title: In Search of Mattie Hackett: A True Maine Unsolved Murder Mystery
author: Emeric W. Spooner
description: Emeric W. Spooner lives and works in Central Maine. In his off time, he investigates Unsolved mysteries and Historical True Crime Cases. He also runs the website Maine Unsolved located at: http://home.myfairpoint.net/espooner/
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  Nothing Left to Lose
  
  
  A novel of murder, detection and revenge set in high-tech Seattle By Dick
  Lilly
  
  
  
  
  
  Hidden in plain sight, an industrial-scale meth lab in a former biotech
  building in Seattle’s tech hub quietly pumps out millions of carefully hidden
  profits for the head of one of the city’s old-line wealthy families. That is,
  until agents from an Afghan rebel group show up looking for a cut and bodies
  start washing up on Puget Sound beaches.
  
  
  It looks like smuggling – people or drugs – to the murder squad, but the cops
  can’t believe such a prominent citizen would be involved. It takes former
  journalist turned true-crime blogger Eric Falconer – narrowly escaping death
  himself in the heroin-sick alleys of Vancouver, B.C. – to connect the timber-
  family scion to the murders and a plot to destroy the re-election campaign of
  a popular governor.
  
  
  As the police finally close in, the head of the cartel disappears, murdered
  for revenge. Only Falconer will ever 