Cold Hearted River

The sixth novel in the acclaimed Sean Stranahan mystery seriesfeaturing Montana's favorite fly fisherman-detective. Buffalo Jump Blues, fifth in the series, is now available. Cold Hearted River is a story of lost treasure that begins with the death of a woman, stranded in a spring snowstorm, who in desperation climbs into a bear's den. When Sheriff Martha Ettinger, reunited with once-again lover and sometime private detective Sean Stranahan, investigates, she finds a fly wallet in a pannier of the dead woman's horse, the leather engraved with the initials EH. Only a few days before, Patrick Willoughby, the president of the Madison River Liars and Fly Tiers Club, had been approached by a man selling fishing gear that he claims once belonged to Ernest Hemingway. A coincidence? Sean doesn't think so, and he soon finds himself on the trail of a missing steamer trunk rumored to contain not only the famous writer's valuable fly fishing gear, but...