A Very Cold Case In Minnesota

Tom Ryan, a recently widowed St Paul Police detective, completes a departmental ordered assessment for alcohol dependency affecting his fitness for duty as a police officer. Upon his return to active duty, he is dumped out of the Homicide Unit only to be handed a cold case assignment by the Chief of Police with orders to look at the investigation with fresh eyes. and a new approach to the investigation into the death of Tom Strain, an American Indian war hero and former Navy SEAL team member. Ryan enlists the assistance of Minneapolis Police Sergeant Doyle Kill, a Chippewa Indian familiar with the both the deceased and the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Together they pursue leads and new witnesses in and around the Red Lake Reservation only to stumble upon a massive fraud case involving an unsuccessful attempt to build a gambling casino on the Reservation. The case ebbs and flows as scenarios are constructed and discarded with each turn of events until Ryan and Kill discover a massive land and tax fraud scheme meant to fund both the building of the proposed casino and the development of the land surrounding it.Ryan falls in love with a local woman who's recently dead fiance is a central figure in the crimes, making her a key lead in the cases they are pursuing. Only when they discover that Tom Strain was bounced from the Navy for his involvement with a drug cartel during his duty in Central America does the case take an international turn and leads to a deadly confrontation at its conclusion.A Note About The Author:William Gillespie is a retired Saint Paul Police officer with 26 years of service. He was a former Homicide Investigator and Unit Homicide Unit Commander with .vast experience in the investigation of unattended deaths and crime scene analysis.