Blue Star

Blue Star

Valerie Van Clieaf

Valerie Van Clieaf

A child is abducted and the gutsy filmmaker trying to find her disappears. When the case lands in Alex Desocarras' jurisdiction, a clue in a cryptic tweet leads him to the mother of another child abducted years before. When he identifies a high ranking RCMP officer as his main suspect, he is forced undercover. (Previously published as End of Innocence) Blue Star Blue Star, a gripping series opener, introduces Detective Sergeant Alex Desocarras, an Indigenous RCMP officer stationed in the town of 100 Mile House in British Columbia's beautiful and rugged South Cariboo. Alex Desocarras has been a police officer for fifteen years. Smart and savvy, his solve rate is the envy of many. But his latest case has his gut in a knot. Carey Bolton, a Gits'ilaasü girl, was kidnapped one night after soccer practice. An anonymous tip that she was taken to an address in Vancouver, BC –1,200 kilometres from home, proved to be a dead end...
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Red Paint

Red Paint

Valerie Van Clieaf

Valerie Van Clieaf

An important crown witness in a case against a paedophile ring is found tied to a tree with his throat slashed. The officers guarding him are dead. The ring has operated undetected in British Columbia for years, part of a much larger operation about which the police know nothing.The lunatic responsible for the killing is bent on making sure the larger operation is left undisturbed, and he is still frantic to crush the one man he is convinced will destroy them.Alex Desocarras has been an RCMP officer for 15 years. A brilliant detective, his solve rate is legendary. He identified the involvement of a high-ranking RCMP Inspector in the paedophile ring and was relentless in his pursuit of the officer and his loathsome cohorts.The Inspector's arrogant exploitation of vulnerable children over the years, among them, a young member of Desocarras' Secwépemc Nation, and the abysmal failure of the police to protect the boy and others like him pains Desocarras...
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