Trail of Murder
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
It began with a phone call about a phone call.
For Lee Squires, this particular phone call couldn't have come at a better time. English professor, poet, and professional house-sitter, Lee is wallowing in the heat and humidity of a Washington, D.C., summer and in the self-pity and depression that have been shadowing her life for some time.
It seems that a friend of hers has given her name to Pete Bonsecours, a Montana wilderness outfitter desperately in need of a replacement cook for an upcoming trail ride across the Continental Divide. Lee is more than ready for a change of pace, so it doesn't take much to convince her to sign on as the new cook.
Within days Lee is on her way out to Montana and the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Armed with everything from sleeping bag, long underwear, bathing suit, and sunscreen to her old cast-iron Dutch oven and a thermos filled with sourdough starter, Lee is ready for anything—anything but murder.
Filled with the fascinating details of a full-blown trail ride and the gripping suspense of a taut murder mystery.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A spellbinding plot, a valiant heroine and a majestic setting make this debut hard to put down. Lee Squires, a divorced English teacher and poet who is at loose ends, signs on as cook when wealthy Cyrus Strand takes his family and his lawyer on a horseback trip through Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness. The trip seems jinxed from the first day, when Strand's model-handsome adopted son Henry and his horse survive a 100-foot fall off the trail. Although shaken, the party continues, their squabbles increasing in proportion to their distance from civilization. After Cyrus is thrown from his horse, Lee discovers that a strap on his saddle had been cut. Then the pack mules are spooked and disperse, and Lee is left with the family while the guides undertake a search. Cyrus announces he has written a new will that leaves all his estate to his current, third wife; that afternoon he is fatally poisoned, and everyone scrambles to find the document. When another murder is committed, Lee realizes she must flush out the killer if they hope to get out of the wilderness alive. This treacherous journey offers thrills to armchair adventurers and wilderness buffs as well as mystery fans.
