I designed the cover and interior of What Happened in Craig in Adobe inDesign. The front cover was edited in Adobe Photoshop, compositing a series of images to evoke the place and tone of the book with the map of Craig, Alaska and the ghost of the fire on a fishing schooner.
The interior design incorporates a series of images that are presented as a photo gallery at the beginning of each of the three sections of the book.
I also wrote the back cover description for this title.
On a foggy afternoon in September of 1982 the Investor, a salmon fishing vessel, was engulfed in flames near the tiny village of Craig, Alaska. All efforts to stop the blaze were repulsed by the heat and fury of fire—until the blaze had run its course. Eight people, including a pregnant woman and two small children, were missing.
On the charred wreck of the Investor, troopers hoped to find evidence that the fire was accidental, and that the crew and family were away from the scene. Instead, they found bullet-ridden bodies. The investigation of the case and arrest of a former crewmember of the Investor became a nationwide sensation, with headlines appearing in the New York Times and People Magazine. John Kenneth Peel, a Bellingham fisherman was the center of the investigation and eventual trials for murder and arson. Convoluted motivations, family secrets, a lawyer bent on protecting his client, family members of the victims seeking answers swirl into a story only one person can know—and he isn’t telling.
Aubrey L White 