In the remote Alaskan bush

a young police chief battles the freezing weather, treacherous landscapes, and dangerous wild animals as he investigates a suspicious suicide.
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Surviving off the grid

requires knowing more than just basic survival skills, but ultimately deciding who to trust.
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The colorful cast of characters

includes bush pilots, outlaws, wild locals, and mysterious Native men and women.
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Bush Blues

Chief Snow is a young police chief in the remote Alaska bush village of Togiak. After a plane crash strands him in the frozen bush, he begins investigating a suspicious suicide of a man in the local village. Bush Blues is stark, realistic, and humorous look, not only of the life of a police officer out on the edge of civilization, but also of the people who live 'off the grid'.

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"There is a chilling honesty to Sheldon Schmitt’s Bush Blues, like the snapping of a twig or the charging of a shotgun in the crisp Alaska air.”

—Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mystery Series
"Bush Blues marks the debut of an Alaskan crime solver as true and flawed as the state itself."

-- Tom Begich, Alsaka Senator

 

 

 

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-- Tom Begich, Alsaka Senator

"Bush Blues marks the debut of an Alaskan crime solver as true and flawed as the state itself."

Meet the Author

"I cut my teeth as a cop working out in the villages. I have a real love for the people and the life out on the edge."

Bush Blues is Shel Schmitt's first book and is based on his years of experience working in Alaska as a police officer, fisherman and other jobs out in the bush. He is currently the Chief of Police in Sitka, Alaska.

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