Polar Bear Dawn

Detective Callahan knows she’s right. But her superiors are intent on silencing her before she can prove murders in Canada and Alaska are connected. Will she stand her ground or be fired from the force?
As the media and police fight over the optics of the murders, Callahan’s instincts tell her there’s something more involved. The detective she reaches out to in Alaska is being pressured to wrap up his case in a tidy murder/suicide. She feels pressure from their bosses to come to conclusions that aren’t right. Will she bend under the orders of her superiors, or follow her convictions?
Callahan discovers a series of unlikely suspects. A Chemistry Professor with a grudge against big oil, a Mexican low life gangster and Wall Street Executives. How are they connected?
Something is about to happen to oil supplies in the Arctic. Callahan can sense it-can she convince others to act?
In this first in series novel, Detective Callahan puts everything on the line. If she fails, it could end her career in the police force.

LYLE NICHOLSON was born in British Columbia, Canada in 1952. He is the youngest of three sons born to a father who was a cook, and a mother who was a waitress. His father, who died when Lyle was 15, was a storyteller and an avid reader, something that Lyle adopted at an early age and never forgot. His life would lead him to travels in Europe, then five years in a Monastery. He found out he was not a good Monk, as poverty was easy-it was the chastity and obedience that was a bit of a stumbling block. He left the Monastery in 1979, and met and married his wife in 1982. There were several years where Lyle tried numerous businesses that either failed or he was fired. He hadn’t found his calling. Lyle spent two years working in the Security industry, providing Services and Systems for large oil companies in Calgary, Alberta, the nerve center for Canada’s oil. And then in 1988 he started his own company to sell safety work wear to oil companies in Canada and Alaska. His company was a success, and he retired in 2011, and began a career in writing. Writing was always one of his passions. He now lives in Kelowna, British Columbia with his wife of thirty plus years, where he indulges in his second career of writing, fine cooking and fine wines.