Courtesy of a
bear and her two cubs, a man’s body is found up one of the many trails on
Sphinx Mountain in Montana. The body had been buried. Not far away, a second
body is found, also buried. Both had been shot. The autopsies show that body
men had been suffering from terminal diseases.
Sean Stranahan,
a transplanted New Englander making sort of a living as a guide for fly
fisherman, and doing some occasional detective work, is with local police when
the bodies are found. And then he’s hired by a local fly fisherman’s club to
find out what happened to two of the club’s prize antique flies, worth a fair
amount of money to collectors. As he talks to other people who live nearby, he
begins to stumble into information that’s important for the murder
investigations.
The
Gray Ghost Murders
is author Keith McCafferty’s second
installment in the Sean Stranahan mystery series (there are currently a total
of five; this one was published in 2013). Each are set in Montana; and each
reflect a fair amount of McCafferty’s extensive experience as the survival and
outdoor skills editor of Field &
Stream Magazine. And he lives in Montana.
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It’s also a
well-told mystery story, likely to appeal especially to people who enjoy fly
fishing and the mountainous outdoors.
Stranahan develops a romantic interest with a local barista at a coffee kiosk, and the sheriff has a personal interest in Stranahan as well, when she’s not involved with one deputies. When he lived in Massachusetts, he worked as a detective for a law firm, so he knows how to nose out information and ask questions. And soon enough he’ll find himself a target.
The Gray Ghost
Murders is well written and engrossing story, even for those of us who don’t
fish. McCafferty tells a ripping good yarn.
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