Missing Person Story set in Austria

[Johanna]

In August of 1989, twenty-three-year-old Duncan MacPherson—a pro hockey player from Canada—vanished without a trace in Central Europe. To his parents, Lynda and Bob, nothing about his disappearance made sense. With no help from the police, they drove all over the Alps looking for their son, and then finally found his car parked near the gondola station of the Stubai Glacier, a popular glacier ski resort in Austria.
Thus began their twenty-two year struggle to find out why Duncan had disappeared—a true story as strange and full of unexpected twists as a season of The Twilight Zone.

In 2009 they asked the American author John Leake to help them in their ongoing search for answers.

Now, after a two-year investigation, Leake has finally discovered what happened to Duncan MacPherson, and why his death was covered up by the Stubai Glacier ski resort and by high ranking officials in Innsbruck, Austria.

His new book, Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery recounts the tragic odyssey of the MacPherson family. It is  a story about enduring love, perseverance, and the irrepressible desire to know.  It is also the story of an incredibly elaborate and twisted deception.

Leake’s findings are the subject of the television documentary A Cold Case, produced by the fifth estate—Canada’s premier investigative journalism program, which will air on November 25, 2011. http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/

Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery will be available for purchase on Amazon on November 25, 2011.