A Lonesome Place for Dying: A Novel

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Perfect for fans of C. J. Box and William Kent Krueger, a sleepy town is rocked to its core when a dead body is found in this debut novel. In the quiet seaside town of Blaine, Washington the most serious police work involves dealing with stray coyotes or ticketing speeders along the I-5. But on Ethan Brand's first day as the town's chief of police, he finds a threat on his porch, along with a gruesome souvenir, a bloody animal heart. There are plenty of people who are upset about Ethan replacing the last Chief, but when a body shows up on the railroad tracks, Ethan has to turn his focus from the threats against him to the first homicide case the town has seen in years. Blaine's population is only five thousand, but eight million vehicles pass through its railroad crossing every year. It's the perfect site for drug smuggling, human trafficking, larceny, and murder. Ethan begins to realize that the small town has many more secrets than its quiet surface suggests. With no one to trust, his job already on the line, and the threats getting bolder and more reckless, Ethan Brand must find the killers and bring them to justice before anyone else winds up dead.

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Praise for A Lonesome Place for Dying:
A Lonesome Place For Dying by Nolan Chase is the real deal. What reader can
resist experiencing a blue-eyed coyote And a heart in butcher paper left on a
back porch. And that is just the beginning of A Lonesome Place For Dying by Nolan
Chase, a first-time novelist who has already out-paced most of his peers in the
police procedural genre.

Ethan Brand is the newly appointed police chief of Blaine, Washington, a small
town near the Canadian border. His first case is a homicide and missing person
case involving drugs, money, and fraud committed by a multi-generational crime
family.

The writer uses bright-line imagery of the police chief and his deputies. We also
gain an understanding of the crooks and their motives. A cat-and-mouse game
soon develops, and the reader is compelled to live inside this well-told, exciting,
and realistically drawn story. Here is hoping that Nolan Chase has a long and
illustrious career.
Steve Aberle, Great Mysteries and Thrillers

A Lonesome Place for Dying is a stunning first novel introducing a new, badass, hunk of a hero in Ethan Brand, the PNW heartthrob you didnt know you needed. This book is chock full of deadly characters, salt-water-soaked secrets, and delivers a twist that made me gasp out loud.
Meredith Hambrock, author of Other Peoples Secrets

Author Bio

Nolan Chase lives and works in the Pacific Northwest. A Lonesome Place for Dying is his first book featuring Ethan Brand.