A Long Time Gone
It's time to put the past to rest…
Ben Packard was just a boy when his older brother disappeared. Ben watched him walk out the back door of their grandparents' house and into the cold night.
His brother was never seen again.
Decades later, Deputy Packard finds himself with too much time on his hands. A shooting has him on leave and under investigation, and all he can do is dwell on the past. For the first time in years, new information about his brother has surfaced that may lead them to the location of a body.
The midwinter ground is frozen solid. Worse, Packard is cut off from department resources. As he strikes out to finally uncover the truth behind his brother's disappearance, he stumbles on a separate, suspicious death. A tenuous connection exists between the two cases, and as Packard starts to dig, he meets fierce resistance from friends and foes alike who want him to stand down.
The winter is long and cold. By the end of it, Packard will risk everything to catch a killer and reveal the shocking truth about his brother.
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Joshua Moehling
Joshua Moehling writes crime fiction with a keen eye for both the shadowy depths of human nature and the quiet complexities of everyday life. Raised as an Army brat, he spent much of his childhood moving across the U.S. and Germany, before finding a home in Minneapolis. It’s in this varied landscape of experiences—marked by the stark realities of both rural America and the undercurrents of military life—that Joshua developed a fascination with stories that dwell in the gray areas of justice, morality, and identity.
Ben Packard
In the small, seemingly quiet town of Sandy Lake, where everyone knows everyone’s business, Deputy Ben Packard serves as both protector and reluctant observer of a community that hides as much as it reveals. The Ben Packard series pulls readers into a world where the shadows of the past stretch long, and nothing is as simple as it seems.
Ben Packard consists of four books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
