother wants him to abandon. Driven by the truth and a slowly rising body count, Kazakov must traverse a landscape of snow and brothels, and a civilization frozen by history to catch a killer no one suspects. After Yekaterina is the first in the Yekaterina Alternate History series set in the fictional Central Asian Country of Fergana.