Truman Pedersen

Preservation Truman Pedersen

Disgraced Detective Mike Abraham has been shoved out of Seattle Police Department to backwater Lewiston Town, Washington State. He brings a failing marriage, wife and two children reluctantly in tow and is evidence that a wealthy upbringing does not secure happiness or salvation from the disciplinary hearing he was subjected to last year. Barely arrived in Lewiston, Abraham is thrust into a murder investigation when a mutilated teenager is discovered at one o'clock in the morning, lying in the centre of 5th Avenue, gripped tight in the bloodied hands of Philip Beacon who claims he did not murder local girl Hetty Redfern. A clean-cut case with suspect apprehended should make Abraham's murder investigation a short one to get to the courts. However, as winter arrives the case is smothered in lies and deceit, covered with the conspiracy of the locals and those he is trusted to work with. From the Native Indian Sheriff John T. Bone, to Judge Wells and ageing Medical Examiner Bob Irwin and the reservation Elders, nobody can be trusted as they all fall beneath the growing shadows of Mount Saint Helen and her historic peaks. The darkness of the past, the Great Mill fire of 2002 and ancient Native American traditions slowly consuming Lewiston, driving Detective Abraham to his very limits as a second victim is discovered. Only, this body has been missing for fifteen years and three more children have disappeared as yet more lives are lost and a fight ensues with the surviving population of Native American Indians in Lewiston reservation. After all, we should never forget our roots, where we came from and survival is everything in a modern age of far-right politics, corruption and recession. Preservation is everything. Detective Mike Abraham is a threat to their preservation.