A body washed ashore sends Detective Simon Goodyear and Constable Diana Jackson, searching for its identity and an explanation of how it ended up in Barrettsport. A graffiti artist sending a message with scenes he paints on walls and fences around the town, and a sea captain who beats his wife, confound the investigation. Thei... r search leads to a disgruntled son who operates an illicit drug lab and a heavily armed drug dealer. Demons from Simon’s life before he arrived in Barrettsport, and his uncertainty about his ongoing romance with schoolteacher Amelia Craddock, complicate matters.read more
BIOGRAPHY Alan Kemister is the pen name of Phil Yeats, a retired scientist living in Halifax Nova Scotia who is experimenting with creative writing. He has a keen interest in environmental science and dabbled in yachting and golf before turning to fiction. Yachting can be physically challenging, golf offers gentler exercise bu... t more frustration, creative writing, no exercise but maximum frustration. Can these be positive trends?
Most of his fourteen short stories were written using the pen name Alan Kemister to keep a minimal degree of separation between his real science and the fictional variants in some of the stories.
He has published two soft-boiled mysteries in a series of novels set in a fictional town on Nova Scotia's South Shore. He is working on books three and four in this series as well as an Earth-based science fiction dystopia set a few years in the future. He also finds time to write the odd short story. Maybe some of them will get published.read more