The Long Rain
(2027)(The seventh book in the Pacific Northwest K-9 Mystery series)
A novel by Sophie Lyon
An atmospheric river. A body ruled accidental in twelve hours. A sealed evidence case the storm exposed instead of erasing.
Cedric Capoeman was found face-down in a flooded access road on Quinault tribal land.
The atmospheric river had been dropping fifteen inches in forty-eight hours. Roads had become rivers. Bridges had disappeared. Hillsides had liquefied. The county emergency management office ruled the death an accidental flood casualty within twelve hours. The case was closed before it opened.
Kate Soren and Scout were deployed for standard flood SAR.
Three years on the Olympic Peninsula, six cases behind her, and Kate has learned that an atmospheric river is not weather, it is terrain. Water is the ground. The rain shreds air scent. Standing water erases ground scent. Wind disrupts every cue she’s spent six books learning to read. The deck is stacked against any K-9 working in these conditions. Almost any.
A mudslide on a destabilized riverbank exposes a sealed waterproof case wedged into a collapsed root system. Cedric Capoeman was a Quinault Tribal Council member. The case contains three years of permit-fraud documentation, names, dates, signatures. The same names that have surfaced in cases since Kate’s second autumn on the Peninsula.
The murder is not new.
The corruption is not new.
What’s new is that Cedric anticipated his own silencing and designed the evidence to survive it. The storm was supposed to bury him. The storm exposed his voice instead.
THE LONG RAIN is the seventh book in Sophie Lyon’s Pacific Northwest K-9 Mysteries, the most rain-saturated, jurisdictionally complex book in Arc One. The Prescott corruption thread surfaces fully here. For fans of Margaret Mizushima, Sara Driscoll, and Dana Stabenow.
What readers will find:
Cedric Capoeman was found face-down in a flooded access road on Quinault tribal land.
The atmospheric river had been dropping fifteen inches in forty-eight hours. Roads had become rivers. Bridges had disappeared. Hillsides had liquefied. The county emergency management office ruled the death an accidental flood casualty within twelve hours. The case was closed before it opened.
Kate Soren and Scout were deployed for standard flood SAR.
Three years on the Olympic Peninsula, six cases behind her, and Kate has learned that an atmospheric river is not weather, it is terrain. Water is the ground. The rain shreds air scent. Standing water erases ground scent. Wind disrupts every cue she’s spent six books learning to read. The deck is stacked against any K-9 working in these conditions. Almost any.
A mudslide on a destabilized riverbank exposes a sealed waterproof case wedged into a collapsed root system. Cedric Capoeman was a Quinault Tribal Council member. The case contains three years of permit-fraud documentation, names, dates, signatures. The same names that have surfaced in cases since Kate’s second autumn on the Peninsula.
The murder is not new.
The corruption is not new.
What’s new is that Cedric anticipated his own silencing and designed the evidence to survive it. The storm was supposed to bury him. The storm exposed his voice instead.
THE LONG RAIN is the seventh book in Sophie Lyon’s Pacific Northwest K-9 Mysteries, the most rain-saturated, jurisdictionally complex book in Arc One. The Prescott corruption thread surfaces fully here. For fans of Margaret Mizushima, Sara Driscoll, and Dana Stabenow.
What readers will find:
- An atmospheric river rendered with full meteorological authenticity
A tribal-sovereignty jurisdictional standoff at the heart of the case
K-9 work in the most adverse scent conditions of the series
The series antagonist arc fully visible, every prior name connects
Cozy contract honored, no graphic on-page violence
The dog always comes home.
One-click THE LONG RAIN now and read the case the rain was supposed to wash away.
Genre: Cozy Mystery