The North Star Cafe - Paperback

by Chinle Miller (Author)

When Utah Sheriff Bud Shumway decides to attend a family wedding in Alaska, he has no idea what awaits him, especially after his geologist friend Shorty buys an old pair of native mukluks with a mysterious heritage. Bud is soon drawn into a world he'd rather not visit, the world of imaginary shapeshifting creatures called kushtakas-or are they real?

And the deeper he gets into the Alaskan wilds, the more questions he finds himself asking: How can someone find a ghost, yet alone part of one? What's really going on with people disappearing in the dangerous mudflats of Knik Arm? What happened to the missing museum director? How does one steal an airplane? Why does everything smell like peppermint? And where did all the corgis come from?

And of course, Bud's friends Mayor Howie and Shorty are along for the ride, dispensing their questionable wisdom and analyses as the story unfolds, the young railroad graffiti artist called Chance also adding his two-bits' worth while Bud's wife's cousin Juno takes it all in stride, including his fiancé calling off the wedding.

A ghost of a different kind, a mysterious hangar full of airplane parts, priceless native mukluks that even the natives don't want, and the North Star Cafe, which appears to be the central location for people to disappear, and who could ask for more intrigue and adventure in the untrammeled wilds of Alaska?

This is book #23 in the Bud Shumway Mystery Series.