The series is set in Seattle where Tracy is a detective. Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington.
The body of the woman whose murder Tracy investigates is found in Puget Sound. Puget Sound is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and two minor connections to the open Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de Fuca—Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and Deception Pass and Swinomish Channel being the minor.
Andrea Strickland, the woman whose body is thought to be the one found in Puget Sound, lived in Portland with her husband. Portland is a city of regional importance to the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Andrea was thought to have died when in Mount Rainier National Park. Mount Rainier National Park is an American national park located in southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County in Washington state.
Andrea and Graham were supposed to climb Liberty Ridge. Mount Rainier is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range. The broad top of Mount Rainier contains three named summits. The highest is called the Columbia Crest. The second highest summit is Point Success, 4,315 m. The lowest of the three summits is Liberty Cap, 4,301 m, at the northwestern edge, which overlooks Liberty Ridge, the Sunset Amphitheater, and the dramatic Willis Wall.
The problems between Andrea and Graham started when he wanted to set up a marijuana dispensary when the drug was legalized . Cannabis in Oregon is legal for both medical and recreational use. In recent decades, the U.S. state of Oregon has had a number of legislative, legal, and cultural events surrounding use of cannabis (marijuana, hashish, THC, kief, etc.). Oregon was the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cannabis, and among the first to authorize its use for medical purposes. In 2015, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed an emergency bill declaring marijuana sales legal to recreational users from dispensaries starting October 1, 2015. Effective January 1, 2017, dispensaries were no longer permitted to sell cannabis for recreational use unless they applied for, and received, an OLCC license for such sales. During the one-month span from early December 2016 to early January 2017, the number of retailers licensed to sell recreational marijuana grew from 99 to 260, and hundreds more applications had been received and were being processed.
Andrea’s aunt lives in San Bernardino, California.
Fazz contacts a skip tracer he knows in the investigation. Skiptrace is the process of locating a person’s whereabouts. A skip tracer is someone who performs this task, which may be the person’s primary occupation.
Renton is the city where Andrea opened accounts, using her fake identity. Renton is a city in Washington, and an inner-ring suburb of Seattle, situated 18 km southeast of downtown Seattle.
Alki Point Lighthouse is where Dan proposes to Tracy and where they get married. The Alki Point Light is an active aid to navigation located on Puget Sound’s Alki Point, the southern entrance to Seattle’s Elliott Bay.
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