Alex MacLean

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Alex MacLean
Alex MacLean

Alex MacLean is the author of the Detective Allan Stanton series, which includes Grave Situation, One Kill Away, Sorrowful Road, and Into Thin Air. The next book in the series, The Quiet That Followed, will be released in September 2025. Alex is also the author of The Banished, an Acadian historical novel. 

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Into Thin Air

Book #4 from the series: Detective Allan Stanton

Seven people missing.
One cop dead.
Detective Audra Price knows it’s all connected—but how?

As she begins to piece this mystery together, she soon finds herself embroiled in an investigation that will upend her life.

Clues lead her to believe other cops are involved. But getting to the truth has just become that much harder and more dangerous....

The Banished

Annapolis Royal, 1755. When frontier tensions boil over, the people of Acadie find themselves caught between two warring empires. Hoping to remain neutral, the Acadians are shocked when the English government instead orders them rounded up and exiled, their lands forfeited and their homes burned.

Torn from his family, his home destroyed,...

Stanton: The Trilogy

Stanton, The Trilogy, includes:

Grave Situation (Book 1) - Halifax cop Allan Stanton is a troubled homicide detective who has lost everything, including his family and his sense of justice. When he finally decides to leave the force and start over, he’s assigned a string of murders that all bear the signs of a serial killer collecting trophies.
As...

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Cover reveal for The Quiet That Followed. Coming near the end of September

IN HALIFAX’S UNDERWORLD,

INNOCENCE IS CURRENCY—

AND BLOOD IS THE COST.

Detective Audra Price thought she knew her city.

Then a teenage girl is murdered,

and a hidden world of predators and lies surfaces.

Every clue is dangerous.

Every secret could kill.

And this darkness could consume her city—

and everyone she swore to protect.