Trilogy in Blue: From the Ashes, with T.A. Perry In his debut novel, Perry, a veteran detective with the Seattle Police Department, has created a fast-moving, action-packed, historical-based family saga. It is set in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s. Seattle is in the process of recovering from a devastating fire that destroyed the downtown core. A young man becoming a police officer in a city struggling for an identity will bring the Mitchell family to crises that will threaten to tear it apart. Marrying the niece of a atenderloina madam, Thad Mitchell deals with a psychotic killer, greed, graft and corruption that will endanger his life as well as his wife and child.