A DEATH IN EDEN

By Keith McCafferty

Fans of the Sean Stranahan mysteries will be thrilled with this newest title!

We begin with a child named Mary Louise. She and her family are sleeping at one of the designated campsites along the Smith River. Needing to go to the loo in the middle of the night, she and her mother head out into this bear-infested territory, and end up seeing something far more frightening than any bear.

What the little girl reports to State Investigator Harold Little Feather is that she was chased by a scarecrow. Although this seems a bit odd, it starts to make sense when many people spot scarecrow-like effigies placed all along the river. Not only that, but there are words of warning posted in regards to a location called Smith Mine. Someone, some group perhaps, wants to use menacing words to stop a proposed copper-mining project that, if allowed, will harm the purity of the water in Smith River and destroy this crown jewel of trout streams.

But what seems like an ecological attack at first turns bloody when a decapitated body is found in the river. Harold finds himself going back through the past in order to solve the crimes that are occurring in the present.

However, Harold is not the only one “sailing” this waterway. Sean Stranahan has been hired to be a guide for a strange group: the manager of this supposed copper-mine project, and the president of the grass roots organization devoted to stopping the project. This odd duo is together because they are working on a documentary that will show their two completely different views on this matter…and what they’re both willing to do in order to succeed.

Readers will gasp as they watch these two tales come together and a dangerous moment play out within these canyon walls. Yet again, Keith McCafferty has hit a home run!