Dying Alone

When the murder of Andy Cornell's brother is still unsolved after two and a half years, Andy enters the hidden worlds of street people, cartel violence, and pueblo secrets to find justice.He and Rick were inseparable as boys, so Andy is determined as a newspaper's police reporter to help the cold-case unit find a breakthrough on his brother's homicide.Much of it comes back to the investigation Rick was conducting as an APD detective into a cartel's drug distribution system. When he was fired for alcoholism, Rick drifted into homelessness. Andy wonders, did that happen because he already knew the street people he'd used as secret informants? And why has the case stalled? Is there a cartel mole in the police department? An ex-wife, the last of Rick's homeless drug informants, a cold-case detective he once loved, a pueblo tribal policeman, and a college history professor seem like an unlikely allies, but all help him untangle conflicting details about Rick's murder.To solve Rick's murder, Andy must first prove his own innocence when he becomes the suspect in the murders of a homeless man and a long-time reporter friend.And he must also clear up the confusion of whether Rick was murdered by the cartel for his investigation, or by a deranged man over a centuries-old Pueblo secret.A fast-paced mystery novel mixes western big city dynamics with Pueblo history and culture as a newspaper reporter tries to find his brother's killer.