Sig. Alexander

Retired law enforcementMat-Su Valley, Alaska

Some casesstay with you.

Sig. Alexander spent thirty years in law enforcement. His books follow people at the edge: a boy with visions in a haunted Virginia house, a blinded young racer living rough in Anchorage, and a federal agent up against a cartel on the Arizona border.

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  • Literary Titan Book Award, Gold
  • StoryTrade Awards Finalist
  • Reviewed by Kirkus
Cover of Cardinal Down, Luke Sanz · Book 3
Cover of A Dance with the Bully, Luke Sanz · Book 2
Cover of Under the Sky, Luke Sanz · Book 1

Case index

The files

Every book, published or pending: three out now and three still on the desk. Start the series with File LS-01, or begin anywhere with Box Racer.

  1. LS-01
    Under the Sky Luke Sanz · Book 1
    Published Apr 28, 2024
    322 pages     4.5 / 550 Amazon ratings Buy
  2. LS-02
    A Dance with the Bully Luke Sanz · Book 2
    Published Oct 31, 2024
    306 pages     4.5 / 524 Amazon ratings Buy
  3. LS-03
    Cardinal Down Luke Sanz · Book 3
    Pending Not yet released Notify me
  4. AK-01
    Anchorage Box Racer Standalone · Literary Titan Book Award
    Published Dec 14, 2025
    299 pages     4.9 / 566 Amazon ratings Buy
  5. AK-02
    Basking in the Midnight Sun Short stories · Alaska
    Pending Not yet released Notify me
  6. AZ-01
    Thunderhead Wash Standalone · Arizona border
    Pending Not yet released Notify me

Form LS-01 · Page 1 of 1

Incident report

Case no. 2024-0428
Virginia

Subject
Luke Sanz, 17
Location
The family's new home, Virginia
Reported by
His brothers
Nature of incident
Haunting. Acquisitive spirit.
Known conditions
Anxiety. Visions of the past, present and future.
Origin
A house the author once lived in. Working title: "Red Hill Road Haunt."

Narrative

Luke Sanz is a seventeen-year-old kid plagued with anxiety and visions of events from the past, present, and future. His growing abilities threaten his fragile relationship with his parents. As the family settles into a new home in Virginia, his brothers realize it is haunted by an acquisitive spirit who demands more than they know. Death would be better than the damnation they all face. Luke is not alone. He is supported from beyond by a power greater than any one person.

File LS-02Luke Sanz · Book 2

A diverting thriller that tackles relatable adolescent issues with believable characterization.

Kirkus Reviews, on A Dance with the Bully
Cover of A Dance with the Bully.

A Dance with the Bully

Senior year at Lansburg Center High. Jimmy Cladhaire is out of jail and back in class, students start overdosing, and Luke has to choose between college and the Army while something worse moves through the halls.

306 pages · Published Halloween 2024

Continued in File LS-03, Cardinal Down

File AK-01StandaloneAnchorage

Anchorage Box Racer

Tayen Stormrider is sixteen, gifted behind the wheel and certain of it. Then he loses his sight and ends up in a homeless camp in Anchorage. A chance meeting with a police officer puts him back on the track, with NASCAR on the horizon.

Sig wrote it for the young people living rough on Anchorage's streets, to give them a story with a way out.

Award
Literary Titan Book Award, Gold (fiction)
Shortlist
StoryTrade Awards Finalist
Published
December 14, 2025 · 299 pages
Readers
Ages 16 and up
Buy Anchorage Box Racer
Cover of Anchorage Box Racer: a race car blurs past Alaskan mountains under yellow brush-script lettering.

Pending files

On the desk

Three books not yet released. Release dates go to the mailing list first.

Cover of Cardinal Down.

File LS-03Luke SanzBook 3

Cardinal Down

Luke Sanz is an Army Ranger now, attached to military intelligence and learning to use his visions in combat. Some of his dreams come clear. Others are symbols he still has to read.

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Basking in the Midnight Sun hardcover
Hardcover editionAK-02

File AK-02Short storiesAlaska

Basking in the Midnight Sun

A collection of short stories about resilience, sacrifice and endurance in Alaska, including "The Inlet" and "The Lonely Wingbeat of the Returning Geese."

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Cover of Thunderhead Wash.

File AZ-01StandaloneArizona border

Thunderhead Wash

A federal special agent, whose father was murdered in the 1990s, turns to his retired friends from the job after another agent is killed. Their stories from the old border start to mirror her case, and lead her toward a cartel.

Drawn from real line-of-duty deaths at Nogales in 1974 and 2010, on the border where Sig worked for twenty-four years.

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Sig. Alexander outdoors beside a row of old cannons, wearing a cap and sunglasses.
Alexander, Sig.Ret. Law enforcement, 30 yrsAlaska

Personnel file

Thirty years on the job.

Sig. Alexander grew up in New York, Virginia and Puerto Rico, and retired after a thirty-year career in law enforcement. He lives in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley with his wife and one crazy miniature dachshund.

Mornings go to writing in Scrivener. Evenings go to other people's books. Under the Sky started more than ten years ago as a way to describe a haunted house he once lived in.

Known associates
Stephen King, Vince Flynn, Ken Follett, Victor Gischler, Stephen Hunter, Thomas Harris
Off duty
Science fiction, paranormal films and books

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