The Ancient Dead

An Amanda Doucette Mystery

by Barbara Fradkin

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Pub Date Feb 23 2021 | Archive Date Dec 01 2020

Dundurn Press

Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

Amanda Doucette searches desperately for the connection between bones discovered in a remote Alberta coulee and an uncle who went missing thirty years ago.

Photographer Todd Ellison is engrossed in a photo shoot deep in Alberta’s dinosaur country when he stumbles upon human bones buried in the sand of a remote coulee. Not far away, while driving through the Alberta prairie, Amanda Doucette glimpses an abandoned farmhouse that reminds her of an old photograph hanging on her aunt’s wall.

Who is the cocky young cowboy in the photo? Could it be connected to Amanda’s uncle, who went missing in Alberta thirty years ago? As Amanda starts to make connections between his disappearance and the body in the coulee, she discovers more questions than answers. To make matters worse, a mysterious person will stop at nothing to get her to abandon the investigation.

Advance Praise

"The author, a retired psychologist, does a fine job of building her characters; unlike some amateur-sleuth mysteries, whose protagonists seem either too clever or too cute by half, Fradkin populates her series with real people whose lives encompass more than solving the odd crime. Keep ’em coming. " — Booklist, for Prisoners of Hope

"★ A high-adrenaline plunge " — Publishers Weekly, starred review for Prisoners of Hope

"Fradkin's forte is the emotional cost of crime. " — Ottawa Citizen