Cold Tracks

The land keeps its own records. She's learned to read them.

When a wealthy Texas oil executive is found dead below a Wind River ridgeline, the Wyoming sheriff calls it an accident. The terrain is brutal, the victim was inexperienced, and the case is closed before the ravens have finished their work.

Evelyn Cross calls it something else.

Raised on trap lines and hunting camps in the shadow of Wyoming's Wind River Range, Evelyn can read terrain the way other people read a clock. When Wyoming's Division of Criminal Investigation recruits her as a wilderness consultant, she follows the evidence from the backcountry into the political economy of Jackson Hole's land market - and toward a killer who used her family's tools, her family's drainage, and twenty years of patience to commit a murder that was never supposed to be seen for what it was.

Evelyn is not a detective. She doesn't carry a badge. She carries the knowledge of someone who has spent her life learning to follow things past the comfortable point - and the cold understanding that the most dangerous predators are the ones who know the ground as well as you do.

Cold Tracks is the first book in the Blood & Basin trilogy - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery series set in the Wyoming wilderness.