Five Fingers and Seven Dead Fish

Idaho game warden Charley Cove knows the wilderness better than most men know themselves—every trail, every shadow, every creature that roams the land. But something is wrong in the mountains. A cryptic warning, a shadow in the trees, and the unshakable feeling that he’s being watched. Then he’s accused of a murder he didn’t commit. Someone is hunting him, twisting the evidence, turning his own expertise against him. Charley has spent his life protecting these lands—but now he must outwit a predator who knows exactly how to set a trap. This book is the third in a series.

Idaho game warden Charlie Cove is back. He's strapped with post-traumatic stress from events chronicled in the debut novel, Five Fingers. Cove is called to an accident scene by a small-town sheriff to help investigate a morbid discovery. In the meantime, Charlie is perplexed by a different problem - dead fish. The sheriff keeps trying to drag him into what he has assumed is a homicide, while Cove struggles to solve his own mystery. And all the while, a demoniacal antagonist dances in the shadows.

This white-knuckled tale is about Idaho game warden Charley Cove struggling to stop a bloody string of deer shot and left in the snow. He's stymied by a lackadaisical prosecutor and a questionable deputy - the tug of two cultures running through his veins seem to be pulling him in different directions. Cove uncovers evidence that ties the shooter to crimes against people, and unknown to the warden, his bad guy is about to come unglued and drag his bloodbath into a nightmare for a two-legged victim.