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A musical cold case has Cullen and Cobb back on the beat. On February 28, 1965, a young singer named Ellie Foster stepped into the alley behind The Depression, a Calgary folk club where she shared the bill with Joni Anderson, later to become famous as Joni Mitchell. During a cigarette break in the back alley, Ellie was forced into a car, and the musicians with her were shot and killed. The investigation that followed turned up no sign of the kidnappers, and Ellie Foster was never seen again. Now, more than fifty years after the singer's disappearance, Ellie's granddaughter approaches Cullen and Cobb to try to find out what happened to her grandmother. The search for the truth about Ellie Foster takes the two investigators straight into the past. They find themselves investigating a failed political assassination and discover that there are those who will stop at nothing, even a half-century later, to ensure that certain secrets remain untold.



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David A. Poulsen

Biography
David A. Poulsen has been a broadcaster, teacher, football coach, rodeo cowboy, stage and film actor and - most of all - writer. His writing career began in earnest when his story The Welcomin' won the 1984 Alberta Culture Short Story Competition. Now the author of more than 20 books, many for middle readers and young adults, David recently completed his Masters degree in Creative Writing at UBC. He divides his time between his small ranch in the Alberta foothills southwest of Calgary and a second home in Maricopa, Arizona. He was the recipient of an Alberta Centennial Medal in 2005 for "service to Alberta and Albertans."

In 2011 David's young adult novel Numbers was selected for the Sakura Medal (awarded by English speaking high school students in Japan to their favourite novel of the year) . As a result David toured International Schools in Japan and Korea in the fall of 2011. Numbers has since been added to the new English curriculum for Grade 10 in Saskatchewan. His 2013 novel, Old Man, a YA/Adult crossover novel was launched to excellent reviews from CanLit, CCBC, Quill and Quire and the National Post, among others. David served as the Writer in Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library in 2012/13.
But it's his latest book and first foray into the world of crime fiction that has him really excited. "Mystery has been my favourite genre for as long as I can remember but although I read mysteries voraciously, I always doubted that I'd be able to write one."Poulsen admits. "That maybe my mind didn't work in the ways the really good crime writers' minds do - people like Rankin, Kellerman, Connelly, Bowen and so many others that I admire. But I had an idea for what I thought might make an intriguing story and started playing with it and finally, after a lot of sweating, swearing and gnashing of teeth, I actually had my first crime novel."
The book is Serpents Rising, released by Dundurn Publishing in October, 2014 and launched in Toronto, Saskatoon and Calgary. The book hit #3 on the Saskatoon bestsellers list and #1 in Calgary in the final weeks of 2014.
"I'm hoping that the response to the book just might result in it being the first in a series - the Cullen and Cobb Mysteries." To that end, Poulsen is already hard at work on the follow-up book that re-unites journalist, Adam Cullen, and ex-cop turned private detective, Mike Cobb.



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